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fat_chris
Joined: 10 Sep 2003
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Location: Chengdu, Sichuan, PRC
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| GreatApe wrote: |
Although it's "GreatApe" as opposed to the old-school cartoon, "Grape Ape" which I'm old enough to remember and old enough to have watched in the original. I'm getting old, period!  |
Oops. Freudian slip. Sorry. 
I must have had that cartoon in mind when I typed that. I too am old enough to have watched the original. Good 'ole Hanna-Barbera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsj53H4x3nI
I agree. Teaching in China's not perfect, but the ups definitely outnumber the downs. Couldn't always say that about being a public school teacher in The City.
Good luck with it all here. Keep keepin' on.
Warm regards,
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Ariadne
Joined: 16 Jul 2004
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How's my schedule? Darn near perfect.
14 hours a week. Fun and friendly students who try... well, most of them try. 2 different courses, so only 2 lesson plans. Off Mondays. No night classes. Finished by noon on Fridays. Classrooms are less than 5 minutes from my apartment. How sweet it is! I feel quite lucky.
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MisterButtkins
Joined: 03 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| 4 90 minute classes a week. Have class M, Th, Fr. So I basically get two weekends. Not too bad. |
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Non Sequitur
Joined: 23 May 2010
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Location: China
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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Hell Mr B
That's 8 teaching hours pw - right?
Did you do a lot of extra work in the first semester and they're easing up on you this spring? |
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GreatApe
Joined: 11 Apr 2012
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Location: Guangdong, PRC
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| Oops. Freudian slip. Sorry. |
As my students always say (and yours too, I'm guessing!) ...
"NO SORRY!"  
--GA |
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lemak
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Do your schools allow you to move the schedule around once it's started, or is it more or less fixed for the semester?
Me and my foreign co-teacher talked to the boss about changing classes to different days so we could get at least a three day, possibly four day weekend and she said it was fine. In the past they've been pretty stringent about keeping things as is once it's been set. |
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7969
Joined: 26 Mar 2003
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Location: South China, by the sea.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 6:04 am Post subject: |
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| lemak wrote: |
Do your schools allow you to move the schedule around once it's started, or is it more or less fixed for the semester?
Me and my foreign co-teacher talked to the boss about changing classes to different days so we could get at least a three day, possibly four day weekend and she said it was fine. In the past they've been pretty stringent about keeping things as is once it's been set. |
A lot of schools don't like making changes, even minor ones like changing a classroom, or a class time even if it poses no problems to the parties involved. If you ask about making any changes it seems to always require the approval of someone three levels of leadership higher than is really necessary. Delegation of authority isn't commonplace here. Anyway our school allows changes, but like I said, you need to make a formal request stating the reasons why, then later on someone will approve it. Sometimes students are the ones that want a class time to change, esp. if they have one on a Friday afternoon. |
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GreatApe
Joined: 11 Apr 2012
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Location: Guangdong, PRC
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We generally change our schedule times each semester a little bit to coincide with the main school section and what they're doing. We share one bell system, so it's pretty important to be on the same schedule time-wise. Life and work is hectic enough just trying to teach and maintain a consistent level of success, why have two different bell systems, right?
Now that we're in week two ... two of my classes have been dropped, which is a GOOD thing! I'm down to 20 per week with night duty on Tuesdays. I teach 4 classes on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays ... 5 classes on Thursdays and 3 classes on Fridays. I'm finished at 2:15 on Fridays and the weekend can begin, which is pretty nice. I teach classes back-to-back 4 times a week, but generally have a 40 minute period in between classes.
That gives me time to do my other assignments, write e-mail and post on Dave's!
Yes! ... I am supposed to be working right now!
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lemak
Joined: 19 Nov 2011
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In a pleasantly unexpected turn of events my schedule has been cut back to 8 x 45 minute classes/week until the start of June.
Brain is happy. Liver is not. |
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Non Sequitur
Joined: 23 May 2010
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Location: China
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| Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Enjoy!! |
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