I’m going to die…. 🥵🥵

I’m scheduled to teach two ESL classes this fall semester. Both of them are suppose to start next week.

My speech class in the morning is touch and go. I won’t know until last minute whether or not I will be teaching that class because it’s an offsite class, and I still don’t know how many students are registered. This is the nature of offsite classes unfortunately. You don’t know until last minute whether or not the class will run, but I still have to prepare for it.

My evening class is a definite go ahead. I’m allowed to have 40 students in my class, and I reached 40 students after only 11 days of my class going live on the college website. Several of the students are previous students of mine who want to be in my class but are not necessarily ready for this level. But I can’t deny them. I currently have 40 registered students, and two more are on the waitlist. I still have one more week before my class starts, and I anticipate more students will be on the waitlist. I plan to teach paragraph writing in this evening class because they are low intermediate level. As much as I love teaching ESL, my pet peeve is editing paragraphs. And with 40+ students in my class, I’m going to dread it. 😰😓🫠😵

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dale74 · M

I must be blessed I don't think I ever prepped for classes I had to teach most of them were to adults that I worked with if you know your subject matter well enough prepping doesn't take as much. What's funny is I taught her class one time and so did the head of our facility and later that day people said hey Dale you did an awesome job and kept walking and she was standing right next to me we were the only two that taught stuff that day.

marsbar · F

@dale74 That was sad for her. Lol

For decades I have taught low beginning to beginning level ESL classes. I have taught intermediate classes in the past, but not for many years. It’s also a brand new textbook that I will be using. And I’m also the type of teacher that doesn’t stick to only one textbook. I use supplemental materials from other textbooks and create my own activities. I don’t want my students to get bored, so I try to create as many engaging activities as I can. So prepping is necessary. Once I finish this semester, then I will be all set if I am assigned to teach this class again next semester. A lot of my prep will involve photocopying and creating exercises/activities.

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marsbar · F

@dale74 That’s pretty bad.

dale74 · M

@marsbar you find it all the time with government contractors and in government institutions. At the place that I work there were approximately 400 employees after I've been there for over a year I finally realized when I was looking at the employee database almost every single employee either worked or lived in the same town and almost every single employee I mean about 75%. This peaked my curiosity I then found out most of the people that work there were related to other people that work there. Out of all the employees there were 15 White employees of those only four of us were men we were all fired the same week they said I hadn't done certain reports luckily I had all those reports on the thumb drive that I walked out of there with so when I had to go to unemployment I showed him what they said that was fired for and then I showed them every one of the reports that I've done.

marsbar · F

@dale74 Oh wow. Nepotism was alive & well there.