Band 6+: The bar chart compares the number of hours spent by teachers working at primary, lower secondary and upper secondary schools in Japan, Spain, Iceland and the USA in 2001

The bar chart compares the number of hours spent by teachers working at primary, lower secondary and upper secondary schools in Japan, Spain, Iceland and the USA in 2001

Overall, American teachers worked the longest hours in all types of schools. Moreover, a similar trend was experienced in all countries with upper secondary school teachers spending more time than primary and lower secondary schools.

To begin with primary school teachers, they worked almost 600 hours in Japan and Iceland, while those in Spain and the USA had considerably greater working hours – 650 and 750.

As for lower secondary schools, Japanese teachers allocated an average of 650 hours at work, making it slightly higher than Iceland at 600 hours. While Spanish educators in this type of school had 750 working hours in 2001, it was equal to 1000 hours in the USA.

Additionally, upper secondary school teachers showed average teaching hours of 1200 in the USA, followed by Spain and Iceland at 900 hours. At 700 hours, teachers in Japan’s schools spent the smallest amount of time.