The only thing I will say that I really need to work on is still the timing in my class. I started off with accurate timing. Things ended on time. But now, with the cold weather, classes are starting late and I am ending late.
See, students arriving just seconds before class starts. And I like to give them five minutes to get into the room. Then, once everyone gets into the room, I spend another minute talking and explaining things to the newbies. So, we tend to start almost eight minutes late. Then I go about three minutes over in teaching the actual class.
So class ends up running 111 minutes.
Not bad. But once classes stop being so crazy, and the weather doesn't prevent people from getting here on time, hopefully the timing will be tightened up naturally.
The woes of being a new teacher!
awesome:) good on u for u still teaching and working a full time job:) its lucky for you guys overseas USA mostly - not sure about where u live as lot more bikram studios...whereas over here in sydney there are only 4 so the new teachers dont have alot of opportunties to have so much work:( which sad. congrats to you
ReplyDeleteI go over in every class, except my 630am classes. I'm always able to start those right on time and need to give very little corrections since the students who practice at that time are all superstars. Lately I've even finished those classes two minutes early!
ReplyDeleteAll other classes go over by 5 to 10 minutes. No one has ever complained.
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