How many DIFFERENT lessons do you teach each week?

[Sega]

This isn't the total number of lessons, but the number of different lessons.


This thread is NOT a contest to see who works (plans?) the least or who works the most.  (Not a peeing contest).

Replying to the thread is not required. 

The purpose of the thread is to simply serve as a statistic for those of us who are interested what the rest of the field looks like.

[Songwon]

For some reason I'm unable to vote in polls these days (session authentification has failed, EVERY time) so I'll just reply: 10.  Last year it was only seven, but ever since they decided I MUST teach 22 classes regardless of whether or not there are classes to teach, they've been coming up with these make-work projects and so now I get to do my four regular weekly lesson plans (gr. 3-4) plus invent a whole lot from scratch.

[loswillyams]

8 DIFFERENT lessons a week. - If it helps, I'm in a public elementary school.

I'm guessing people that mark down for that super high 22 range are at a hagwon?

I'm interested in what college and adult hagwon teachers answer. Good poll, OP.

[SBracken]

14 :( It would be 17 but that I don't really prepare for 3 teacher classes I have... ^^ I wouldn't mind so much, but 8 of those I have to make up from scratch every week. Public school, by the way, over 6 different grades.

Last year I was only making about 5 new lessons (although I had zero book then). Still haven't decided if the book is making it better or worse, prep time wise....

[Deesh]

8 DIFFERENT lessons a week. - If it helps, I'm in a public elementary school.

I'm guessing people that mark down for that super high 22 range are at a hagwon?

I'm interested in what college and adult hagwon teachers answer. Good poll, OP.

Nope, I'm in a tiny rural public school (approximately 100 students) and teach on average 20 different lessons a week. I imagine most NET's in similar schools will have a similar total - not many lessons can be repeated when there's just one class per grade.

[loswillyams]

Ooh - that's an interesting point. I hadn't considered that, but it makes so much sense that population size would affect your class rotations.

I don't feel like 2 hours a week with me is enough for some lessons - or enough to make reasonable language progress. Are you finding that you're able to not only cover a lot of material, but also be pretty comprehensive about it?

[Deesh]

Haha if my school could competently schedule my classes, then yes! For some very strange reason I see grades 3 and 4 four times a week, but grades 5 and 6 only twice (80 minutes) per week (which is less than grades 1 and 2!). So yeah - I can go really in depth with my grades 3 and 4 in particular. And at the same time I know completely what you mean about not having enough time to make reasonable progress (with my grade 5 and 6 students).

[VizionMC]

I am at a public middle school and see my 1st graders once a week for 45 mins- so 1 lesson all week there, and I see my 3rd graders once every 2 weeksso I am only teaching 2 different lessons really every 1.5 weeks.  Makes planning a heck of a lot easier!

[Sega]

I see.

Is your school hiring next year?   

[Superchick3]

I'm at a middle school so I have 3-5 lessons for the week. Usually I try to talk about a certain topic just at different understanding levels, but there usually has to be 1-2 dud lessons for when the kids are just not cooperating.

[tbaren]

At my hagwon it was 30 individual lessons with different books every single week. No joke. I was there for 7 months, and never once got to repeat what I'd prepared before.

I left that job and came to public school.

Half the year I teach the 2nd and 3rd grade, so that was only 2 lessons I have to prepare per week.

Right now I am teaching 1st grade and the 'hopeless' low-level students in 2nd and 3rd grade, so it's 3 lessons per week. :D

I will never do a hagwon again!!!

[bob7marley]

public middle school. only 3 lessons, but i dumb them down and smarten them up with more repetition or extra activities for the different levels. and i only see each class once a week.

it takes about 2 classes with each grade to work all the dragging parts and make sure everything is in order, so i'd fail miserably at 20+ lessons every week without the chance to repeat things.

[tesoljon]

Public school.

1 main lesson with a couple different extension activities.

20 classes, no book, not quite 800 students.


Sometimes I'll do a special lesson for a holiday, or if I'm recycling a lesson from last year, I'll keep the same topic but change up the lesson for the 2nd years.