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Olivencia
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 Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:01 pm Post subject: 6 hours a day teaching is excessive...I wouldn't do it |
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Too much. 30 hours of teaching a week? Get real. Plus you have prep time and loads of other stupidity to contend with. It's difficult enough being in a foreign country. You go home and a dark cold room with no food welcomes you except for those dirty dishes and nasty old underwear you left on the floor. The Koreans go home to a warm and welcoming home in that the wife/nanny has the table prepared and the place is clean.
6 hour days? I'd tell em to shove it. |
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grandpa
Joined: 19 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject: Re: 6 hours a day teaching is excessive...I wouldn't do it |
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| If those 30 hours are bringing you lots of money, then you can pay for a maid who will clean and cook for you. |
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jmuns
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
Location: earth
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| Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:16 pm Post subject: Re: 6 hours a day teaching is excessive...I wouldn't do it |
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| Olivencia wrote: |
Too much. 30 hours of teaching a week? Get real. Plus you have prep time and loads of other stupidity to contend with. It's difficult enough being in a foreign country. You go home and a dark cold room with no food welcomes you except for those dirty dishes and nasty old underwear you left on the floor. The Koreans go home to a warm and welcoming home in that the wife/nanny has the table prepared and the place is clean.
6 hour days? I'd tell em to shove it. |
you live like a slob |
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Olivencia
Joined: 08 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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Generally speaking....
That would help some but its different than an actual wife in terms of love and trust. She wouldn't welcome you like a wife does. Unlike with my wife I would always be careful with what I left around the house (money, credfit cards, etc). There's no love with a nanny...it's simply her doing her job.
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I live like a slob? What do you think I got married for?  |
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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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I don't care who you are...teaching 30 hours a week, after week, after week, is NOT a good teacher. You are only fooling yourself if you think you are. Sure, for the first month it's OK, and then you go downhill. Besides...why would one do it anyway? Desperate? Can't land a job back home? 6 classes a day? Prep time? Etc...
Nope...can't be done consistently and maintain a good quality level of teaching. Besides, what did you go to college for�and I know you were not taught to teach 6 classes a day, day in and day out! |
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Olivencia
Joined: 08 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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So true!
It's too much. First of all it is only a one year contract so they use you up as much as possible. Don't like it? Hey that's ok there will be someone else replacing you next year...just get through it. Throw in the fact that they (bosses) don't really care about quality education and there ya go!
Now of course I'm speaking in generalities..not al bosses are like that. My boss so far has been more than cool. |
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runthegauntlet
Joined: 02 Dec 2007
Location: the southlands.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:21 am Post subject: |
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| hellofaniceguy wrote: |
I don't care who you are...teaching 30 hours a week, after week, after week, is NOT a good teacher. You are only fooling yourself if you think you are. Sure, for the first month it's OK, and then you go downhill. Besides...why would one do it anyway? Desperate? Can't land a job back home? 6 classes a day? Prep time? Etc...
Nope...can't be done consistently and maintain a good quality level of teaching. Besides, what did you go to college for�and I know you were not taught to teach 6 classes a day, day in and day out! |
I think you're confusing being a 'teacher' with working in a hagwon. For some (many?), those are two different jobs. |
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runthegauntlet
Joined: 02 Dec 2007
Location: the southlands.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:23 am Post subject: Re: 6 hours a day teaching is excessive...I wouldn't do it |
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| Olivencia wrote: |
Too much. 30 hours of teaching a week? Get real. Plus you have prep time and loads of other stupidity to contend with. It's difficult enough being in a foreign country. You go home and a dark cold room with no food welcomes you except for those dirty dishes and nasty old underwear you left on the floor. The Koreans go home to a warm and welcoming home in that the wife/nanny has the table prepared and the place is clean.
6 hour days? I'd tell em to shove it. |
That's super. But frankly, who cares what you'd do? Everyone has their own agendas and circumstances. You throwing yours out there like it's the end-all, be-all way of doing things is a bit stupid.
And not everyone goes home to what you go home to. But try not to take out your frustrations too much, eh?  |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:39 am Post subject: Re: 6 hours a day teaching is excessive...I wouldn't do it |
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| Olivencia wrote: |
Too much. 30 hours of teaching a week? Get real. Plus you have prep time and loads of other stupidity to contend with. It's difficult enough being in a foreign country. You go home and a dark cold room with no food welcomes you except for those dirty dishes and nasty old underwear you left on the floor. The Koreans go home to a warm and welcoming home in that the wife/nanny has the table prepared and the place is clean.
6 hour days? I'd tell em to shove it. |
I agree.
That is why I put 25/h per week on my contract.
I noticed myself that quality goes down after the 25 hour per week. |
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Olivencia
Joined: 08 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:45 am Post subject: |
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Not frustrated at all. I teach 4 hour days.
What I say is not the end-all be-all...if you want to be stupid enough to disagree with me then .......that's your choice |
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runthegauntlet
Joined: 02 Dec 2007
Location: the southlands.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| Olivencia wrote: |
Not frustrated at all. I teach 4 hour days.
What I say is not the end-all be-all...if you want to be stupid enough to disagree with me then .......that's your choice |
Congratulations, so do I. So what? I'm just commenting on my observation of you coming off as a *beep*. Got it? |
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Old Gil
Joined: 26 Sep 2009
Location: Got out! olleh!
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:14 am Post subject: |
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| Olivencia is full of fail. Please how about some of your thoughts on homosexuality again? You've always got great things to say. |
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