Korean Job Discussion Forums

[moosehead]

there's the one where I was assigned to make flashcards with images off the web so one of them needed people walking together I found this pic with characters all dressed in rainbow colors carrying a rainbow flag

it went over really well the K teachers didn't know the rainbow represented gay pride (it was from a gay pride insignia)

another time I gave some lyrics to a KT because the song was the same as her name - from a very popular oldie but goodie in the song - however there was the slang word ball (for the word "screw") is in there - in essence the song said "x really likes to ball - she's planning to teach the song to students

so anyone else? I've done a few others maybe will post later if this thread doesn't get hijacked

[dean_burrito]

When students go to sleep I give the awake students a marker, paper, and some tape. I let them write whatever they want as long as it is in English. Then they put a sign on the sleeping kids back and I'll take a picture. They write pretty funny stuff and you can help them sharpen their writing skills. I wouldn't recommend letting them do this to the bullies or baseball players though.

[poet13]

Class captain fell asleep at the beginning of class. So we snuck out and played soccer. We were back in time for bell, all sweaty and dirty.

[yingwenlaoshi]

[dean_burrito]

[madoka]

[yingwenlaoshi]

[yingwenlaoshi]

[curlygirl]

Pranks? Too many to remember.

#1 I doctored a picture of a gorilla's face with a speech bubble that said "I'm pretty" in Korean. I then stuck it to 5 k-teachers' hand mirrors.

#2 When my favorite k-teacher was away from her desk I went into her computer's settings and switched the left and right mouse functions around. She was going barmy trying to figure out why the menus kept popping up so I put her out of her misery after less than a minute. Well...actually I was trying so hard to hold my laughter in that she figured out I'd done something - she just didn't know what.

#3 Same k-teacher; most of your fellow teachers will have an extra pair of shoes under their desk - mine did. I stuffed the toes with balled up paper then sat back and watched the fun when she tried to put them on.

#4 I gave the same k-teacher my book "Making out in Korean" then filmed her reading it and posted it on my Facebook page.

I wonder why that school decided only at the very last minute to re-hire me?

Post Script: I went to this same k-teacher's wedding less than a month ago so obviously no hard feelings there^-^

[eunjeong]

some of these are pretty funny~ haha

[crusher_of_heads]

[dean_burrito]

I mean really, what's with all the boneheads today? Or maybe I'm just not ignoring them as I normally do.
I think most people reading this can foresee for themselves that this has limits. But for you knuckleheads let me elaborate on what most people with a brain can infer for themselves.
Do not let the children write hateful things and do not pick on kids with learning disabilities or the ones that have to work late and are tired. Most kids are grouped with their friends in public school so it's like they are doing this to someone that will take it wrong. Use your head on what is allowwed in your class. Also make them write in English and help them correct their mistakes. It''s a fun way to do some writing. Make the class fun. The kid will wake up. He'll want his turn to write something on note too. Have they put them on my back? Sure. It's fun. But again some of you may not be intelligent enough to oversee anything that isn't done directly from a course book.
Enough about that here's a variation I would do at the Hagwon.
As a class we would write a letter to the class next door. There was a gap in the wall near the window so we could pass notes back and forth.

So one day we write a life story of the other foreign teacher who was teaching in the room at the time. The other teacher was a guy. So the kids got pretty creative. Listed his hobbies as collecting barbie dolls and begging. His class soon sent back a note equally as funny about me.

[moosehead]

[Leslie Cheswyck]

Scotch tape the receiver on the office phone(s). When they pick it up to answer, the damned thing just keeps on ringing.

[Horangi Munshin]

You could watch "The Office" and get some ideas from that. Vibrator on the boss's desk might not go down well though.