Lessons Taught By Instructor Support Leaders and Managers
From July 1, 2010, all instructor support leaders and managers (who are on a fixed salary and receive no additional compensation for teaching lessons) are required to teach a number of regular Gaba lessons per month in an effort to save costs. The current range is between 25 and 50 depending on the size of the LS and workload of the individual instructor support leader; it was lowered slightly in October 2010. FMs (trial lessons) are considered as lessons taught, so if the instructor support leader teaches a number of FMs within a given month (a duty that existed before the new requirements), they may not actually teach many regular lessons. The number of lessons they teach are considered when their bonuses are calculated, but they are not paid for the lessons, so they are essentially doing them for free in addition to their regular work. This was done to save costs and to keep the instructor support leaders familiar with and proficient at teaching the Gaba curriculum. Concerns have been expressed that this practice may reduce the number of lessons available to itaku contract instructors. In order to minimize this issue, instructor support leaders are urged by Gaba management to open lessons only when no instructor is available to teach, whenever possible. However, for studios with many open spaces on the schedule, this may not be possible.
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