The bar charts below show the number of hours each teacher spent teaching in different schools in four different countries in 2001.

The graph summarises information about

hours

spent on teaching by educators in different educational establishments in Japan,Spain, Iceland and the USA.

Overall

, the most time-consuming one was an upper secondary school across all four countries(from 700 in Japan to almost 1200 in the USA ) and the least number of

hours

was spent by primary school teachers, which fluctuated around 600 in all groups. It is worth noting that all countries followed the same pattern. Looking into details, the most devoted were tutors in America with just under 1200

hours

for high school,more than 900 in lower secondary and just above 600 for

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reception . Spain and Iceland,

however

, are second highest with 900

hours

for senior classes, and approximately 600 for primary. Though there were some differences for the lower secondary group: whilst Spanish coaches spent around 700

hours

on teaching,Iceland ones spent only 600. Turning to Japan,the number of time spent on teaching for all age groups varied from around 600

hours

.

To sum up

all of the above, the leader among these four countries was the USA, whilst Japanese teachers devoted the least amount of time.