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Offline jmdv

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Size of schools?
« on: January 11, 2012, 08:44:21 pm »
What is the size of the school you teach at?
Your smallest school/camp?
In big city or in countryside?

My usual school has about 900 students.

My smallest school is the one I'm doing a summer camp at now. 24 students in the WHOLE school. Needless to say, its a challenge!
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2012, 08:49:45 pm »
Gardes 1-6 15 students total. My grade 6 class is just 1. I teach at 6 different elementary schools, that's the smallest and my biggest is 74.
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2012, 08:58:08 pm »
Wow that is pretty small! My smallest is at a camp and the students don't usually have a foreign teacher so they act a bit crazy...and sometimes very funny!
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2012, 11:39:05 pm »
You have 1 student awwww! Do they like it or are they lonely?
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2012, 12:05:49 am »
1 student?  How does that work?  Does he/she have a homeroom teacher?  I've always been curious about these tiny little schools.
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2012, 03:29:44 am »
My biggest school has under 100 kids, smallest about 50-60 I think. Middle School has 75. These are rural schools, of course

A friend works at a school with 8 kids. I don't see why they don't close it and have the kids go to the next closest school. None of the kids there can possibly be more than 20 minutes from a bigger school. I have at least one middle schooler who takes a boat to school so I don't understand why they keep a school of 8 kids open. Ridiculously wasteful government spending
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2012, 08:46:11 am »
My school is 300 kids. I have 25 kids for grade 3/4 winter camp and 6 for grade 5/6.
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2012, 09:43:02 am »
I think there are about 1300 at my school give or take 50.
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2012, 09:56:01 am »
My high school has about 1100 kids, but I only teach about 750 of them.
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2012, 10:00:33 am »
The current school I have my camp at, is about 10 minutes from a town that has a decent elementary school with about 800 students. Most of the students I have live close to that elementary school but they still drive 10 minutes to get to this very small one with limited resources etc....strange?
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2012, 10:02:36 am »
I teach at one huge high school. There's only 900 students, but the school is massive. It's a technical school, so half of the school consists of computer labs, dance halls, etc.. It has the capacity to hold over 2,000 students. I teach all 30 classes, the 2nd and 3rd years alternate weeks. They range from 22-28 students. I had a few classes with only 5-6 students because the rest went off to work. They can get jobs and work before graduating at technical schools. They still graduate on time, but they don't need to attend.
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2012, 01:31:13 pm »
Quote from: tails on January 11, 2012, 11:39:05 pm
You have 1 student awwww! Do they like it or are they lonely?

Yeah, he likes it. He shares a home room with grade 5 (3 kids) so for most of his lessons he's with him. I think his parents like it with him getting 3 hours of private one on one tuition with a native speaker each week! He's a great kid, could hardly read, write or speak English when I first got him but he has improved immensely. I'd love to be able to teach some of my other low level learners in the same way.
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2012, 02:06:36 pm »
My base school has approximately 400 students but I only teach 2nd year so I see 130 of them. Of my two visiting schools - the high school has 75 and the elementary school might have 50 kids (I only teach 3rd-6th grade which has maybe 24).
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2012, 02:28:01 pm »
I have 30 kids at my school. I'm in a public school and this is the only school I teach at. My smallest class is 2 students, my largest is 8 students. During camp I have classes from 1 student to maybe 5 max.

I love it as I can really get to know my kids and focus my lessons to suit their abilities :)
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2012, 10:33:47 am »
I teach at 2 rural schools: middle and elementary. This year I expect somewhere in the neighbourhood of 70 students total covering 7 different grades. My smallest class will be 3 and my largest 21.

I like small classes and the kids are all polite and well behaved.
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2012, 10:43:56 am »
Teach at the largest middle school in Yongin - 1500 students.

I only teach grade 1 and 2 though - all my classes are 40 students (around 1000 total). See grade 1 once a week, grade 2 every two weeks.
My winter camp had a cap at 20 students, since I taught alone. (12 - 16 showed up)

Yongin is only 40 minutes away from Seoul, suburbs.

I like living close to Seoul, but I think it would be a lot better teaching fewer students at a smaller school (or even multiple schools).
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2012, 10:52:09 am »
Middle: 180
High: 340

It's just the right amount for one waeg, though March-June and Sept.-Nov. I am very, very busy. It seems that instead of finding ways to make the job easier I keep taking on more responsibilities and work. Oh well, for five months of the year it's the easiest job / holiday-going anyone could ask for.
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2012, 10:54:36 am »
My middle school has a little less than 300 and my high school has about 300, of which I teach 200. So that's about 500 kids total. The incoming middle school class is supposed to be tiny though, so who knows how many students I'll have next year.
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2012, 10:28:35 pm »
Total # of students grades 1-6: 630

I teach grades 3-5 during the school year: # of students: 422
I only teach 3 classes of 5th (there are 5) once a week. I teach 3rd and 4th grade twice a week.

During camp I don't even teach my own students, I teach 1st and 2nd grade. There's 14 of those students in camp.
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Re: Size of schools?
« Reply #19 on: February 04, 2012, 08:49:30 am »
My school has 60 classes. Almost* 9 classes per grade for each grade. I think that works out to a little over 2,000 kids at my public elementary school. It's one of the largest in Gyeonggi.
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