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Len8
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
Location: Kyungju
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| You are not in Public schools to help them make money for whatever reason. That's an issue that needs to be resolved contractually. If students are paying for extra classes then you should be payed accordingly. |
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steroidmaximus
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: GangWon-Do
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| you are paid extra for the extra classes, usually around 25000 per 45 minutes |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| steroidmaximus wrote: |
| you are paid extra for the extra classes, usually around 25000 per 45 minutes |
that woule be true.
As for approaches the way I go about teaching small classes is way different from my bigger ones.
However the bulk of my lessons have to follow a set routine. first up I see classes of 40+ middle school boys once a week (or once every second week in the case of the third years). I get to teach from the text book once every three weeks. The other two lessons I usually pick some parts of the dialogue (which is what i teach from the text book) and go over it in class. I generally steer away from group activities in large classes because I've found that it largely gives 90% of the boys an excuse to slack off. |
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steroidmaximus
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: GangWon-Do
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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you should have done what I did: told them what you're going to teach. I said: "I'm doing an advanced reading class for my extracurricular. All students who want to participate have to take an interview. Only 20 students will be accepted." Then I accepted them all.
They tried to hoist some crap conversation class on me, and I pointed out that it would be a waste of my expertise to teach low level students, something that would be more effectively taught by a Korean teacher. Best to give me the more advanced students and let me work em. They acquiesed. I'm going to make photocopies of a couple of Oxford Bookworms titles and run them through. Easy 100000 grand a week. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Mashimaro wrote: |
| This is the kind of crap which makes me reluctant to go back to teaching in korea. You can be doing a great job and their will always be things come up that they complain about. it is a freaking joke, |
maybe you're the problem ever thought about that? |
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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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| Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:55 am Post subject: |
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My two cents - just tell your principal that he is extremely well endowed (i.e. nod profusely and thank him kindly for his feedback and keen insight into your teaching and act happy and enthused by his comments) & then do absolutely nothing different.
I swear, with authoritarian males, this works a treat. Play him. Make him feel that his masculinity is engorged beyond unfathomable proportions and he'll be happy. he can walk down the corridors swinging his "masculinity" and you can roll your eyes beyond his back & stick your fingers down your throat as much as you like, but I reckon he'll be off your case!
I learned this lesson a while ago. Stroke the ego. Feed his perceived authority. Do whatever the freak you want  |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:40 pm Post subject: Re: I thought that once I left a hogwon I would escape this |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
So today I get dragged from one of my classes because the principal wants to see me.
Your students are not excited about learning english. Only 10 students signed up for extra after school classes. You need to change your teaching methods.
Last year he was complaining that my students in my summer camp looked too relaxed and they needed to study harder  |
There isn't a sane, well run working environment any place in the world. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:13 am Post subject: |
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so I find out why I didn't get many students. My school is charging the kids 40k a session whereas the other public schools in the area are charging theirs 25.
All my fault? When the school is charging 1 and half times the market rate. I don't think so. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:23 am Post subject: |
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
| Mashimaro wrote: |
| This is the kind of crap which makes me reluctant to go back to teaching in korea. You can be doing a great job and their will always be things come up that they complain about. it is a freaking joke, |
maybe you're the problem ever thought about that? |
If you've been around long enough to be a legend on this board and haven't seen that excellent teachers get shat on and fired for no reason, you must be spending an awful lot of time outside the classroom. |
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paperbag princess
Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Location: veggie hell
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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| lemongirl: 40 per session as in each class or per month? |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| paperbag princess wrote: |
| lemongirl: 40 per session as in each class or per month? |
for 20 "teaching hours" (which adds 15 minutes prep into them). But a lot of my students come from broken homes so this really expensive for them. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
so I find out why I didn't get many students. My school is charging the kids 40k a session whereas the other public schools in the area are charging theirs 25.
All my fault? When the school is charging 1 and half times the market rate. I don't think so. |
Wow, my school is like 30,000 or 40,000 a month for extra classes... 2 times a week for 1 to 1 1/2 hrs. So I'm told. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Derrek wrote: |
Wow, my school is like 30,000 or 40,000 a month for extra classes... 2 times a week for 1 to 1 1/2 hrs. So I'm told. |
Different clients though. You're at a private school in bundang. I'm a a public school in a semi farming community with a lot of broken homes.. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
Different clients though. You're at a private school in bundang. I'm a a public school in a semi farming community with a lot of broken homes.. |
Seems like Kansas. |
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