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cruisemonkey · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:58 pm Post subject: Co-teacher Who Gives The Answers

This year I have a new, rural 'second' middle school I attend one moning a week to teach three classes. My co-teacher there will not let the students answer any of my questions - she blurts out the answers before the students can even start to think about them. It's as though she has a unconscious, psychological need to show the students she 'knows' English. Sometimes, she will even start giving the students answers to questions before I ask them, and before I've covered the material on which the questions are based. Evil or Very Mad

It's driving me crazy! It destroys the 'flow' of my lessons and lessens/negates the the learning process for the students. NONE of my other, seven co-teachers do this.

If you've had a co-teacher that did this, how did you handle it?... I don't want to end up in a K-prison convicted of co-teachercide. Wink

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crusher_of_heads · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject:

Talk to her about it privately.. If she keeps it up, show her up in class-ask "Now, will coteacher answer for students what insecure means?"

"Will coteacher answer what puerile means?"

"Will coteacher answer why she does not let Korean students answer questions?"

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

Ask her to sit down and pat her on the head each time she gives you a correct answer. Or just ask her to stfu.

Carlyles Ghost · Joined: 04 Jul 2007

I had a co-teacher who did that. I asked her to stop doing it. She stopped. She had difficulty stopping, and I had to help her stop (by gently reminding her that the questions are for the students to answer), but she got there.

DongtanTony · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Bundang

Ask her to say "rural walrus" three times fast...that might shut her up.

farrepatt · Joined: 27 Jan 2008

My co-teacher does the same thing, not so much the answering questions, but repeating everything I say while the students are in the process of answering. I think it's because her English is very poor and she doesn't want the students to find out, also, she feels intimidated by the fact that the school has brought in a foreigner to teach her subject. I've been too nervous to speak to her (I avoid conflict), but I think it's probably the best way.

Kwangjuchicken · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:15 pm Post subject:

Ask this question?

"If you have two things that could either be the same or different, what would be the three major points, in reverse alphabetical order, from a taditional Korean phylosophy, grounded in an almost total western point of view from the ealry 16th century, that would most distinguish if they are the same or different? True or false?

If she says true, say no, it is false. If she says false, say no, it is true.

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cruisemonkey · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject:

OK everybody... stop fighting or I'll put you in the hallway on your knees with your arms held straight up over your heads! Wink

Thank for the replies... I'll speak to her (nicely) and ask her to stop - I'll give her a couple of weeks (I KNOW she won't be able to stop immediately, and 'cold turkey'). If that doesn't work, I'll start giving her points on the board for every answer. Cool

Kwangjuchicken · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject:

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

It's not a "T/F" question.