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CHAPTER 4: THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2007 SALARY REFORM AT SCHOOL LEVEL
Joint Order #307/91/237:
On adopng the procedure to set the work norms of kindergarten and general educaon school teachers, and to
calculate and discharge the salaries of teachers and certain other officials
Secon Two.
10. The weekly hours of a school and kindergarten teacher shall be 40 hours.
11. A school teacher shall complete works equal to 34 hours of implemenng the standards and other
work equal to 6 hours in a week. 19 of the 34 hours corresponding to the works to implement standards
shall be designated for teaching hours. 3
Joint Order #307/91/237, quoted above, further elaborates on the definion of overme: payment for
overme is considered, as was before, if a teacher teaches beyond the 19 hours of statutory teaching
load. In this case, the teacher is compensated in accordance with Arcle 53 of the Labor Law.
The interview queson on the minimum and maximum number of teaching hours yielded unreliable
answers because both managers and teachers avoided speaking about excessive teaching loads. The
research team therefore used the teacher weekly work schedule to retrieve informaon on how many
hours the teachers at the school were teaching on average. In addion, the research team gathered data
on the lowest and highest teaching load assigned to teachers in the school. The data were collected for
all four terms in the school year in recognion that the weekly teaching hours may vary by term.
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Average teaching hours: On the average, teachers teach 20.4 hours per week—that is, teachers make
approximately 1.4 hours of overme per week for addional teaching and earn therefore slightly more
than two hours more in addion to their base salary. 26 The supplementary income from these addional
hours amounts to 3,860 MNT per week or 15,442 MNT per month. 27
Lowest and highest teaching hours per week: On average, the lowest teaching assignment in the
examined schools was 15.7 hours and the highest was 25.6 hours per week. As shown in Table 11, there
were a few outliers, that is, teachers who taught far more than 25.6 hours (up to 39 hours) and others
who taught significantly less than 25.6 hours (9 hours per week is the minimum).
26 Each hour of addional teaching is mulplied with 1.5. The exact formula of Arcle 53 of the Labor Law is listed in Joint Order
#307/91/237 (August 2007: Secon 3, Point 24): Basic salary/168 hours x 1.5 x hours exceeding 19 hours).
27 We used the average of 1.4 addional hours. For two full addional hours, the addional income would be—depending on the
base salary—in the range of 21,316 MNT to 25,011 MNT per month.
TEACHERS IN MONGOLIA: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON RECRUITMENT INTO TEACHING,
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND RETENTION OF TEACHERS
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