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How many classes do you find to be too much to teach in one week ?. 16, 20, 27, 30 ,40?
12 years 19 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
Any more than 15- 40 min classes a week and i have had enough....
Anything over 25 - 26 and my mind starts to turn to mush.
After about twenty I go into a steep decline. Right now I'm doing a max twenty-five and if I do actually do that number the last few are usually a grind.
I worked at a school where the contract said thirty, but in reality it was as many as fifty-two. By about eight months through the contract I had a major nervous breakdown that I've never quite recovered from.
Yeah I think more than 20, 1 hour classes or 25, 45 min classes would be too much.
25 is the max that they are allowed to make you teach under Chinese labor law. Some companies like Wallstreet get around that law by making you work 6 days a week.
I have taught as many as 40 a week when i was freelancing but that is something that was done to make money and no other reason, after 3 yeasr of that schedule I quietly retired for abour 6 months to get my mind back.
25 a week is very grulling and will burn you out very quickly. If they are all at the same school then you start to go a little mad after about a year of it because sometime you are teaching the same lesson 5 times a day.
The most I get is 7 a day. But sometimes I only get 3! If I get 3 one day then I can be sure they'll dump extra classes on me later in the week. -_-
I teach 16 40-minute classes here at the college, which was overwhelming when I first got here, but I'm used to it now. That is basically 8 different classes of students, and I see them once a week. For one of my part time jobs, I teach 4 times a week, 1.5 hours (so that's about 8 more classes). My other part time job, I only "taught" 3 hours every other week. In reality it is only games with little children. So I had, what...the equivalent of 24-25 classes (plus 3 hours every other week) a week? I was definitely feeling it, and I probably won't work that part time job anymore. That's my limit, because for a while I taught the second part time job every week and an additional 2 classes for the other part time job every week and I was going crazy.
Compared to the part time job at home, it sounds like no big deal. But after you add in the prep time, the fact that you repeat the same lessons, and have to deal with a lot of students who don't even want to participate in class, it drains the life out of you.
25 is full load, but managable if you dont have to do much prep. That is what I teach per week, but the cirriculum is already set out, so just making a few copies and a quick run is enough to get ready after you have taught that lesson a couple times.
I did a winter intensive of 8hrs/6days a week, pay was nice, but the quality of the teaching is just gone out the window, along with your energy
Generally 5-7 2hour classes per week, plus around 4 30min demonstartion sales pitch classes to prospective clients, sorry, students. This is way not enough, the majority of my time (40hour pw contract) is spent surfing the net and writing banalities online.