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Gordon
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 Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:57 pm Post subject: University class size |
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| I am wondering what some of your university class sizes are like? I've just found that many of my upcoming term classes will have over 50 students in them, a couple in the 70 range. These are to be communicative classes, a couple are lecture style though. Is this normal? I don't think so and one of colleagues at another campus is advising me to talk to the dept. head about asking if they can hire another teacher to shrink the classes. I'm unsure if I should ask and appear like a wimp when this is the norm. This is my third year at this school and the classes have probably grown about 30%/year. |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:19 pm Post subject: Re: University class size |
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| Gordon wrote: |
| I am wondering what some of your university class sizes are like? I've just found that many of my upcoming term classes will have over 50 students in them, a couple in the 70 range. These are to be communicative classes, a couple are lecture style though. Is this normal? I don't think so and one of colleagues at another campus is advising me to talk to the dept. head about asking if they can hire another teacher to shrink the classes. I'm unsure if I should ask and appear like a wimp when this is the norm. This is my third year at this school and the classes have probably grown about 30%/year. |
Its not normal. An optimim size is 20-25. Even 30 is too much.
My class sizes are between 35 and 40. Either the school is trying to save money or they are short of teachers. The largest conversation class I had was 70 students but that was one term. |
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taikibansei
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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Depends on the class. I averaged 50 students for ippan eigo classes, 25 students for eikaiwa/eisakubun, and 15 students for kougi/enshuu classes (usually on a topic in literature or linguistics).
Still, I've met few people who've had it worse than this--for the last four years I was in Fukui, they had me teaching a class on 'poetry appreciation'...to engineering and science majors. There were typically 75 students in that class....  |
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