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Non Sequitur
Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 4724 Location: China
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 4:10 am Post subject: |
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hilena_westb wrote: |
If the school wanted you to give a break, then I'm sure the break would be scheduled. It is pretty standard fair that universities in China provide a 90 minute class; not 2 45 minute classes with a break between. Why not simply follow what you were told/given to do per your schedule. I allow my students to come and go during the class time for bathroom breaks and the like. That should be far more than sufficient. |
All* of the public unis and colleges I've worked in, schedule a break after 45 mins and a bell to start/stop this.
As I select randomly for speaking tasks, I don't want to be told when a students is selected that he/she is in the loo.
That is a recipe for dodgers and an impossible management task.
*The only classes in my most recent school that worked through without a break were those pre lunch in the teaching building nearest the dining hall.
This was done so that arrivals for lunch were staggered.
I inserted a break in those classes myself because I began really different work in the second 45 mins, so it was like a whole new class.
After the break with the essentials of bladder and nicotine relief plus schmoozing the GF in the next class (students not mine) out of the way, the energy levels were much higher in my view.
The extra learning effort available more than made up for the 10 mins lost. |
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rogerwilco
Joined: 10 Jun 2010 Posts: 1549
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 4:20 am Post subject: |
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hilena_westb wrote: |
If the school wanted you to give a break, then I'm sure the break would be scheduled. It is pretty standard fair that universities in China provide a 90 minute class; not 2 45 minute classes with a break between. Why not simply follow what you were told/given to do per your schedule. I allow my students to come and go during the class time for bathroom breaks and the like. That should be far more than sufficient. |
At both of the universities that I have worked for in China each class was 2 40 minute classes with a 10 minute break between.
My friends at other universities tell me that they have the same type of classes. |
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DirtGuy
Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 529
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Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 3:59 am Post subject: |
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WTF? I started this thread and then never got any replies from Dave's!!!! Thanks, everyone, for responding and I'm digesting all this info.
DG |
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roadwalker
Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1750 Location: Ch
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Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 6:13 am Post subject: |
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DirtGuy wrote: |
WTF? I started this thread and then never got any replies from Dave's!!!! Thanks, everyone, for responding and I'm digesting all this info.
DG |
I think you only get email notifications if you get a pm. You have to check back on topics to see if anyone responded to your thread. |
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7969
Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 5782 Location: Coastal Guangdong
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Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 6:24 am Post subject: |
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roadwalker wrote: |
DirtGuy wrote: |
WTF? I started this thread and then never got any replies from Dave's!!!! Thanks, everyone, for responding and I'm digesting all this info.
DG |
I think you only get email notifications if you get a pm. You have to check back on topics to see if anyone responded to your thread. |
Click the "watch this topic for replies" button at the bottom left and you'll get email notifications. |
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Non Sequitur
Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 4724 Location: China
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Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 6:51 am Post subject: |
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DirtGuy wrote: |
WTF? I started this thread and then never got any replies from Dave's!!!! Thanks, everyone, for responding and I'm digesting all this info.
DG |
Damn good thread DG.
Best
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NoBillyNO
Joined: 11 Jun 2012 Posts: 1762
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Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 9:32 am Post subject: |
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If the school wanted you to give a break, then I'm sure the break would be scheduled. It is pretty standard fair that universities in China provide a 90 minute class; not 2 45 minute classes with a break between. Why not simply follow what you were told/given to do per your schedule. I allow my students to come and go during the class time for bathroom breaks and the like. |
50 min classes with a ten min brake in the middle. Lunch two hours and a 20 min break before the 4:10 class. I'm not sure the school would be able to schedule a flag raising. Someone would always have to run back to the office for the flag pole Key. |
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lemak
Joined: 19 Nov 2011 Posts: 368
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 5:41 am Post subject: |
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hilena_westb wrote: |
It is pretty standard fair that universities in China provide a 90 minute class; not 2 45 minute classes with a break between. |
Absolute rubbish!
Where do you get this nonsensical crap that you endlessly vomit up onto these forums?
Here?
Would certainly make sense. |
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Non Sequitur
Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 4724 Location: China
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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hilena has a certain textual tic that I'm sure others have noted.
Strong suggestion that he/she/them disappears and reappears as a new poster. |
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