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This won't be really a class, so I am calling it a group (like honor roll students).

I have a few students at the public school (high school) I teach at who are advanced compared the other students. Their schedule is already set, but they have a 2 hour lunch break. I am planning on using that time for any advanced students who would like to have lunch and meet during this time. This way it won't conflict with their regular classes. The head English teacher at the school ok'd it, and now I just need to invite all the students and see if they can come.

Any other ideas to make this work (time wise)? I know I can schedule after school, but it's 6:30pm and they are still there. I would rather get it done earlier, so we can all go home. Weekends would be an idea, but then I have to talk to the language school who is my real employer about this. I am in China, and it's ok to do this here. The language school would just charge the students if they knew I was doing this.

In addition to scheduling, what things do you do for a class like this? I have already done some SAT prep for Koreans in China. Their English is considerably better than 95% of the students at this rural public high school. However, it was basically at a "hagwon" style school. I don't like the structure of hagwons and I want to do things like read a book or use a movie to spawn various debates.

What success stories do you have with advanced students? I have experience with low level students which require patience, but advanced students are too smart for me and I want to stay ahead of the game and offer them something that will help them.

My worry is that I will give them too much stuff I wanted to learn at their age and not what they want or maybe need. I don't want them to think they wasted their time with something they might not be interested in and aren't seeing positive results with. Is testing part of advanced classes, or do you focus more on personal growth without trying to make them achieve a standard (since they are already past it compared to their school classmates)?