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[Yu_Bum_suk]

And thus ends a pretty decent term tainted only by one so-so and another crappy rookie co-teacher. How about you? Do you also find yourself with 6+ weeks of movie lessons, holidays and a few largely pointless summer break classes here and there?

With some classes I wish I could have done so much more with them this term but I'm also kind of happy to take a break from a few others for a while.

[faster]

I find myself with 8 weeks of no teaching at all. Pretty happy about it.

[mrsquirrel]

I've just been counting exam papers.

I liked it. Very therapeutic

[Alyallen]

My 3rd graders are done.

I'm not sure about 4th and 5th grade.

I think my sixth graders are finished.

This is the complete opposite of my first year where we had lessons up till vacation.....Things somehow worked out this way...but I think I'm going to have to teach SOMETHING but just not stuff from the book....

[ilovebdt]

Yes, two more weeks of not very labour intensive classes, then 14 days of summer conversation group, vacation, then another week of school and I am off home. Yay!!!

ilovebdt

[mj roach]

Sounds like 6-8 weeks of 'high tides' for posts on daves!

[shantaram]

I'm elementary. I think my 3rd graders are finished. My 4th graders are finished but we are teaching them some different ways of saying hello. 5th grade will probably run to the end of the semester. I desperately wish 6th grade would finish because personal politics among the teachers means no preparation is going into the lessons. Extra classes chug along.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[mj roach]

Good, glad to hear you managed not to get trapped at school with no A/C doing nothing all day because someone decided that was what the F/T should do.

[Jizzo T. Clown]

Once I finish out the week, I'll be done teaching anything substantial until August 21st.

My principal managed to get enough volunteers for a summer camp running three hours a day for five days, smack dab in the middle of my vacation time , so I get 22 total vacation days this summer, which is still way better than I got back home.

[sojourner1]

My students are at it all summer long, just same as any other time. Hagwon students see some 50 dreaded weeks a year of classroom schooling with no breaks, recesses, or movie days. I give final tests, but immediately start a new course book within a couple days. The only thing that stops me from starting a new book sooner is waiting for them to arrive after being ordered! It makes me mad how they push me to finish books by a certain date and then not have new books ordered yet! I think they need to give me a VCR and/or let me take the kids to the playground! What are they thinking?


Hagwon is such a grind, no breaks, other than those 2 weeks out of the year. No way is anyone getting me to teach for a hagwon ever again. I need a break after 5 solid months without one single 3 day weekend or canceled class. I will have worked 7 months straight by vacation time on a full schedule of 30 teaching hours a week, requiring lots of prep time for 30 unique classes per week.

Public school employment is calling me as soon as I am free of a hagwons' E-2.....

[yingwenlaoshi]

Plenty of time to practice balloon tying and fake flower water-spraying gags.

[passport220]

Or come up with a new metaphor for Foreign English Teachers in Korea to replace the old stale ones that have been beaten into the ground.

[yingwenlaoshi]

[Jizzo T. Clown]

I was actually going to teach a pop song today and one of my CTs walks in with a VCR and "Cool Runnings" and said "This will be suitable for two classes because it's 98 minutes." He asked me what kind of activity we should do with the movie, and I told him that it came as a complete surprise that he wanted to show a video because I thought a song would be more "educational," especially since the film has Korean subtitles.

Oh well....guess I'll just find a comfortable seat in the back of the room for the next week. Maybe bring my iPod to school and catch some Zzzs.