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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:31 am Post subject: Is this normal elementary student behavior? |
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When I walk into a classroom the kids go crazy like I'm some pop idol. When I eat lunch all the kids I teach look at me. When I wave at them all the girls cover their mouths with their hands and get all embarrassed.
Also, when I walk around the hallways, the students follow me around and watch my every move. They always find random reasons to drop by my teacher's office. And after school as I'm walking home all the girls follow me and they keep asking for my cell phone number.
I don't give the kids any candy or sweets or anything. The most praise I've ever given was "you did great."
Stuff like this happen to anyone else? How do you handle it? |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:38 am Post subject: |
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Yes, it's pretty common. You just have to learn to ignore a lot of it.
I tend to say hello, how are you a lot in the hallways.
Just smile and don't let it bother you. |
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passport220
Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Location: Gyeongsangbuk-do province
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:27 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I think most of us get it. When I walk into my girls middle school classes they go nuts. It is more about the fun they are having being excited together than it is about you or me. The best thing to do is find the most effective way to channel the energy they are directing toward you into excitement about the lesson you are teaching.
The cat calls of �I love you�, �Oh baby, oh baby!� do not get an acknowledgement. But doing your best to get a correct pronunciation of a vocabulary word I just introduced makes me swoon. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:36 am Post subject: |
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| I wonder how I can direct all this attention and energy into something productive. |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:56 am Post subject: |
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Sweat shop?
Start making T-shirts in class  |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 4:28 am Post subject: Re: Is this normal elementary student behavior? |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
| Stuff like this happen to anyone else? |
I'll take your message one sentence at a time.
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| When I walk into a classroom the kids go crazy like I'm some pop idol. |
When I first got this job, I knew that this is what WOULD happen if I walked into a classroom.
I am afraid that the teachers would get angry with me for distracting their students.
So I try to stay out of the classrooms.
However, the classrooms have windows on the hallway side, and I distract the kids when I walk down the hallway.
This morning, the first graders were learning the National Anthem.
I couldn't resist the temptation to stop in the hallway and sing along.
I'm probably in trouble already.
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| When I eat lunch all the kids I teach look at me. |
At the school where I am now, there is no cafeteria, so I eat with the other teachers.
But I have eaten in school cafeterias before, so I know what you mean.
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| When I wave at them all the girls cover their mouths with their hands and get all embarrassed. |
They giggle when I greet them in English, they giggle when I greet them in Korean.
It must be a novelty for them to hear a foreigner speak EITHER language.
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| Also, when I walk around the hallways, the students follow me around and watch my every move. |
When I walk down the school hallway, I guard my 엉덩이 very carefully.
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| They always find random reasons to drop by my teacher's office. |
Same here.
I try to have a song, game, or picture book prepared for my visitors.
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| And after school as I'm walking home all the girls follow me and they keep asking for my cell phone number. |
I haven't had that.
You must be sexier than I am.
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| I don't give the kids any candy or sweets or anything. The most praise I've ever given was "you did great." |
Me either.
I sometimes feel undeserving.
But then again, I don't think I deserve the contemptuous treatment we get from Korean adults, either.
So it comes out about even.
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| How do you handle it? |
Are you kidding?
What do you think I came here for! |
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