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nomad-ish · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 7:51 am Post subject: What do your students call you?

so, it's the first class at your new school... what do you tell your students to call you?

...and did you receive any resistance regarding this from your korean co-teachers/co-workers?

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captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

I wish my students to call me, 'white man from across the sea who fell from the sky in a great, flying bird made of fire and thunder'. Or, 'great, heavenly teacher'.

Actually there was a grade six student, a real comedian who looks like Eye-gor from the movie Young Frankenstein, called me 'oh great, heavenly teacher' but he was being facetious. That's ok tho.

Draz · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Location: Land of Morning Clam

I told them to call me "Ms [last name]" but they call me that only maybe 10% of the time.

Usually they just call me teacher. I don't mind, because usually if they are trying to get my attention there are more interesting things to focus on than whether they know my name or not.

Atavistic

icicle · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Location: Gyeonggi do Korea

In my hagwon all of the teachers are called "First Name" Teacher so that is what I have been called by the students since the first time I had a class with them.

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

son-sang-nimh, Ttompatz son-sang-nimh, Ttompatz teacher are all used and I accept them all.

Sometimes (jokingly) I am also known as "jamie-op-ta teacher" but I never hear "she-rock".

The only students who use ban-mal with me are some of the 6th grade students and they quickly get a "cuff" in the air for it.

Stormy · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Location: Here & there

Usually teacher, stormy or, less often, stormy teacher or english teacher. One of the teachers in my teacher's English class calls me miss stormy which is funny, I keep telling her to just call me stormy but she doesn't.

On my first day I was asked what I wanted to be called and I said I didn't mind, I was happy with stormy. They said it had to be teacher stormy or stormy teacher because that was more respectful. Now it changes from day to day which doesn't phase me.

BS.Dos. · Joined: 29 Mar 2007

Teacher usually, but some of my better students call me by my first name, which I actually prefer.

tongtongee · Joined: 17 May 2008 Location: here and there

Atavistic · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 6:13 am Post subject:

Whenever a kid uses banmal with me, I give them a death glare and say "why are you speaking banmal?"

They never do it again.

But I think I can get away with just a simple death glare because it's elementary school.

fustiancorduroy · Joined: 12 Jan 2007

My foreign language high school students call me Mr. Fustiancorduroy.

whatajerk · Joined: 06 Feb 2007

they call me Mappoggee Teacher because i shave my head bald.

Young FRANKenstein · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject:

"God"

jvalmer · Joined: 06 Jun 2003

It's a mixture of all of them. Problem is that a couple Korean teachers actually think everyone calls each other by their first names in the West. Don't know where they get that impression though. So, I have given up trying to change it.

sojourner1 · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject:

They called me, "Scott Teacher." For the 1st several months, I got called, "Sky teacher," who fell out of the sky. In my hagwon, it was standard for students to know and say, <first name> plus Teacher for all the teachers, including Korean English teachers. Much of their instructions on how to act and what to say was communicated to them in Korean from Korean teachers so this made it standard.