APS WL IN Writing and class size

[Anonymous]

Curious how large IB class sizes are at WL for writing intensive courses (English, History, etc). Are these classes smaller and the teachers have fewer students overall than GenEd courses so they can have time to write the great writing workload assigned and produced by the students?

If they had 5-6 30 student classes, there would never be time to read all those papers with more than a cursory task.

Or maybe they have TA like teachers in training to help with reading, editing, and grading?

[Anonymous]

Last year's class size report shows that the SL IB English classes averaged 24-26 students with 17 in the smallest section. The HL are smaller, 18-21, with 13 in the smallest section.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last year's class size report shows that the SL IB English classes averaged 24-26 students with 17 in the smallest section. The HL are smaller, 18-21, with 13 in the smallest section.

And so that English teacher will only be teaching 6 classes of 17-25 kids? That's great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last year's class size report shows that the SL IB English classes averaged 24-26 students with 17 in the smallest section. The HL are smaller, 18-21, with 13 in the smallest section.

And so that English teacher will only be teaching 6 classes of 17-25 kids? That's great.

Wow.

Having seen how much work an IB English teacher does to show how to revise and re-revise an essay, there is no "only" about that amount of grading.

I wanted to send my kid's teacher on a multiweek rest cure at the end of the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last year's class size report shows that the SL IB English classes averaged 24-26 students with 17 in the smallest section. The HL are smaller, 18-21, with 13 in the smallest section.

And so that English teacher will only be teaching 6 classes of 17-25 kids? That's great.

Wow.

Having seen how much work an IB English teacher does to show how to revise and re-revise an essay, there is no "only" about that amount of grading.

I wanted to send my kid's teacher on a multiweek rest cure at the end of the class.

I only mean "only" in the sense that I expected them to be teaching 6 classes of 30+ kids. I do feel it is more reading and editing than a single public school teacher should burden.

[Anonymous]

The class size report from last year is here: https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Class-Size-Report-2020-21.pdf
(they haven't released the detailed report this year)

Just how many IB classes of grading they need to do vs. other classes would depend on how exactly they allocate teachers to the HL vs SL vs. non-IB classes.

The largest IB classes were electives -- film HL (31), philosophy SL (28), geography SL (28), business & management (27).