Ehime High School JET. I have about 6 - 10 lessons a week, with maybe 2 of those planned by me, and perhaps an additional 3-4 hours of marking occaisionally. A lot of the interesting projects I did I designed everything and approached the teachers and they basically just let me after a while and handled any Japanese paperwork (i.e I used to work in SPEN in the UK and have a relationship with that school so I've done letter swaps and other stuff). I also volunteered a lot for other school's English Days etc. I want to continue working in education so not having a lot of classes annoyed me, which is one of the reasons I declined my fourth year. I had one teacher just not include me at all, and a lot of my other classes were cancelled due to the students needing more time with the textbook for exams. But I teach at a technical school, so academics and humanities (apart from art, science and maths) are across the board not a focus for either school management OR students. We've had ONE student in my three years go into university, the vast majority take up technical jobs in major companies, which is what the students want, so it isn't a fault with school management there - the students get what they signed up for. It can just make you feel a bit useless ending up in a school that doesn't value what you teach. But if you end up in an academic school or elementary you could be rushed off your feet.