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some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

I still don't see what advantage there would be to having this on a resume.

So future bosses can say,

"Hey, you made this guy a free textbook, you can make us one too".

*_*

Wow, that's a real benefit.

And I repeat, I'd be very wary of any manager/school that is trying this.

If they are too cheap to buy textbooks it is a good indication of bad management and possible money problems in the future.

PatrickGHBusan · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 6:02 am Post subject:

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WadRUG'naDoo · Joined: 15 Jun 2010 Location: Shanghai

WadRUG'naDoo · Joined: 15 Jun 2010 Location: Shanghai

Kudos to you, OP. Your co-workers should be ashamed. Give them an inch, they take you a mile. If one person gives in, more people will and pretty soon you'll have other hagwons asking the same.

Don't listen to people who are seeing the brighter side of this. They're just dropping a stinking pile of dog crap and catching people getting a whiff of it.

If you've got your own projects, I say "Go for it!" No harm in that. Yes, you can better yourself professionally. If you're just starting out teaching (or not), it starts with lesson plans. Some people start out slower than others and vice versa.

You're paid to teach. That's it. They want more out of you, they should've let you known that before you signed the contract and paid you accordingly. Even with a team of writers, it would be a full-time job added onto your already full-time job.

Don't let them push you around.

shifty · Joined: 21 Jun 2004

southernman · Joined: 15 Jan 2010 Location: On the mainland again

Theres nothing worse when your co-workers grumble and winge about things, you take a stand for what everyone is agreeing with. Then when the crunch comes everyone backs down at the meeting.

I hope you have told your gutless co-workers what you think of them. Although it will not change the situation in any way it will be good for your sanity.

If you are going to have to make a 'Textbook' I suggest using the KISS protocol in the following way.

I would ask other teachers that you know maybe PS ones if they have access to any Holiday programms on CD. I pirated an old Seoul PS winter camp CD I managed to acquire, sorry I only had short time access to the CD and I didn't keep a copy. I've used it at 3 different PS's now and it actually took only a few hours to adjust and modify. It was long enough, maybe 40 lessons.

The effort needed to plan, format, and design a real Textbook would be far to time consumimg and it would become Avalon's property anyway, not yours. So you, in all probability, wouldn't even be acknowledged as an author.

I'd also offer to take the head foreign teacher out for some drinks, tell him you want to clear the air. Get him drinking and talking and find out what his agenda is. If it's as transparent as it appears also tell him what a douche bag he is. Then the next time at work claim the memory loss card and ask him what happened because you can't remember a thing