Korean Job Discussion Forums

[thomas pars]

I don't know if your school does this, but every semester the
breakdown is like this:

Some official from GEPIK comes in to "check" the work you've been doing.
All the handouts/games/writing assignments were collected by my
co-teacher for these officials to check out. Funny thing, when I was given it back today it was about 65% lighter. Games, handouts, I basically invented
are missing. I asked a friend about it and he says the inspections are just a
cover for GEPIK to come in a steal your lesson plans.

Is this madness possibly true?

[Ramen]

Who knows and who cares?

Everthing you created while employed by them are their property.

[ThingsComeAround]

I've heard a rumor that your co-teacher gets a little bonus on the lesson plans that you create.

Next time make it bare bones, put the rules in shorthand so no one knows how to use 'em.

Not like they will be used again, anyway. They will find a nice home in a dark filing cabinet in the basement of your local GPOE

[cincynate]

Those lesson plans are the property of Gepik or Epik or Smoe or whatever. They paid you to make them. How is it madness, and why wouldn't you want to give em to them anyway. Isn't it good to know that your hard work is paying of to benefit some child's education?

[drama_addict]

[AsiaESLbound]

[Senior]

You are payed to create lesson plans. You don't own the material that you create. You are free to use it in other contexts, but it is not your intellectual property or anything.

You shouldn't give them the master copy of your material, if you plan on using it again.

[kiwipenny]

They may also distribute those plans to others who are teaching for the first time.. they may use them as examples in training sessions... that can only be helpful to anyone who sees them ^^

Wouldn't be upset about it and just do what some of the others said above.. make sure you have copies of everything and that way you have your work for future classes and GEPIK has a copy too~~

It doesn't happen at every school as my co-teachers very rarely even bother to make plans~ we just discuss what we are doing and do it... I keep my own records for use in any future job on my own USB~

[shcforward]

You are overestimating the bureaucracy. They have mountains of lesson plans sitting around just for the sake of them sitting around. Your co-workers will steal your ideas and lesson plans, but people in district offices probably only want them just to fill up filing cabinets.

[jonpurdy]

Keep in mind that in Canada, lesson plans you create are yours to keep. They are your intellectual property and you can do as you see fit with them including selling them.

I'm not sure how different it is here but I'd presume the lesson plans are your intellectual property but are required to give them to the MOE for evaluation purposes.

Any additional insight into this?

[NYC_Gal]

Someone recommended making your powerpoint material "read only" with a watermark with "Property of ___" in the background.

Add "Property of ___" to all of your papers

[oldfatfarang]

I once had a co-teacher (HOD English Dept.) copy all my lesson plans from my computer. She said it was to prove that were were teaching properly to the POE. Yeah, right. My other Korean co-teachers warned me that this lady was very, very, very ambitious, and that I shouldn't cross her in any way (or she would roll me). Well she did get me canned eventually (at the end of my contract).

All that aside, I believe that she promoted these lesson plans as her own work (and that's why I only provide minimal lesson plans now).

My new lesson plans just show headings for teaching instructions, i.e., Introduction; Dialog; Model/drill/; Instructions; Task 1, Task 2 etc; Feedback, Conclusion etc. They won't be getting any of my power points, either.

[vaticanhotline]

[winterfall]

I watermark all lesson plans. Not cause of POE but, more cause of a woefully incompetent co-teacher that took everything I made and passed it off as his. Cause of that it took me more than 6 months to get my school to look at him more "Closely".

For worksheets its a bit more tricky. You can't exactly watermark them, sometimes I put copyrights on em, sometimes I don't. My kids are always looking for reasons to procrastinate, sticking a copyright on it didn't help.

Then again this co-teacher is always complaining in class about my lessons. But, every time I turn around. He's pilfering worksheets.

[thomas pars]