Korean Job Discussion Forums

[whiteshoes]

Well, instead of sitting around playing on facebook all day, I get to spend my last two weeks preparing "materials" for the teacher who will come and replace me. Writing sample dialogs, sample essays and reading for my co-teacher's after school class (which I don't participate in,nor receive any money).

If you're mad because you just have to sit there, I'll trade you.

[Lastrova]

What about all your accumulated lesson plans from the past year? Isn't that good enough? Essays? Just pull them down from the net.

I've given my coteacher so many freebies, it would be such an odd request to expect me to prepare for the next teacher. However, I understand that some coteachers feel compelled to keep the NESTs busy. And yes, I do hate deskwarming, but ALL the teachers at my school have to do it too, so it's nothing special for me. Silly and counterproductive rule reminding us that we are really not professionals.

[nukeday]

lol....if i were set to make materials for the incoming teacher, i can bet they'd be of real high quality.

[allan of asia]

when I am moving on from my current school - they will get what I used during my time here in a folder/USB and a note on how things in the school work that I had to figure out for myself being the first fireigner ever but I am NOT making lessons for them, thats what they will be getting their salary for! Maybe harsh but why should i?

[Bill2K]

Nothing beats desk warming. I get paid for coming to "work", take out my Kindle, read for a few hours, lurk on forums, watch youtube and study. Every now and then they'll ask me to make some kind of lesson or idea for a class, but nothing that's going to take longer then 30~60 minutes to finish.

I'm going to enjoy my desk warming for the next six months. I'll never have this much free time in the states.

[PatrickBateman]

Consider yourself lucky, I have to make phone calls to over 50+ students.

UNPAID.

[jrwhite82]

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

SNIP

Edit about a month's worth of your old lessons to make them fresh and leave that for the new teacher. It should take you a few hours at most.

Watch tv, play online, and read for the rest of deskwarming.

[whiteshoes]

[sadguy]

[Vagabundo]

[sadguy]

yeah seriously.... if a co teacher was telling me i was wasting time, i would probably just laugh it off and continue what i was doing. and if they ever got serious about it, i would say that my work is already finished.

but yeah, like vagabundo, my co teachers are either looking at online clothing shops or celebrity gossip sites.

some teachers even just straight up sleep at their desk with their donut pillows. or some even go to the nurses office, like i do, to take a nap.

at my old school there was a nap room where teachers would just pass out in.

[whiteshoes]

[conrad2]

Ask your co-teacher if he pays your salary and then go back to watching football.

[naturegirl321]

Really? What kind of fantastic material did the teacher that you replaced give yoU?