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| What do you like least about English language teaching? |
| Teaching? |
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17% |
[ 6 ] |
| Lesson Planning? |
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17% |
[ 6 ] |
| Course Design? |
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20% |
[ 7 ] |
| Marking? |
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41% |
[ 14 ] |
| The Long Holidays? |
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2% |
[ 1 ] |
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naturegirl321
Joined: 04 May 2003
Posts: 9041
Location: home sweet home
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| AGoodStory wrote: |
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| teaching is just one part of teaching. There are other parts, like lesson planning, grading, going to meetings, writing reports, etc. Just because you don't like one part doesn't mean you hate all of it. |
Yes, but teaching is the heart of it, is it not? "The other parts, like lesson planning, grading, going to meetings, writing reports, etc." exist only to support the teaching. Teaching is the point, the reason that all the rest exists. |
I disagree. There's a reason why people studying to teachers have to study lesson planning, course design, observe teachers, write reports, etc. |
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JZer
Joined: 16 Jan 2005
Posts: 3898
Location: Pittsburgh
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| Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 2:08 am Post subject: |
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naturegirl, the only problem is that in Korea the Korean professor in charge may have studied none of these things. Many Korean professors who are usually in charge studied English Literature and have no idea about those things.
Just my experience it may be different at your university. |
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Laurence
Joined: 26 Apr 2005
Posts: 401
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| Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 4:40 am Post subject: |
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I don't mind lesson planning - I like stringing ideas together (much like Hannibal)
but what i don't like is meticulously adhering to set standards when documenting everything - writing up lesson plans as if they are for someone else,
when in all likelihood I am the only one that will ever use them.
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gaijinalways
Joined: 29 Nov 2005
Posts: 2279
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I definitely would have to say the marking is my least favorite out of the choices offered. One reason being that I don't believe in marking itself (I really do believe learning should be its own reward, though I'm not sure that means that I want to be operated on by a doctor or have my car fixed by a mechanic that is not licensed), and the other that it does at times seem pretty tedious (even when my students express things that surprise me from time to time). |
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