Can you believe we have been teaching in the pandemic mode for a year now?
Your challenges of teaching remote, hybrid, in-person, synchronous, asynchronous, and any combination of those mixed together have been going on for months and months.
Can you believe your 2nd semester of teaching is almost halfway in? Or perhaps, can you believe it’s already been 15 years since your 1st year teaching?
There’s one thing we know from all the questions we get… every world language teacher has questions, doubts, concerns. No matter how long they’ve been teaching.
One reason we know that to be true among language teachers is isolation. There are lots of Math teachers in every school, English teachers and Science teachers. But language teachers often don’t have that many peers, thus we see questions like this all the time:
• How many times a week do you see your (Spanish, French, German, etc.) students?
• Has anyone taught an overload schedule (no planning period) at the high school level? I have a say in the matter, but my school is asking if I would be comfortable with taking on an extra class instead of a planning period next year.
• Just out of curiosity, how many class preps do you have? And if you have more than four, how do you manage to keep your sanity?
So the 2nd Annual Survey for World Language Teachers is now open and will answer all these kinds of questions… and more. Just to know what other teachers are doing, how large their class sizes are, the best ways they are finding to do things.
All these questions leave us each wishing we had benchmarks to make decisions.
The goal of the survey is to help foster your confidence, career growth, and teaching.
The answers. The final report to the survey. That’s the Gold. And we’re actually excited about doing this year after year so we not only have each year’s answers but also can start to track changes over time.
We’d love you to answer the questions so we can publish the report for all world language teachers to review. Not only this year but every year. Find out all about the teaching conditions and ideas behind World Language Teachers everywhere.
Take the 9-minute survey anonymously today and we’ll have the results back to you by the end of this school year.
