Monotony of Teaching...
I found out today that I am teaching the same biology class six times next year, my entire teaching schedule. Fortunately the school I teach at uses block scheduling so I won't see each class everyday. But still, at some point I will be teaching the same thing to six different classes. I had five sections a couple years ago and it was awful. By the time the last class rolled around, my 40 minute lesson was shortened to almost 20 minutes. That isn't fair to students.
Any tips, tricks or general advice on avoiding this hell-level monotony for a teacher?
I've considered of a flipped classroom approach, where I post a short 10-minute lecture video (i.e. EdPuzzle) of the lesson 1-2 days beforehand. But given the quality of students I will have, they won't watch the lesson ahead of time. I've also thought of pausing/delaying the curriculum for the first week of school for a group of classes.
FYI my pedagogy is mostly direct instruction.
Lastly, this was intentional from administration so I'm curious if there is some other reason for this assignment schedule.
Appreciate the feedback