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R. S. Refugee
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Shangra La, ROK
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 Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 4:13 pm Post subject: How much energy is required to teach kindie? |
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Seems like the bobster might have some insight into that question.
Being a 50-something, I'm asking myself, "Will I survive" and repeating clichces like "If it doesn't kill you, it will make you stronger."
My guess is that I will quickly lose all excess poundage and get in good shape. In terms of physical activity, I can certainly walk for miles and miles. And I've done fairly aeorobic folk dancing usually two or three nights a week most of my adult life.
So, what's in store for me in terms of physical survival?
I won't be teaching 100% kindie. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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To teach kindie well takes far more energy than I have. I'm down to one kindie class now and I'm sure the hogwan's much better off for it.
As for getting excercise - no problem when you're teaching kindergarten. Shoulder press them, arm curl them, do jumping jacks with them... by the time they're ready to stop there's hardly any need for the gym. |
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R. S. Refugee
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Shangra La, ROK
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
I'm down to one kindie class now and I'm sure the hogwan's much better off for it.
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So, how long is a kindie class? |
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casey's moon
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| I teach 9 25-minute kindergarten classes (actually a few of them are 30 minutes) every day, back to back except for one 25-minute lunch break. I'm surprised how well I do with this, but sometimes it is INCREDIBLY exhausting --- When I first started the new term, I actually fell asleep between two of my classes (the second class was late arriving), while I was sitting in a very tiny, hard chair. But now that I've adjusted, I find that my classes often energize me, and make me more productive in my hobbies and housework. |
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Ody
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: over here
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:29 pm Post subject: Re: How much energy is required to teach kindie? |
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| R. S. Refugee wrote: |
| My guess is that I will quickly lose all excess poundage.... |
-and maybe, your hair as well. 
prerequisite #1 is that you LOVE children. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| R. S. Refugee wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
I'm down to one kindie class now and I'm sure the hogwan's much better off for it.
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So, how long is a kindie class? |
Forty minutes. We get about five minutes worth of learning done. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| casey's moon wrote: |
| I teach 9 25-minute kindergarten classes (actually a few of them are 30 minutes) every day, back to back except for one 25-minute lunch break. I'm surprised how well I do with this, but sometimes it is INCREDIBLY exhausting --- When I first started the new term, I actually fell asleep between two of my classes (the second class was late arriving), while I was sitting in a very tiny, hard chair. But now that I've adjusted, I find that my classes often energize me, and make me more productive in my hobbies and housework. |
I've run marathons and I don't have that sort of energy. I save the energy I could pour into my kindie class for hogwan. A monolingual Korean with an English tape recording would probably be better. |
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JacktheCat
Joined: 08 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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Singing and kinesthetic lessons. Singing is the key to kindergarten classes. You're going to become real familiar with what a TPR lesson plan involves.
Myself, I've found it real fun teaching kinddie classes. But I just don't have the physical stamina to do it for more than one or two classes a day. And I don't have the mental stamina to keep singing, "I'm a teapot, this is my spout ... " over and over and over again. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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The key to kind is keep things moving and predicatable. No part of a lesson should last more than 10 minutes. But you need a set routinue for them.
I started every lesson with a hello song. Then I take attenedance. The we'd do some sort of physical activity of some sort. Then they do some written activity then it was time for the good bye song. |
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casey's moon
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| casey's moon wrote: |
| I teach 9 25-minute kindergarten classes (actually a few of them are 30 minutes) every day, back to back except for one 25-minute lunch break. I'm surprised how well I do with this, but sometimes it is INCREDIBLY exhausting --- When I first started the new term, I actually fell asleep between two of my classes (the second class was late arriving), while I was sitting in a very tiny, hard chair. But now that I've adjusted, I find that my classes often energize me, and make me more productive in my hobbies and housework. |
I've run marathons and I don't have that sort of energy. I save the energy I could pour into my kindie class for hogwan. A monolingual Korean with an English tape recording would probably be better. |
Yeah, some people are excellent teachers for all ages EXCEPT kindergarten. Kindergarten requires more than just energy -- it requires a huge amount of patience and tolerance and smiles, smiles, smiles. Honestly, if I teach with a headache or am just feeling a little bit blue, my students can't seem to learn from me at all, until I put on a happy face, sing a couple of songs and then all is well. It usually makes me headache go away and brightens up my own mood too.
I agree with CLG completely about predictability and keeping things moving. Occasionally changing things completely makes for a nice change, but only in a blue moon. Most of the time, they seem to love knowing what will happen -- it gives them confidence to learn new material. |
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R. S. Refugee
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Shangra La, ROK
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:36 am Post subject: |
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| Yu_bum_suk wrote: |
| Shoulder press them, arm curl them, do jumping jacks with them... by the time they're ready to stop there's hardly any need for the gym. |
| casey's moon wrote: |
| ... now that I've adjusted, I find that my classes often energize me, and make me more productive in my hobbies and housework. |
So, cm, do you shoulder press them and arm curl them too, or is that basically a guy thing? |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| I have so little energy I think the best students for me would be corpses. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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I met a guy at Kyongju last weekend who I swear has been teaching kindy too long. In that when he talked he moved his head to one side, then to the other, back and forth like that while smiling in a very kind, beaming way. He looked like a Muppet  |
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casey's moon
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| R. S. Refugee wrote: |
| Yu_bum_suk wrote: |
| Shoulder press them, arm curl them, do jumping jacks with them... by the time they're ready to stop there's hardly any need for the gym. |
| casey's moon wrote: |
| ... now that I've adjusted, I find that my classes often energize me, and make me more productive in my hobbies and housework. |
So, cm, do you shoulder press them and arm curl them too, or is that basically a guy thing? |
Not so much! I am, however, quite good at picking misbehaving students up by the shoulders with minimal contact and no physical pain, and carrying them out of my classroom. I weigh about 53 kg, and don't look particularly strong, so it usually shocks the students and gains a ton of respect, and makes me feel like the weight training I've been doing for the last 5 years was not all for nought.  |
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teachingld2004
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:28 am Post subject: kindy |
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I am 52. I love kindy, they are my prefered age group. Currently I teach kindy and elementry. I had to really "beg" to get more kindy and less elementry hours, and now im happier.
What ever floats some ones boat. You have to decide what you want to do, you really cant get other peoples opions.
Yes, they are hard for some, and easier for others. You decide. |
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