Korean Job Discussion Forums

[ajuma]

And you're a guy, right schwa?

[schwa]

[wylde]

[ajuma]

Yes, darling. I spend more time out of class with my students than any other teacher here (drinking, lunch, even parties in my apartment!). But even if I drink with my students the night before class, they know that IN class, I'm the teacher. They don't have problems with that. It's the "mom look" that does it for me.

I have over 150 numbers in my phone...80% of them are students/former students!

It MAY be a maturity thing....

[crazylemongirl]

Ajuma the worst physical abuse I've seen of my students have been at the hands of the women teachers, which is not surprising considering that 90% of the teachers at my school are women. A kid getting hit around the head with a wooden stick is not ok. Twisting cheeks for 5 minutes is not cool either.

If you used the some of those same methods against non students then it's called abuse and I don't think that it such behavior should be reclassified as discpline merely because it's in a classroom.

Again I reiterate I don't let kids get away with bad behavior, and their are limits that I enforce in my classroom clearly. If you get kicked out of class your going to be writing lines, and most of the kids would rather swallow razor blades then have to give up their lunch time or after school time on the floor writing 'I will not disrupt my english class' 50 times.

[wylde]

this is the difference..

i do not condem any teaching method..


mine is to have them relax and treat me my like a person that doesn't speak korean and the only way they can communicate with me is through english.

generally, this happens outside of class.. funny thing that


i love my students

[ajuma]

crazylemongirl, I can understand the difference between keeping your distance from middle/high school students and uni students. Freshman have a problem with boundries (especially those who've never had a foreign teacher before), but (and I think it comes with maturity) this is also a part of the learning process. I've made some GREAT friends among my junior and senior students (and a stray freshman or sophomore!). My life in Korea would be poorer without them.

[ajuma]

Wylde, why can't you foster the same style you have OUT of the classroom IN the classroom? Do you resort to hitting/humiliating your students OUTSIDE of the classroom?

[wylde]

they thinking i am playing with them.. you can't have your cake and eat it too

[ajuma]

So...your classroom style is "authoritarian" and your out of classroom style is "pal"?

[wylde]

they ARE my friends.. i love them to death.. when it is that god forsaken time to get them into class and somebody doesn't respect the situation.. i make them

[ajuma]

Ok...I'm going to go at this from a different perspective.

How many times a week do you have to "make" them?

[Gord]

[ajuma]

Thanks Gord!

[wylde]

800 students... maybe 20 times a week

i respected the teachers that were hard on me.. the teachers that weren't, i walked all over.. in korea students play the game the same way the only difference it that it is worse here.

Thanks Gord!