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warmachinenkorea · Joined: 12 Oct 2008

Thanks for the last post. I am trying to deliver quality work. I understand doing the plans. But when you are in class looking to ask your teacher to translate and can't find them and walk to the back of the room and they are in the Asain squat texting what am I to do?

The problem I have with standing up to them Laughing

. When I try to explain something to my teachers I literally stay seated. I'm 6'4 285 lbs. I try not to literally stand unless I have to. Kids and teachers are physically afraid of me. Embarassed

I'm no Picasso · Joined: 28 Oct 2008

warmachinenkorea · Joined: 12 Oct 2008

Thanks for the response. I have a very difficult time just playin' the servant. I really wanna teach but I feel I'm painted into a corner and then asked to walk out of the room. Also, my wife had horrible first semester here but now here teachers are awsome so I have another person to think about.

warmachinenkorea · Joined: 12 Oct 2008

Thanks for the response. I have a very difficult time just playin' the servant. I really wanna teach but I feel I'm painted into a corner and then asked to walk out of the room. Also, my wife had horrible first semester here but now here teachers are awsome so I have another person to think about.

Straphanger · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Location: Chilgok, Korea

warmachinenkorea · Joined: 12 Oct 2008

I'll keep crying as much as I want and then do it more if you don't wanna read it don't.

Again, it's not the work. It's all the other stuff.

I'm no Picasso · Joined: 28 Oct 2008

Straphanger · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Location: Chilgok, Korea

warmachinenkorea · Joined: 12 Oct 2008

Nice to see your getting the point.

Again it's not about the paper work!

I have worked in factory and been a janitor and I had to do no paper work with either job.

Picaso, I understand. I went for a grop of teachers who didn't give a flip to ones that are making my job difficult. My wife had the opposite happen. She had demons and now she loves her teachers her school gave her her own classroom and they are very supportive. I went from teachers not caring to teachers that want to make things difficult for me and them. My main KT just got transfered from the Physical Ed. MS and got thrown into a academic HS and she has never had a NET before.

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

I've done this for a long time here's my advice.

The Lesson plans- It's just show, they don't care what's written. Ask your co-teacher for a sample of what they do, and just change words around and use the same format. Korean teachers tend to do a grid format. With teacher speaking time on one side and students speaking time on the other. Then break it into Warm up Activities, Main activity and Conclusion,
You can also change the lesson plan when you teach. They will never say anything if you don't fellow your initual lesson plan. So try to write what you think they want to hear.

The Book: Most Public school textbooks are terrible. The one I use contains sentences no one would ever use like" How kind you are" Try to incorporate the Text book into every lesson. Just do listen and repeat. Then ditch the book and do something more interesting and useful.

warmachinenkorea · Joined: 12 Oct 2008

Thanks Fish Head.

I suggested this in the beginning of the semester and I got blank stares or they said. I think you should use the book and the students should repeat. This is what's so frustrating about this whole bit.

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

Robot_Teacher · Joined: 18 Feb 2009 Location: Robotting Around the World

Did you read your contract? If EPIK, it might state you have 1 week of paid family leave for a situation involving death and dying as with your grandma. I'd bring a copy of the death certificate back to Korea if I have to go an emergency family leave trip.

I find in my school too, they don't have time to have discussions on lessons or anything else. I was even scheduled for a teacher/staff class, but no one wants to participate. I've offered several times and took the intiative to communicate with teachers and office staff, but they're not interested so it hasn't materialized. I find I too have just silent work relationships that involve little more communication than being told about last minute changes that pertain to me. I'm not told about anything else. The most talking with Korean teachers actually happens during classes. It's weird.

the oak llama · Joined: 05 Dec 2008

my condolences (sp?).

warmachinenkorea · Joined: 12 Oct 2008

Yea the contract says we have leave. But I left before she died. I was ready to take the unpaid leave but when my wife asked her teachers they called the POE and the POE said we could take our vacation. We were given permission by the POE.

The problem I am having now is we had a small talk and before I can get the words "I need to discuss my lesson with all the teachers," She says it's not possible. She let the cat out of he bag and told me that she had called someone and talked to them about co-teaching and now things I told her 3 months ago are suddenly relevant.

I was ok until we weere finishing our talk and it seemed as if we were understanding each other. I said, "I have been asking for this for a while now." She says, "Really? Really? It's not what I hear." I respond with, "Who have you been talking to?" She says, "I can't remember." laughs and won't talk ot me anymore. I also found that when I took a sick day because I couldn't talk she called my wife's school and told her teacher's that I refused to do lesson plans and co-operate.