The Handwork teacher

I am a mother to two beautiful girls and I teach Handwork and Fine Arts in our local waldorf charter school in Arizona.

Monday, April 5, 2010

part time pay for handwork teachers!!!! NO WAY!

http://www.waldorfteachers.com/job/1868/handwork-teacher-at-taos-country-day-school/


http://www.waldorfteachers.com/job/1756/part-time-handwork-teachers-needed-at-pasadena-waldorf-school/
 
Shame on all those schools who are paying part time salaries to Handwork teachers who teach 1-8th grade
when class teachers work the same hours and get full time pay
SHAME ON THEM!!!!!

Teachers don't stand for it!

IT'S A BUNCH OF BS!!! especially for those teacher who paid $12,000 plus room and board and airfare for their teacher training!

Don't do it! tell them its BS!

Handwork teachers need full time pay. we work our asses off!!!!! 





4 comments:

Cadi said...

You do. The prep time is enormous. Just teaching my class handwork this year I can see that there's a lot of time involved. It takes me 45 minutes to sew up a gnome. Multiply that by 15...

Pam de Groot said...

That's just Bizarre! A teacher is a teacher. same training, same pay!

Theresa said...

You are speakin' my language here, sistah...I work for next to nothing, no benefits, no job security...why would I want to dedicate myself to this profession at this rate? Soooo, this may be my last year, although I may hold on to it until my son graduates from high school. This has been my argument since I started...how am I payed so little for having as many teaching hours as a grades teacher? It makes no sense and certainly makes me feel not very respected. I may move on to just subbing next year.....

sara said...

I agree completely. It is insane that a teacher who teaches quite as many hours, and prepares for even more, as a class teacher, should not receive the same pay and benefits. It has always been our goal as a school to pay subject teachers a full salary for a 1-8 curriculum, but the fact of the matter is that while we have grades 1 - 8 at our school, we are down to 5 classes (1, 2, 3/4, 5/6, and 7/8), and the handwork teacher teaches 2 lessons each week per class...