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wayfarer
Joined: 05 Jun 2007
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 Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:00 pm Post subject: Native teachers, how would you answer these questions? |
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My co-teacher gave me these questions and said that the Education Office of our city wants me to write some answers to them. I have nothing particularly special to say about the first two, and I don't think I want to be truthful about the third one, so can anyone be kind enough to answer them? This is your chance to send a message to the powers-that-be......
1. The best things and the difficulties by a native teacher in Korea.
2. How to get rid of conflict owing to cultural difference
3. The thing that you want to say to Korean co-teacher. |
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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it's a trick.
you're not actually supposed to say what you really think, just give some mild form of an answer, so they can nod their heads and post it in some newsletter somewhere
have fun (sorry, i'm having a bad day) |
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davehere22
Joined: 06 Jun 2007
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: Native teachers, how would you answer these questions? |
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1. The best things and the difficulties by a native teacher in Korea.
2. How to get rid of conflict owing to cultural difference
3. The thing that you want to say to Korean co-teacher. |
1. I love the weather in Korea. I love the fact that Korea has 4 seasons.
2. Eat all the school lunches that smell like dog-food.
3. You are great. |
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Chamchiman
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
Location: Digging the Grave
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:27 pm Post subject: Re: Native teachers, how would you answer these questions? |
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| wayfarer wrote: |
My co-teacher gave me these questions and said that the Education Office of our city wants me to write some answers to them. I have nothing particularly special to say about the first two, and I don't think I want to be truthful about the third one, so can anyone be kind enough to answer them? This is your chance to send a message to the powers-that-be......
1. The best things and the difficulties by a native teacher in Korea.
2. How to get rid of conflict owing to cultural difference
3. The thing that you want to say to Korean co-teacher. |
Was it only you that got these questions, or did other teachers in your city get them as well? How's your relationship with your co-teacher? Are you sure you're not being set up?
If your city was really serious about number one and two, they'd get teachers to give their opinions anonymously. Number three is fishy. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| I have to fill our a yearly assesment of my situation. It's not confidential at all. I always make it seem like I'm content with the situation. Even if you make a legitimate gripe and word it well. They won't do anything about it. |
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Countrygirl
Joined: 19 Nov 2007
Location: in the classroom
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A Korean teacher I really respect is involved with this. She really wants to work to attract and keep good Foreign teachers in Korean schools. If her efforts will bring about good results, I don't know, but I hope for the best.
My school screwed me over recently; so in my reply I stated that if I didn't have children in this school, I would have pulled a midnight run. Basically, I don't care anymore whether I stay here or not. Let the chips fall where they may. |
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jay-shi
Joined: 09 May 2004
Location: On tour
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject: Re: Native teachers, how would you answer these questions? |
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| wayfarer wrote: |
1. The best things and the difficulties by a native teacher in Korea.
2. How to get rid of conflict owing to cultural difference
3. The thing that you want to say to Korean co-teacher. |
1. Seeing you every day & not being able to communicate to you how much I love you!
2. My learning Korean and fostering a better understanding of your lovely Korean mind. Killing your bigoted father, so we can both love each other and live happily ever after. After all I love you!
3. I love you! |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject: Re: Native teachers, how would you answer these questions? |
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| wayfarer wrote: |
My co-teacher gave me these questions and said that the Education Office of our city wants me to write some answers to them. I have nothing particularly special to say about the first two, and I don't think I want to be truthful about the third one, so can anyone be kind enough to answer them? This is your chance to send a message to the powers-that-be......
1. The best things and the difficulties by a native teacher in Korea.
2. How to get rid of conflict owing to cultural difference
3. The thing that you want to say to Korean co-teacher. |
1. My school, coworkers, and students have generally been very kind and respectful and I�ll take so many wonderful memories from my 4+? years here. The major difficulties in teaching are almost all brought about by having such a flawed curriculum and testing system.
2. Learn what is and what isn't bullshit by Korean standards, and don't put up with it if it's bullshit by Korean standards. If it's BS by western standards but unavoidable, learn to live with it.
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CT#1: You're just fantastic to work with, despite your poor pronunciation. I don't know how you do it - getting them to take English so seriously and improve so much - but the students are lucky to have you. So am I.
CT#2: The students are also lucky to have you, too, especially with your pronunciation. I just wish you could get out of your habit of feeding them answers. But your hard work doesn't go unnoticed, either by the students or me.
CT#3: You're pretty good at teaching a pretty crappy curriculum. Your support and cooperation is excellent, but you also need to get out of your habit of feeding students answers as well and need to find ways to give the high-level students more challenging stuff if they�re ever going to improve more and not flat-line.
CT#4: You're a super nice guy but we both know your English is just inadequate and isn't going to get much better. Thankfully you are good at motivating students. As we both know, your habit of never coming to my academic HS classes and doing something in the staff room instead is the best use of your time.
CT#5: You could be better but you could be worse. Yes, I'm thankful that I only need you for one class (mostly to take over for the last ten minutes because I have to run off to a MS class because of a scheduling conflict). You're going to have to figure out how to use some English as the language of instruction if you ever want to be a more effective teacher, so you may as well start sooner rather than later because I sure don't sense much improvement in your students.
Then, there are:
Ex-CT#1: You seemed all right but I don't blame you for switching careers and going into business.
Ex-CT#2: You were great. Pity you couldn't get along with our co-workers at all.
Ex-CT#3: Middle school is not for you, ma'am. You're lucky you're so good-looking, kind, and obsequious or I probably would have slapped you. Find a (very patient) foreign boyfriend before you lose your looks if you want to have any hope of ever reaching the point of being able to form a grammatical sentence to save your life.
Ex-CT#4: Get a job teaching adults or kindergarten. No kid over 10 is ever going to respect you. Oh, and remember those hopeless brats that I was always punishing when you were their main teacher and my CT? Some of them have turned into really great English students under CT#1. |
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