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Wangddaddy
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 Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 7:33 pm Post subject: Public high school vs. public middle school |
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| I've recently been offered a position at a public high school. I've never taught at one before, but I've taught at a couple of public middle schools. How is teaching at a high school different from teaching at a middle school? |
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waynehead
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Location: Jongno
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| If you're at an academic school: better students (probably), more relate-able students (for me anyway), more test days and better vacation schedules (probably). |
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different
Joined: 22 May 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| The classes will be 50 minutes rather than 45. But the students could be more cooperative and well behaved. Give it a shot. |
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Vagabundo
Joined: 26 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 6:38 am Post subject: Re: Public high school vs. public middle school |
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| Wangddaddy wrote: |
| I've recently been offered a position at a public high school. I've never taught at one before, but I've taught at a couple of public middle schools. How is teaching at a high school different from teaching at a middle school? |
the single biggest difference is that at middle school I assume you are following the national textbook curriculum and supplementing it with your own stuff to drive the curriculum home.
in a HS, you will most likely not have any curriculum and be asked to make your own lessons. You can try adapting them to the HS textbooks but unless you are at a very high academic school that may be a hopeless task.
your 1st graders (technically sophomores for us) will pretty much strike you as middle schoolers, still. (your oldest middle schoolers obviously)
The physical (and often psychological) changes typically occur in their 2nd HS year (our junior year). It's only then that you'll realize that you're at least beginning to deal with, at some level, with "young adults" rather than children, though Koreans generally still remain several years behind their American counterparts in this respect.
and yes, it's possible you will have more free time/test days/holiday time. |
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