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Some lessons were 35 minutes, some 40 minutes, some 45 minutes. I taught the same lesson to 26 classes. 10 grades, 3 classes in each grade. This meant tailoring the same lesson to 10 skill levels. An extra lesson to middle school and high school students. 7 extra lessons to the first graders in the advanced language program. I essentially taught for 4 schools - high, middle, primary, and language. Instead of teaching all classes of the same grade back to back, I skipped from grade to grade. Many cases of split shift scheduling. Some days I taught 7 lessons, some days I taught 3 lessons. 11 days on, 3 days off. Classrooms in 3 buildings. No classroom map. No English room numbers. No teaching assistant.

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So what were the contact hours pw?
Sounds a bit pay for play to me.
How to dilute the foreign teacher time sufficiently to give as many students exposure as possible.
Was this a brag point for the school or were parents paying extra for exposure to your incomparable teaching?
Hope you weren't expected to grade these kids