Korean Job Discussion Forums

[jellyteecha]

1. No sense of humour.
2. Takes self far to seriously (why??)
3. Always has an opinion about everything even the things they don't know about.
4.Knows everything, even the things they don't know about.
5.Says things for self-interested ego not for what they really believe even when they don't know what they're opinions are.
6.Overly complicates everything even the things they don't know anything about.
7. Always lecturing never listening to anything they don't know about.
8. Aren't interested in anything they don't know about.

Has anyone else noticed these traits, I have in myself and in other teachers I have taught with around the world. Chicken or egg, are they born for the job or does the job make them that way.

[Lizara]

I haven't noticed much of any of those traits in any of the teachers I've met here... or the teachers I knew in Canada.

[captain kirk]

I disagree. If teachers were that messed up why would Harpeau the counsellor need to sell used guitars on the side for extra dosh?

[Ya-ta Boy]

I thought the list was going to say things like:

1) Teachers speak slowly and over-enunciate.
2) Teachers repeat everything at least two times.
3) Teachers carry pens and correct grammar on shop signs.
4) Teachers correct other people's grammar when they are speaking.

I would have agreed with a list like that. Can't argue with truth. But the OP's list is silly.

[peppermint]

the only thing I've ever noticed is that elementary school teachers of a certain age tend to treat everyone younger like one of their students

[ThePoet]

I don't know, but I think the OP doesn't know what he's talking about even though he is expressing an opinion about it and thats my opinion about that!


Poet

[VanIslander]

I agree with ThePoet, peppermint, Ya-ta Boy, captain kirk, Lizara.

Perhaps this newly-joined jellyteecha is venting about a particular individual met. *shrug*

[Ya-ta Boy]

[mindmetoo]

[Lao Wai]

I have to agree with the elementary teachers 'talking down' to people younger than them. When I was doing my teaching practicum it drove me insane that these 40+ year old female teachers would act as though I was 12 years old when talking to me (some motherly, some condescending). Either way, it was still annoying.

[Moldy Rutabaga]

A bellhop is called to the desk to take care of three honeymooning couples. The first is a man with a nurse. "Wow!" thinks the young man. "He's a lucky guy, marrying a sexy nurse." The second is a man with a counselor wife. "Maybe she's kinky and crazy about sex, like those psychologists are!" thinks the bellhop. The third man has a teacher for a wife. "Yuck, who would want a crotchety old teacher who never smiles," growls the bellhop.

At the end of the week the bellhop is taking the suitcases back down and asks the first man, how was your week. The first man says, "Awful. Son, don't marry a nurse. Every night she just said, ten o'clock, lights out and go to sleep." The second man says, "Terrible. Boy, don't marry a counselor. Every night she just said, 'your time is up, I'll see you next week.'"

The bellhop isn't expecting much when he asks the third man how his week was. He says, "Terrific! Make sure you marry a teacher." "Really?" asks the bellhop in surprise. "Yeah! Every night she said, 'we're going to do this over and over until you get it right'."

Ken:>

[JeJuJitsu]

Having taught back home before coming to Korea, I have to say teacher's in general are whiners and complainers. Why? Dunno. Just is.

[Gamecock]

Having taught back home, I have to say that teachers are generally among the best people I've ever met...

Concerning the OP's observations, I have to say, if someone was an a$$ before they were a teacher, they will still be one as a teacher.

[oneofthesarahs]

The worst thing about teachers is that they like talking about teaching. A lot. I'm all about enthusiasm, but it gets boring after a while. Especially in Korea, because let's face it: most of our jobs are pretty much the same.

[jlb]