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davidq · Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Posts: 12

Just curious as to when your required to start teaching again after the Chinese New Year break and what type of school it is ? I've noticed some differences for various schools.

Voldermort · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 597

Too ruddy early!! I only get a 5 week break!

tw · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 3898

February 27. I have an eight-week winter break.

[EDITED] Public college of about 4,000 students, 95% of which are Mongolians.

brsmith15 · Joined: 12 May 2003 Posts: 1142 Location: New Hampshire USA

Feb 20

tarzaninchina · Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 348 Location: World

At this college, classes resume on the last Monday in February, the 27th.

Classes finished on January 6th and I finished marking exams that weekend.

That makes it 7 weeks. Wow, I should do this math more often. Tarzan like.

Girl Scout · Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 525 Location: Inbetween worlds

Feb. 13

Private college

amandabarrick · Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 391

Feb. 13th.

Public high school in Jiangsu. But seniors (grade 3) start on the 6th. I only teach grades one and two.

AB

adventuramust · Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 126

Feb 7th

Public Middle School, Hubei

(Or so I am told right now)

mondrian · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:38 am Post subject:

ChinaLady · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:58 am Post subject: School starts again!

pick up new class schedules Feb. 17
classes start Feb 20.
private college.

note: usually we have Winter English camp but not enough
time this year, so we actually get a break of about 4 weeks.
which means we will have a really crazy Summer English camp.

Yu · Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 1219 Location: Shanghai

classes ended for me Jan 13, grades are due Jan 23.... grading is going to not be a fun job. Oral english has been evaluated, and just need to complie everything together with their attendance.

Writing on the other hand is a nightmare. I'll just leave it at that.
I go back Feb 20...

Next semester I will only be teaching 10 hours. From the 3-8 week I dont have 2 hours because the students will be doing their practice teaching! And after the 10th week, I will only have 2 hours a week cause the students are graduating! However, I am teaching writing for 10 weeks. And that is a lot of papers to look at.

Looking forward to next semester and surving the next week to finish grading the writing.

Loop · Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 178 Location: NE China

Finished Jan. 13
Start Feb. 20. That�s a five-week holiday. But the students� other classes begin a week before our classes.
Public university, Harbin

Next term�s schedules were given to us last week. Woo-hoo, planning and organization do exist in China! Very Happy

LeiShan · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 41

Finished December 30th start back March 1st. 8.5 weeks. Hey it is a tough stint but someone has to do it. Also get 10 weeks in summer and the other 3 weeks throughout the year! (Hmmm, do I really work?)