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tideout
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 Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:51 am Post subject: Who has quit their PS job before the end of the contract? |
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warmachinenkorea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Make a time table and have the teachers clarify where you're teaching and who you're teaching. If you go to the wrong room then just say sorry and ask where you're supposed to go. Sit down with the two teachers, and get clear on who leads and what their expectations of you are. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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If you care about consequences than you must be interested in staying in Korea. It's really not worth leaving the job over something so minor (and common) unless you're planning to try a different type of job. This sounds like your standard PS job to me.
I quit my PS job early because I didn't like it. As far as I know there were no consequences. |
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tideout
Joined: 12 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 12:12 am Post subject: |
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[quote="Draz"
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tideout
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 12:18 am Post subject: |
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[quote="warmachinenkorea"]
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koreatimes
Joined: 07 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:37 am Post subject: |
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| it's one of those deals when you look at it it makes your head spin if you know what I mean. |
No, I don't know what you mean. What do you mean?
You are being vague and I can't quite see a specific problem. I am confused about some things in your original post as well.
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| two teachers who swap similarly numbered rooms |
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| it�s not clear who�s leading the class or that even if one of us plans it may not mean you�re leading it |
What on earth do those two things mean? When I read the first I thought it meant you might get Grade 1 (room 1), another teacher Grade 1 (room 2), you Grade 2 (room 3), another teacher Grade 3 (room 4), etc.... If you are swapping then maybe the next day you would teach in rooms 2 and 4. Like that. That's how I read it.
But then you said you don't know who's leading the class. There are 2 teachers in a class? How can there be swapping if the teachers are both in the classroom?
What exactly is the problem? Can you spell it out? |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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I'm somewhat taken aback as well.
You are considering quitting because you don't know which room to go to?
Good thing you didn't take up nursing. Or bartending. Or waiting tables. |
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Kaypea
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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The thing is, if they're disorganized but nice, then they'll be sympathetic to your being confused. They won't get mad if you go to the wrong room or something. Just make sure you're prepared for all the classes you have that week, and go where someone tells you to go. Also, you can sit down with these nice people and tell them that you'd feel better if you understood the timetable. You should have a waygook wrangler coteacher who can do you up a quick timetable which lists only the places you specifically need to be.
Good luck! |
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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:46 pm Post subject: Re: Who has quit their PS job before the end of the contract |
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So, you don't like that things are not organized? Welcome to Korea.  (or various other countries in the EFL world.)
Nothing you've mentioned sounds abnormal. Irritating and frustrating maybe. But nothing to break contract over. warmachine has a good idea. I'd start with that.
I think there's more to gain from completing contracts.
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Complicating matters is the low English levels of my co-workers and with it of course the accompanying lack of being able to smooth things over, have a laugh at some things etc�One of the two is slipping into b**** mode at this point which makes things a bit testier to say the least.
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I'd be careful about this. There's two sides to (mis)communication. |
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tideout
Joined: 12 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:48 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the feedback and ideas.
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jeremysums
Joined: 08 Apr 2011
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 10:51 am Post subject: Re: Who has quit their PS job before the end of the contract |
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There's a lot of runner threads, so im sure a lot of people left before their contract ended.
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Just curious who here may have left their public school position early and why? What were the cause(s) and did you try to work out a resolution?
What consequences, if any, were there for leaving early?
My dilemma, strange as it may sound, is following the weekly schedule. The schedule crosses over 4 grade levels, two teachers who swap similarly numbered rooms - then mix in grade levels, lesson plans, periods, regular room numbers etc.. It doesn�t help that it�s not clear who�s leading the class or that even if one of us plans it may not mean you�re leading it.
Honestly, memorizing an ongoing, meaningless binary code would be easier.
Complicating matters is the low English levels of my co-workers and with it of course the accompanying lack of being able to smooth things over, have a laugh at some things etc�One of the two is slipping into b**** mode at this point which makes things a bit testier to say the least.
My predecessor finished her contract last year but left under rather vague sounding circumstances � obvious they are avoiding her as a subject. Frankly, it doesn�t look good some days for the future there. I guess the next step would be to have a conversation with the head teacher next.
Thanks for any thoughts on this. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
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Just curious, you're saying you quit just because you didn't like it - no issues then that made you leave? |
My main coteacher was a hag, but the main problem was that I expected to be an assistant teacher and then I got there and they were like, "nope, you're doing it all alone! And you can't use the book. Ummm no I don't have any ideas, this is YOUR job." Nuts to that!
That's not really an issue though, I don't think. It's not like they weren't paying me... though they did try to get me to sign a new contract after a month for less money than the one I was hired with. Ha, I forgot about that. I don't really think about the details any more I just remember it as a constant parade of misery and nonsense. I'm grateful though, because if it had been more tolerable I never would have pushed myself to get a better job. |
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vchampea
Joined: 02 Sep 2011
Location: USA
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Draz wrote: |
My main coteacher was a hag, but the main problem was that I expected to be an assistant teacher and then I got there and they were like, "nope, you're doing it all alone! And you can't use the book. Ummm no I don't have any ideas, this is YOUR job." Nuts to that!
That's not really an issue though, I don't think. It's not like they weren't paying me... though they did try to get me to sign a new contract after a month for less money than the one I was hired with. Ha, I forgot about that. I don't really think about the details any more I just remember it as a constant parade of misery and nonsense. I'm grateful though, because if it had been more tolerable I never would have pushed myself to get a better job. |
I had a similar experience in Thailand. I left the school after 2 months (after all the other foreign teachers left too). I'm trying to figure out what to put on my resume and what to say in interviews. If I leave out that teaching job, I don't have any other formal teaching experience; just a bunch of volunteer work teaching English. Did you have other teaching experience besides that job at the public school? If not, how did you handle job hunting after leaving the school early? Do you just not mention it at all? Is it even on your resume? |
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pkang0202
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| My new job started 9 days before my old PS job ended. It was either take the job in Seoul, terminating my contract 9 days before it ended, or refuse the new job, get my severance, but waiting 6 months before another PS position opened in Seoul. |
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tideout
Joined: 12 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 4:37 am Post subject: |
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[quote="Draz"]
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Just curious, you're saying you quit just because you didn't like it - no issues then that made you leave? |
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