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Vo Rogue
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| tw wrote: |
Chinese students also don't understand the concept of thinking, which explains why you will have paper after paper with introductions that start with variations of "with the development of moden society". |
Ha ha, yes I'm expecting that. I'm also expecting that no matter what the topic there will be students who will turn it into an essay on their family ("My mother is very beautiful and interesting") or their hometown (always ending with the flourish: "Welcome to Shijiazhuang/Jinan!" or wherever they live). |
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tw
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:33 am Post subject: Re: Um |
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| My classes consist of 55 students per class so there are limits to what I can do. |
I have had five lessons and my class sizes range from almost sixty to this afternoon's almost seventy. I still have two more lessons tomorrow and Lord only knows how many students in each of those lessons.
The FAO guy had told me about 50-55 students a class, when I asked him about the larger class size, he just said, "It's only about another ten students."  The English teacher responsible told me that they have been doing it this way for years because there isn't enough time to allocate and the college doesn't have enough money to hire more FT's.
I can see this school year going to be a waste of time.
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kev7161
Joined: 06 Feb 2004
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Location: Suzhou, China
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:59 am Post subject: |
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| The English teacher responsible told me that they have been doing it this way for years because there isn't enough time to allocate and the college doesn't have enough money to hire more FT's. |
Why not take those extra 10 to 20 per class and create one more class for you to teach. Instead of hiring another teacher, just pay you an extra, oh, 1000rmb per month (or something - whatever you and the school work out). |
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eslstudies
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:15 am Post subject: |
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Kevin, if you've ever done school timetabling, you'd realise this solution only works if you think of it before you timetable, not after.
As for numbers, once you're over 30, imo, they become irrelevant. May as well fill a lecture theatre. However, chances are the parents are actually paying extra for this "privilege" of having A. Whitey teaching Xiao Wang. So guess who's making money on this? Not A. Whitey. |
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tw
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:34 am Post subject: |
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| kev7161 wrote: |
| Why not take those extra 10 to 20 per class and create one more class for you to teach. Instead of hiring another teacher, just pay you an extra, oh, 1000rmb per month (or something - whatever you and the school work out). |
The problem is that all my lessons are with two combined classes of students, each class with about thirty students. My contract states that I teach 20 hours a week, and if they were to break those lessons into two lessons then I'd be teaching 28 hours a week instead of the current 14. Between teaching 14 hours averaging 60 students per room and teaching 20 hours a week with smaller classes, I will take the 14 hours. |
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william wallace
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Teaching: EAP to post high school/wanna be undergrads. The poor Gao Kou folk.
Learning : Keep my big mouth shut, and focus on THIS being my very very last year in E...S....L |
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Cognition
Joined: 22 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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Another year at the teacher's college. Seven hours a day with the same class. Forty-two contact hours a week. Arioch, I loathe you and your 16-hour weeks!  I can't even get smashed on my day off because I need to get up at 5 the next day (sob). |
So what are you on? 40 or 50 thousand Yuan a month? Anything less than that and you are a first class MUG! |
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Cognition
Joined: 22 Mar 2007
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| You won't fund retirement doing what you are now. |
Is that true? In theory if a person were making enough money couldn't one put, say, 5,000 yuan a month into their own diversified portfolio and come out all right given enough years? |
Given enough years, yes. I reckon around 2,000 years should do the trick. |
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Cognition
Joined: 22 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject: Re: Um |
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Ah, but Eslstudies things can go wrong even for you!
"My father was a lawyer," says Walter Levy, an internationally known German-born oil consultant in New York, "and he had taken out an insurance policy in 1903, and every month he had made the payments faithfully. It was a 20-year policy, and when it came due, he cashed it in and bought a single loaf of bread." |
Just because things can go wrong for anyone doesn't mean that you shouldn't prepare for your future! Anyone could get hit by a car at any time but that doesn't mean we shouldn't look both ways when crossing the road or that we should play on the highway blindfolded. |
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