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some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

I am wondering why my school doesn't have the extra resources that are supposed to come with the textbooks. All we have are the books and the DVD's.

Where are all the picture cards, word/sentence cards and all the other stuff we are supposed to get?

Does anyone else in an elementary school have this situation?

The textbooks are bad enough with the resources, but without them....
they are F******** awful!!

It's as bad as any crap hagwan!!!!!!!!

kigolo1881 · Joined: 30 Jul 2006

Sorry man,
but at my school we got all the picture cards, flash cards, velcro lined and laminated visual aids that come along with each chapter of the book.

I'm quite surprised that we have a well stocked armory for me to battle the 40 kids every day.

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

Yeah, that really sucks.

A previous teacher ordered some 8 x 11 laminated cards for the chapters from www.redpoint.co.kr Theyre nice to use as visual aides. I browsed the site, though, and it looks like each chapter costs a few thousand won. My school has no budget, so they're not going to buy any more, though.

If I want visual aides that resemble the cards I have to cut out the cards in the back of the book and photo copy them a few times at 163%. They look like shit, though, as I don't have a color copier. What really blows is that I don't have books of my own . . . I use hand-me-downs from students, which means most of the cards are already ripped out. It's hard to plan games and stuff when I don't know what cards the students will use.

(It makes me look like a jackass, too, because we sometimes visit other schools to watch demo classes, and the Korean teachers there have tons of visual resources for all the chapters. Flash cards, laminated 8 x 11s, laminated screen shots of the CD, large felt sheets with velcro words and sentences, magnetic "Let's play" "Look and Speak," etc. strips, and so on. Hell, most of the time I don't even have access to a printer.

Well, I was going to add a few links, but I have a surprise class right now. Evil or Very Mad

nobbyken · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Location: Yongin ^^

We got the full works here as well. My CT ordered the materials from a Korean education website, for about 700K.
You even get backgrounds for the role-plays, and loads of flashcards to use. Each set is labelled as to what class and unit it relates to.
Cuts down on the practical planning of classes.

Have a chat with your Co-Teacher, or a good English speaking teacher at your school if you can.

They do make a huge difference.

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

There should be some kind of budget for that. When I worked for an elementery school we had tons of stuff. Talk to your co-teacher and get things ordered. If that doesn't work talk to your local supervisor with the board of education.

Board of Education is called Kyoyukcheoug in Korean
Superviser is called Chanhaksa.

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

My school doesn't have anything but the books and the CD's that came with the books. I don't even have my own classroom. The other schools right down the street from me have everything. The books, the flashcards, the extra resources, pimped out English classroom, everything.

The extra resources require money. If you don't have it then the principal at your school thought money was better spent elsewhere.

some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

Thanks for your help. I know I can print out larger versions of the textbook stuff.....

But I was wondering why my school doesn't have this stuff and how common this situation is.

I will talk to my co-teacher about it and if that doesn't help, I will contact the education office.

Thanks

Alyallen · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject:

Basically what ttompatz said was golden. The first week of classes, my co-teacher and I had the students remove all the cards from the back of their books. We could then set up the activities in advance. Since we didn't need a separate set for each class, the extra cards were used as backing for other games or activites I printed up. Nice free sturdy cardboard is a wonderful thing.

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

It's your responsibility alone to create all the necessary visual aids...GET BUSY! Mad

ddeubel · Joined: 20 Jul 2005

Yes, the idea of cutting out the cards prior is superb and that's what I did and recommend. Also, put the cards into ziplocks. Buy a whole pile, they will come in handy. I also recommend keeping them in class. If the kids are carting them around, you can be sure they'll use them. Then learn a good set number of games to play around this vocabulary, teach the students these games and then each lesson, they can do them. Cuts down on the explanation.

I'm planning on giving all the new teachers entering SMOE a CD survival pack which will have all the things they need to teach. New teachers need these easy to fall back on, easy to organize around materials. Ppts and flashcards for each unit / theme, graphic organizers, game sheets, pics for mini books, battleship/bingo and so on..... I'll make it available in the fall to other teachers.

DD