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[tonyvu]

How often do you teach certain students every week? once or two days a week or does it depend on the school. What is usually the norm?

[Rory_Calhoun27]

at my elementary:

grades 3-4 were once a week from the book,
grades 5-6 twice a week

then when the school SHRANK by 2/3, they kept that pace, but to make up for the missing students, I also got:

grades 1-2, once a week

and extra classes for grade 3-6, with 3 and 4 having their own books, and 5-6 sharing....

so long story short, instead of writing 6 lesson plans for 12 classes of 3-6th grade, I was writing 12 lesson plans for 6 classes, 1-6.

and people wonder why I was going mad in my school....

but anyway, long story short, it seems grades 5-6 get two classes a week, 3-4 one.

[call_the_shots]

It takes me two weeks to get through all the classes at my middle school. I give them all the same lesson, so I only have to prepare one lesson per every two weeks.

[romano812]

I teach an advanced class everyday for 1 period.
Grade 6 I see once a week.
Grade 5 I see once a week.
Grade 4 twice a month
Grade 3 once a month

Grade 3 and 4 is only for assessment, somebody else actually teaches the lessons.

This may not seem like a lot, but the school has over 2000 students. Each grade level has approximately 8 classes, so, for example, I have 8 grade 6 classes in one week.

[espoir]

I teach highschool Grade 1's once every week and Grade 2's once every 2 weeks.

[cruisemonkey]

There are as many norms as the are schools.

When I first started at my present school, they drew up a totally illogical schedule that had me teaching some classes (in the same grade) twice a week, others once every two weeks and some not at all... yet, the next year they were all supposed to be at the same 'level' (or at least have had the same amount of exposure to the foreign teacher). Combine that idiocy with a plethora of unexpected cancellations, working at two schools and a moronic decision to combine/divide classes in the middle of a school year, by the end of a single term, I had taught some classes as many as 14 times more than others.

During my first year I hammered away at this insanity... and now starting my third year, all is well. I work at a boys middle school (one school only - it now 'owns' me... and that's the way I want it) and see all the grade one and two classes once a week (I now have no grade three classes). These account for 21 of my 22 classes... the 22nd class exists only on paper to keep the local school district and the POE happy.