Band 6+: The bar chart compares the number of hours spent on various categories of teaching by teachers in different countries in 2001.

The bar chart gives the information about the variety of teaching hours in 4 different countries in 2001: Japan, Spain, Ireland and USA.

Overall, upper-secondary method was the main one, while Primary one was was least-used across these 4 countries. But Ireland had a little bit different situation when lower Secondary way was mostly used.

In 2001, Japan, as the country that had the lowest number of teaching hours, had accounted for only around 2000 educational hours. Both Primary and Lower Secondary had 600 teaching hours, while Upper Secondary, as the main method, had approximately 700. In Spain was the same situation, where Upper Secondary education was used much more than two others – almost 1000 and only 600 hours respectively.

Ireland was the only country, where these three ways of studying were almosrt at the same level. Primary – 600, Lower Secondary – 800, and Upper Secondary – a bit lower than 800 hours. And the USA accounted for the highest number of teaching hours, over 3000 in total. Primary – 800, Lower Secondary – just over a thousand, and Upper Secondary – 1200 hours.