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dogshed
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| Ha! I'll never work at a public school. Never. |
I get to do whatever I want and my teachers seem to like it that way. Most foreign public school teachers I've met really like their job. I think the stories we see on the internet are the exception just like all the bad hagwan stories.
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andrew
Joined: 30 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
We had a rookie temp at my middle school last year and I went along to help her with her extra listening class the first few times. What a mess. It took almost ten minutes just to sort out attendence and then she had a handout that had about 15 minutes worth of material on it. Almost no one was paying attentiion and I finally had to get up and do a patrol of the rows, telling students to put things away and pay attention (this was her class - not a 'co-teaching' class). I ended up just taking over from her and pulling things out of my ass. After a few lessons she ended up just showing them DVDs for the rest of the term.
But she was hot. |
So in short, you didn't get any. |
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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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My co-teacher just apologised for saying to me, "Be seated".
She didn't know how to politely ask someone to take a seat.
I told her some options, and she was very happy.
We need to be gentle with Korean speakers of English. They are sometimes very literal. Korean language does not have the nice verbs English has which makes questions sound polite. |
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JD1982
Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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| nobbyken wrote: |
My co-teacher just apologised for saying to me, "Be seated".
She didn't know how to politely ask someone to take a seat.
I told her some options, and she was very happy.
We need to be gentle with Korean speakers of English. They are sometimes very literal. Korean language does not have the nice verbs English has which makes questions sound polite. |
Does "PLEASE" sound familiar to your co-teacher? |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| JD1982 wrote: |
Does "PLEASE" sound familiar to your co-teacher? |
Just what I was thinking 
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| dogshed wrote: |
| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| Ha! I'll never work at a public school. Never. |
I get to do whatever I want and my teachers seem to like it that way. Most foreign public school teachers I've met really like their job. I think the stories we see on the internet are the exception just like all the bad hagwan stories.
-Jeff |
I never said I didn't like my job. It's head and shoulders above the hagwan crap that I used to have to deal with. There's just a couple of co-teachers that get on my nerves from time to time. Luckily, they are only 2 out of 8, so it's still not bad at all. |
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kiwigal
Joined: 16 Mar 2007
Location: South Korea
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I like public school teaching most of the time. I get a lot of freedom in what I teach. I teach at a rural middle school. I always give the co-teacher courtesy by asking them in the morning if there is anything special that they would like to cover with the class that we teach together that day. We try our best to accommodate each other. One of the teachers never comes to his classes anyway. He just spends the classes I'm scheduled in with him for in the "male teacher's restroom" smoking and playing chess. Or sleeping. Every once in a while, he comes in to yell at the students for 5 minutes then promptly leaves again.
One of my teachers and I have a full on co-teaching system, I lead the class and she proactively translates and backs me up, unless she has a special agenda, which she always clears with me before the class and I take the translating and parroting role. This is actually nice every once in a while.
The other, my 'official' co-teacher is a nut case, but he turns up to class, and scares the hell out of me by pacing up and down with a scowl on his face. I'm terrified he's going to blast me for something in front of the students, but he doesn't. This guy has been known for taking me out of the room and lecturing me for 30 minutes about obeying "Korean customs" (I forgot to say hello to a teacher one morning).
Then after the class he smiles at me and says "Thank you for teaching the students."
Go figure! 
Anyway, I'm mostly happy here. I also teach at the Elementary school one day a week, 6 classes in one day. That's tiring, and the co-teacher is pretty cool, for the first 4 classes anyway. Then after lunch, the poor woman gets tired and falls asleep in the back of the room. It's ok, those classes are the sweet ickle 5th graders.  |
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