So a couple of notes on my humble ESL teaching experience to date:
- Largest class taught: 4 students
- Age range of students: 15-30 years, more or less
- Most classes taught in one day: 1
- Most classes taught in one week: 4
- Class length: 20 minutes or 90 minutes
Here is a profile of the upcoming weekend:
- Largest class (all of them): 16 students
- Age range: 6-12 or something crazy like that
- Class length: 2 hours a piece
- Number of classes in one day: 3
- Number of levels: 3 . . . or 48, depending on your perspective
- Number of classes in a two-day weekend: 6
- Longest period of teaching with no prep time in between: FOUR HOURS!
- Number of students whose names I can pronounce: 0. (Well maybe 2, let’s be fair)
- Number of students I’ve ever seen before: 0.
That may not sound like much to either non-teachers or experienced teachers, but YOWZA.
The upside of this is that nothing will ever scare me again.
