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mrsquirrel
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| I'm gonna finish up the book. I have 1 lesson to go in each of my classes. That should occupy the time between now and the end of March. I know the kids have already checked out, but I'm gonna do my lesson anyways. |
I planned to do that as well.
Then I saw this big spiritual hammer chipping away at my soul and I thought to myself do I want to die and come back as a used car salesman or do I want to keep my soul and come back as a TESOL trainer.
you can guess what I did.
Lovely BMW here. low mileage. |
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cbclark4
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Location: Masan
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| mrsquirrel wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
| I'm gonna finish up the book. I have 1 lesson to go in each of my classes. That should occupy the time between now and the end of March. I know the kids have already checked out, but I'm gonna do my lesson anyways. |
I planned to do that as well.
Then I saw this big spiritual hammer chipping away at my soul and I thought to myself do I want to die and come back as a used car salesman or do I want to keep my soul and come back as a TESOL trainer.
you can guess what I did.
Lovely BMW here. low mileage. |
must follow textbook must follow textbook must follow textbook
Locke keep pressing that button every hour press the button
must follow textbook must follow textbook must follow textbook
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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i think someone at the board blocked youtube in my classrooms... i tried using the "merry christmas, mr. bean" episode in class today (after a short lesson on christmas vocab, christmas rhymes activity), and the kids liked it, hell even my co-teacher liked it!
we didn't finish the whole thing, but i used it for 20m.... that was the most peaceful 20m i've had all month. |
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tob55
Joined: 29 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:17 pm Post subject: Possibilities |
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| So what do you do in public school from now until March 1st other than Winter camps? Do you sit in the office a lot and be bored or do you take some time off? |
If you want to get away from your school for a couple of days you could take in a teacher training seminar. There will one for sure that I know is offered during the month of January. Schools are often willing to let native teachers attend training sessions during the down times when it is going to improve the teacher, which they see as a benefit to them.
Perhaps you could make plans to do something constructive that wows your school. Really, I am not kidding. My public school has given me lots of freedom to be creative during the break time, and it has been a tremendous boost to my overall position. The last three years I have been able to write four curriculum guides for my high school program that the school paid me to work on while I was at home putting together the manuscript. Most of the time schools have no idea of what to do with the foreign teacher because the teacher doesn't ask for options.
Maybe writing isn't your thing, but if you are creative and approach your school with ideas that will make everyone look better from the perspective of education, you will be surprised at the willingness of school admins to work with you. My school principal shows great respect to me simply because I work hard to make him and the school look better. He and other head people from the high school that employs me are often talking to Provincial officers and sharing lots of good news about what I am doing for them. It has provided me with lots of opportunities I would never have received if I had not taken the time to inquire about how I might be able to help the school in some way. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| nomad-ish wrote: |
i think someone at the board blocked youtube in my classrooms... i tried using the "merry christmas, mr. bean" episode in class today (after a short lesson on christmas vocab, christmas rhymes activity), and the kids liked it, hell even my co-teacher liked it!
we didn't finish the whole thing, but i used it for 20m.... that was the most peaceful 20m i've had all month. |
If someone did that I would be really angry. I use Grammar rock to review grammar points. I use the roadrunner cartoons to review verb tenses.
In fact if no one told me and I planned a lesson that involved youtube.
I would cancel the lesson and blame the person who blocked the site. |
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Fishead soup wrote: |
| nomad-ish wrote: |
i think someone at the board blocked youtube in my classrooms... i tried using the "merry christmas, mr. bean" episode in class today (after a short lesson on christmas vocab, christmas rhymes activity), and the kids liked it, hell even my co-teacher liked it!
we didn't finish the whole thing, but i used it for 20m.... that was the most peaceful 20m i've had all month. |
If someone did that I would be really angry. I use Grammar rock to review grammar points. I use the roadrunner cartoons to review verb tenses.
In fact if no one told me and I planned a lesson that involved youtube.
I would cancel the lesson and blame the person who blocked the site. |
yeah, i was pretty surprised. right now i'm trying to find a program (a free one) that converts .flv to .avi (i can currently download stuff from youtube, but most of the classroom computers don't have the program to play .flv files). |
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crazy_arcade
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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Our exams are late this year since they won't start until Friday the 14th.
I wish they were at this time every year rather than at the beginning of December.
This week, my grade 2 classes are cancelled for self-study. With the grade 1 students I'm doing Jeopardy review.
During exams I can stay home and do my work there.
After the exams I'll do Christmas and New Years cards.
Then, I should do something cultural but I haven't come up with a good idea yet.
I was thinking about showing "The grinch" (original) and having a bunch of
discussion questions to go along with it. Stopping the video at certain points to ask questions and giving candy canes for great answers.
A lot of teachers just show videos but that's pretty lazy. A friend of mine has already been showing videos for a week and a half and only plans to do that until the semester is up. He doesn't even make worksheets or anything. |
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ceesgetdegrees
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| So what do you do in public school from now until March 1st other than Winter camps? Do you sit in the office a lot and be bored or do you take some time off? |
20 days partying hard in thailand followed by 3 weeks of 3 hour days, then the rest of the time is vacation in country, good time to go skiing i guess. |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| ^ I love making those special worksheets that look so good on the floor or torn into small bits and scattered around the room. They look so decorative. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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| mrsquirrel wrote: |
| ^ I love making those special worksheets that look so good on the floor or torn into small bits and scattered around the room. They look so decorative. |
It's called Dada art. |
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