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[Fishead soup]

(He She) is constantly treating you like a newbie and keeps telling you how shy Korean students are.

(He she) tells you that the boy who said" Fvck you"! doesn't really know what it means.

(He She) actually thinks that people in the West actually use the pigeon English that appears in the textbook.

( He She) thinks that all noisy classes are bad even when they are noisy in English.

(He She)shows a really dry section of the textbook to you, and wants you to make it into a game, and the class starts in five minutes.

Waits until the farewell party to give you some genuinly good advice.

[egrog1717]

Your co-teacher won't let you get a word in, so you're basically getting paid to play with a ball of stickey-tac for 40 minutes while she mispronounces every third sentence...

(Not that I'm complaining... I love my ball of stickey-tac, lol)

[Aelric]

...When she translates instructions into Korean and the students understand less than they did when you used English.

[ddeubel]

when he starts a useless thread like this one on a public messageboard.....


DD
http://eflclassroom.com

[curlygirl]

When your students tell you that your co-teacher has 2 nick names: mouse and ant.

Incidentally his contract did not get renewed after his first year. He thinks it's because "The principal doesn't like me and I don't know why."

Ummm...actually it's because you are U-S-E-L-E-S-S!

[oldfatfarang]

[nomad-ish]

when your co-teacher has seen the same lesson 3 times and they still don't know what's going on.

[ekul]

When the only reason they have the job is because they speak English.... Oh snap that's us.

[Xuanzang]

when a 15 year veteran and graduate of the British Council teacher's training program still says changee and Englishee.

[nomad-ish]

[antoniothegreat]

sorry to break topic, but when i read these i realize how lucky i am that my cotachers are competent and respectful...

now back to the funny stuff...

when they dont show up to class and when you ask why they say "because the other foreigner doesnt like it when i come."

which my response was "is it my class or his class?"

[yingwenlaoshi]

I like this thread because it shows how useless Korean english teachers really are. Don't tell or even hint at this to them, because they will be discouraged and not be sparklers; korea is sparkling.

[some waygug-in]

When they base their success on their co-workers attitudes and abilities and then come on to Dave's an whine about how they can't do their job because their co-teacher sucks. ......Oh wait, that sounds a lot like me.

A good co-teacher can make a world of difference in the classroom, but at the same time you have to do the best you can with what you've got.

Not always easy, I know, but complaining won't help much. You have to be proactive and find ways to make things work better with whomever you are stuck with.

[Rory_Calhoun27]

you arrive at the airport with no one to pick you up, because the coteacher thinks you're coming the next day?

she drags her feet getting the ARC card processed, and when she does she puts down the wrong dates and addresses on your card, so the got thinks you live in the wrong city?

she slaps you on a Friday, after one of your many arguments on a Thursday over a seemingly minor issue?

she's upset because you call yourself "DR McDREAMY" after seeing her download episodes of "Greys Anatomy" onto her portable harddrive, on the school system's network?




I really do hate my old coteacher..... if only some evil revenge scheme comes to me, so she REALLY loses some face...