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[John_ESL_White]

Native English Teacher's Classroom Rules

1) Do Not Touch the Native English Teacher (선생님과 선생님의 모든 물건을 만지지 말것)
Do not touch the native English teacher's books
Do not touch the native English teacher's cell phone
Do not touch the native English teacher's coffee/water/tea


2) Do Touch Another Student (학생들간의)
Do not touch another student's books
Do not touch another student's cell phone

3) Fighting - hitting, throwing things, yelling, spitting = GO SEE 원장님 and do not come back to the foreign teacher's class that day (싸움한 학생들은 다시 교실로 들어올수 없다)

4) Writing on the Desk or Wall = GO SEE 원장님

5) Do Not Eat in the Native English Teacher's Class (교실에서 음식을 먹지말것)

6) Do Not Drink in the Native English Teacher's class (교실에서 음료수를 마시지말것)

7) Raise Your hand if you need to go to the bathroom

9) Try to speak in English (영어로 말하려고 노력해 보기)

If you have a ball, a game, a card, a toy, a booger, a phone, an MP3 player, a pack of stickers, a sticker, an eraser, a pencil, a pen, a diary, a notebook, or anything else and you use it to disrupt the Native English Teacher's classroom, you will GO SEE 원장님

9) If you raise your middle finger to the Native English teacher or to another student, you have to GO SEE 원장님 and you can not come back to the Native English Teacher's clasroom that day

10) If you say a say a very bad word in English or Korean to the Native English teacher or to another student, you have to GO SEE 원장님 and you can not come back to the Native English teacher's class that day



You will GO SEE 원장님 in her office and not in my classroom.


After any trip to 원장님, you will need to write an apology stating what you did wrong (반성문 쓰기) and why you want to come back to the foreign teacher's class. This will need to be signed by the 원장님, your mother, your father, and one other teacher at vvvvvvLanguage School. ( 부모님과 다른선생님께 서명 받기)
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This is only for the Native English teacher's Monday and Wednesday classes at vvvvvvand not for the Tuesday and Thursday 'club' classes.

Discipline during Tuesday and Thursday classes are up to the Korean classroom manager who is sitting in the classroom, not the Native English teacher.

Discipline problems during "club classes" will be ignored by the native English speaker until taken care of by the Korean classroom manager.


I agree with these rules and will not cry or complain when they are enforced:


Student Name: _________________

Date: _________________

[I'm no Picasso]

11. No hitting other people in the face with your slippers.

12. No throwing other people's belongings out the window.

Just suggestions, based on experience.

I've actually confiscated slippers in class before. And I no longer believe anyone is just, "But Teacher, hot! Very hot! Oh, so hot!".

[antoniothegreat]

good idea. but some thoughts...
first, i wouldnt put the exact punishment. first, that leaves no option to bend rules for certain situations. example, minji talks on her phone and gets punished. later, you have pizza day, and sojin talks on her phone, you dont mind because it is party day. then minji complains, you are playing favorites.

next, i dont like the idea of sending them off and having someone else do your punishments, that takes the power out of your hands. what happens when 원장님 is not there that day? just maybe list possible punishments...

lastly, do not make a list of things you dont want them to touch. if you leave your wedding ring on your desk one day, can they touch it? you didnt write that on the list.... perhaps writing "do not touch my stuff" or "do not touch things that dont belong to you"

lastly, maybe just one rule is needed "act in this class as you would in a korean teacher's class."

but anyways, i commend you. if you act professional , your kids and coteachers will, or should... treat you professionally.

[John_ESL_White]

[maingman]

Jiyeon Kim sent a message to the members of Planet ESL Teachers - South Korea.

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Subject: How to discipline Korean kids in a classroom?

Often teachers get confusend with Korean kids about how to discipline them in a classroom. Some times teachers point at kids not calling their names, then ask them to stand in behind the classroom or ask them to be outside of classroom. This makes some times children feel very ashamed and feel the teachers are very harsh to them. Even often parents come to a school and complain about teachers� behavior.

Here there are cultural differences and teachers need to understand. In Korea, pointing at some one with finger is considered very rude and probably you don�t see it quite often. In a classroom, if a kid get pointed out with finger, the kid gets automatically already feeling ashamed and close his/her mind right away toward the teacher and don�t listen to the teacher any more.

Instead of pointing at a kind, definitely teachers need to put their effort to memorize kids names. Korean names are preferable, but even english names are fine. That shows interests on kids for sure. In my opinion, I think this is the least thing teachers should do.

Instead of pointing at a kind, definitely teachers need to put their effort to memorize kids names. Korean names are preferable, but even english names are fine. That shows interests on kids for sure. In my opinion, I think this is the least thing teachers should do.

Rather than leaving kids behind the classroom or out of classroom, trying giving candies to children who behave better. Korean kids in general are very competitive because of their parents� pressure as you problably already know. Some of you may worry that Candy has so much sugar, so it may make kids go crazy more. But, recent study from one British university reports that sugar or candy doesn�t effect on children�s behavior.

Also, learning and using a few korean sentences or words are really helpful. When teacher uses this in a classroom to discipline, korean kids are really shocked and since then they think that the teachers would understand anything they might say in Korean. So they no longer use Korean in a classroom.

Here are the a few words and sentences.
�Be quiet� : Joyonghee Haseyo (조용히 하세요)
�Come and Sit down�:Waseo Anzseyo (와서 앉으세요)
�Look at the book� : Chaek Boseyo (책 보세요)

These are the recommendations that I can give and these advices came from teachers after they practiced and it made differences in their classrooms. I hope this information helps teachers to have less hard time.

If you have any more advice, please feel free to comment and post. Please also visit our Forum section on our website, www.PlanetESL.com. We keep posting messages that may help our teachers.

[ChinaBoy]

Screw that shit.

We certainly don't want to shame bad kids, do we??

[I'm no Picasso]

[Xuanzang]

[Kimchieluver]

[CentralCali]

Jiyeon Kim is full of bs. That crap wasn't true here 30 years ago and it's not true today. It's what JK and many other Koreans wish were true.

[I'm no Picasso]

[Kimchieluver]

[T-J]

My two cents, if you need this list of rules and a signature, you have already let your class run ram-shot over you and the list will probably not help.

Also, drop the gerunds and stick to polite command form in your Korean if you are going to use it. Maybe have your wife proof it.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[John_ESL_White]