Overworked and Underpaid - Teacher Tilden Preparatory Employee Review

Thank you for your review. If you worked at Tilden for 3 years, your salary would currently be somewhere between $35-37/hr for teaching regular classes and $5/hr more for teaching AP classes. If you provided 40 hours of availability, the average hours you would be paid for is 36.9 hours for every week of the 52 weeks in the year. This past year, the average salary for teachers providing this amount of availability for a year was $65,000. The teacher writing this review was likely providing 35 hours per week and didn't work in the summer. Tilden has no control over how teachers use prep time -- teachers are welcome to use their prep hours in whatever way they want. Tilden does sometimes schedule subbing or other work assignments during hours when a student has cancelled the class, since teachers are always paid in full for all cancellations. Regardless of whether other work is scheduled, some cancellations will likely be for teachers to use as they wish and some will be scheduled with subbing or other work. Tilden administrators have no desire to micromanage. We are all really busy working to meet the needs of students and teachers on campus. We encourage new teachers to talk to their Head of School or our Special Education Director whenever they want -- we love to collaborate with you! It's only in an effort to be consistent with everyone that we send out "friendly reminders" (which are not discipline) and it's only when a persistent pattern occurs of not following policies that progressive discipline occurs.