For me, the number of the sessions is not really matter! I believe when students find us helpful they keep taking sessions; so no worries if italki counts them correctly or not. ;) I Do feel great when my students start speaking and writing in Farsi after a short while. ;) Take a look at this sample!! http://www.italki.com/entry/436802 This student have started to write only after 2 sessions and now she can communicate!! So this is what we all wanted to happen here! ;) Wish you all the best Hiva

Hi, Sophia You mean the number of lessons we have taught? This is already showed in our Teacher's Profile.

It's a good idea for showing efficiency of lessons

Sure, Sophia, the more stats the better. For now, I mostly offer lessons of exactly one hour, so the number of lessons is the same as the number of hours, except for instant tutoring and trial sessions. If a student wants two or three hours straight, they're welcome to book consecutive lessons. Sophia: If you really want to do yourself and the Portuguese learning community a favor, I once again recommend that you correct your profile to show your country of origin as Portugal (of course, you can keep Germany as your country of residence). If you don't do that, it makes it really hard for students seaching for a European Portuguese teacher to find you using the automatic search function -- I'm sure no one is searching specifically for a Portuguese teacher from Germany.

I don't think it would make a big difference. Though I do get curious about how many 30, 45, 60, 90, etc minute classes a teacher has, it (in my opinion) has nothing to do with how well he or she teaches and is irrelevant. What's more important is the number of students vs the number of total sessions. There's a big difference between a teacher who has 400 sessions from 50 students, versus a teacher who has the same 400 sessions from 380 students. When doing a basic search, this information is unfortunately no longer available, however it is still in the teacher's full profile. Italki, please bring this feature back!! Maybe it would be helpful for teachers to specify that "one session does not necessarily equal one hour" in their profile.