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[irwinpryce]

Hi,
Was just wondering what size of classes everyone here is teaching.

I have had a nightmare day with ringing in my ears and a headache. I teach kindergarten and classes are around 25-29students. Is this normal?

[IncognitoHFX]

Wow, you're lucky. I just got out of a class with 51 students in it (I counted).

One of my other classes is so squished that when I give them a writing assignment, I can't walk around and check because everyone is so squished together the aisles have disappeared.

I teach High School though... they're not strangling each other, climbing the ceilings, hitting each other and screaming like Elementary kids.

*Looks around*

I take that back.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Mine have varied from 12 to 42, with an average of 25-30. The larger ones aren't a problem so long as there's enough space and there are enough desks. But then I teach secondary school. I can't imagine what sort of hell 29 kindies would be.

[Thewhiteyalbum]

My smallest has 8 kids (6th grade).
My biggest class has 16.

[Straphanger]

[alex83]

I teach middle school.
Regular classes vary from 36-40 students.

[alex83]

I teach middle school.
Regular classes vary from 36-40 students.

[Perceptioncheck]

[I'm no Picasso]

[English Matt]

I'm in a High School. I teach 16 different classes a week - 12 have around 40, the other 4 have about 32-34.

In my case, I find that the noise level doesn't depend so much on the size of the class (the smaller ones can actually be more of a pain in the butt on the noise front some days) but more on the student's English level, and also the co-teacher's participation.

I have 4 low level classes and 4 high level classes that are great - I have a great coteacher who the kids love in those low level classes. My intermediate and lowest level students can be a nightmare sometimes, in both cases the coteachers participate little in the class and seem to have no authority.

[ajgeddes]

Mine are all from 9-12.

[cwaddell]

My last two schools kept all classes under 12 students, which was pretty lucky. And now my class size is.....zero! I'm enjoying the change.

[Misera]

public elementary school~ my classes range from 33 to 39

i dunno.. i kinda like my loud/wild/crazy 4th graders the louder classes are funner to teach than the quieter. It's not that the quieter don't understand or don't answer questions-- they do, it's just it's really fun when they're enthusiastic. Same with the 6th graders >_>