More of the usual

And less of the usual.

I’ve now been told I’m definitely teaching PAL and AS. The former will be more of the same. The latter will be different although I don’t know how different. I don’t know whether I’ll be teaching Standard Level IB only or whether I’ll also be teaching Higher Level. Only a small number of AS students will be doing HL English, which means that they may be integrated into the IB English classes, thus leaving me with the rest; or I might be teaching them anyway.

It would possibly be nice to teach a smaller class. Although I have no problems with standing in front of large groups, the bigger they are, the less personal it all becomes. Group work is a nod to reasonable class sizes where reasonable class sizes would be better in the first place.

On the other hand, I had groups of six students in Tongzhou and Fuzhou doing IELTS who mostly just sat in class wasting my time. There was the giggling idiot with his ¥8,000 mobile phone; there were the ferrets, a pair of lazy, arrogant, skinny personality-free girls; there was the sly, feral girl; the überdim girl; and in both groups, the one student who did anything.