Teachers in Singapore work 46 hours per week, more than global average: survey

SINGAPORE — Teachers in Singapore are typically younger and better trained than their peers in other countries but they tend to work longer hours, a survey has found.

Teachers here were found to spend 18 hours a week teaching, compared with the survey’s average of 21 hours, followed by 7.5 hours spent marking their students’ work and 7.2 hours spent preparing lessons. This year’s survey was conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development between September and October 2017. It polled 3,280 lower secondary teachers and 167 principals from 157 public schools and a random selection of 12 private schools in Singapore.

Similarly, over nine in 10 here work in multicultural schools that implement all four diversity practices presented in the survey, including organising multicultural events, supporting activities or organisations that encourage students’ expression of ethnic and cultural identities as well as teaching them how to deal with ethnic and cultural discrimination.

Singapore is one of four education systems in which more than half of novice teachers – defined by OCED as those with five or fewer years of teaching experience – have an assigned mentor compared with the survey average of 22 per cent. “We have been reviewing and will be reviewing more to see what more professional development programmes that our teachers can undergo to make them more effective in supporting students with more special needs.”

Of those surveyed, 45 per cent said they make their students work in small groups; 43 per cent let their students use information and communications technology for projects or class work. Meanwhile, 34 per cent said they give their students projects that require one week to complete.

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