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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Planning (and making) lessons is not part of the job?
Having to pay for resources using your own money?
Working 10 hours extra a week without payment?
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As far as I can tell, things vary a lot between schools. For example, some time is provided for planning and assessment. It is sufficient for schools where students are performing near grade level and when the school has resources that reflect the ability of their students. The thing is, that breaks down when schools have multilevel classrooms or classrooms where students are performing well below grade level. Those are the cases where teachers have to create multiple plans based upon small groupings, and develop or acquire their own resources. That is time consuming and the teachers are expected to do the extra work without extra compensation.
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In the Netherlands, as a teacher you eventually earn less than you could have earned when working for a company, but there are some advantages, such as more holidays, higher starter salaries (but a lower cap), much more schooling options than you'd have in most companies, and last but not least, *way* more freedom as you have in most companies.
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Those benefits hold true in Canada, though there are some very high costs associated with teaching if you end up teaching in the wrong school. With schools being pressured to integrate students of all abilities into age-grouped classrooms, that situation is quite common. With schools being told to do more with stagnating budgets, while simultaneously being pressured to follow high technology fads, that situation is quite common. (To give you an example: my last school told me to buy chapter books and novels for students out of my own pocket, while spending thousands of dollars on interactive whiteboards that students were not supposed to touch.)
So yeah, the whole system is a bit wonky.