Together full-time for the group with 0,9 FTE
That 1 + 1 is not always 2 is clear for Sanne and Eva. They are duo colleagues in a kindergarten group. They teach all classes together, but have a combined working time factor of 0,9. How is this possible?
Picture: Nanne Meulendijks
There is a difference in the number of hours of education that children receive in the first four school years and in the last four school years of primary education: at least 3520 hours in the lower years and 3760 hours in the upper years. That's a total of 7280 hours. A minimum of 7520 hours of education must be provided over eight school years. The remaining 240 hours that are not attributed to the lower or upper school must be divided among the buildings themselves.
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This means that on balance a teacher in the lower years has to teach fewer lessons than a teacher in the upper years. However, this does not necessarily have to be the case, because that depends on the division that a school assigns to these hours.
Grey area
In practice, can a school hire a teacher or two pairs of colleagues in the lower years for less than 1,0 FTE, or a working time factor of less than 1,0? Or is this not allowed? The answer to this lies in a gray area. If you look purely at the above-mentioned teaching hours standard, you can say as an employer that you can manage with less than 1,0 FTE. After all, it's not banned.
Boomerang
In practice, however, it turns out to be unruly. The profession of teacher is more than just teaching. By (actually) cutting back on other tasks, the teaching profession is being eroded. Those tasks will not disappear, but will probably end up on the plate of other colleagues. This in turn creates additional work pressure. In this way, the 'economy' comes back to the employer like a boomerang.
This story was published in the Education magazine of the AOb† Members receive the magazine in their mailbox every month. Become a member!
