[HPforGrownups] Re: Late in the topic but oh well

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No: HPFGUIDX 13027


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rita Winston 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 10:52 PM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Late in the topic but oh well


  --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Saitaina" <saitaina at w...> wrote:
  > If you only teach four classes as week (assuming you teach every
  > year for the house in one day which isn't that hard) what do you
  > do at Hogwarts for the other three days....take really long bubble
  > baths?


  Oh, I wish teaching were so simple that anyone could whip off seven classes a day with ease.  Unfortunately, those of us who are teachers know that it's not.  For one thing, the Hogwarts faculty would not teach for 7 hours straight (not unless they wanted to die young of stress induced heart problems).  There would have to be breaks, at least one lunch hour and most likely a dinner hour.  Add onto that planning time.  Now, if a teacher is going to teach the same thing to each class at the same level (i.e. all of the first years follow the same lesson plan), then tthat teacher would need seven preps per week.  However, if you're a teacher, you know that classes do not always obediently follow the syllabus.  One set of first years might stay on track while another set goes off because of a problem area (Neville just can't seem to get the theory of the wart potion right!), while yet another set zooms ahead, learning everything quite quickly.  Suddenly, your seven preps a week has multiplied.  Just to give you an idea of how much time that means, many teachers spend almost as much time preparing a class as they do teaching it.
  I'm not that good at math, but it seems that if you consider all of this, then the average hogwarts teacher could spend up ten hours (including breaks) just teaching each day.  On top of that, he or she could spend several more hours preparing for the next day's class.  
  All I can say is, Hogwarts better have a good benefits plan to attract professors to that kind of back-breaking schedule.  I imagine  that they would definitely need quite a bubbly bath by the time the weekend comes.

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