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SweetBear
Joined: 18 May 2003
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 Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:12 am Post subject: 25 ice creams |
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Was just thinking back on the day. I decided to buy ice cream for the kids as, for the most part they've been real troopers, what with the weather being so hot and the aircon and lights only lasting through half the class.
I just realized that out of 25 ice creams I got one, yes one thank you. I just wonder how much thanks I would have gotten had I been the K teacher. Saying thank you was pounded into me as a kid, sure I'd forget sometimes, but this has happened many times before. |
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thebum
Joined: 09 Jan 2005
Location: North Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:49 am Post subject: |
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| Maybe you could start pounding it into them? |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:21 pm Post subject: Re: 25 ice creams |
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| SweetBear wrote: |
Was just thinking back on the day. I decided to buy ice cream for the kids as, for the most part they've been real troopers, what with the weather being so hot and the aircon and lights only lasting through half the class.
I just realized that out of 25 ice creams I got one, yes one thank you. I just wonder how much thanks I would have gotten had I been the K teacher. Saying thank you was pounded into me as a kid, sure I'd forget sometimes, but this has happened many times before. |
Pound it into their heads. I sure do.
I give candy and if they don't say thank you, then I say it. They get it.
Very nice of you to buy the ice cream. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject: Re: 25 ice creams |
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| SweetBear wrote: |
Was just thinking back on the day. I decided to buy ice cream for the kids as, for the most part they've been real troopers, what with the weather being so hot and the aircon and lights only lasting through half the class.
I just realized that out of 25 ice creams I got one, yes one thank you. I just wonder how much thanks I would have gotten had I been the K teacher. Saying thank you was pounded into me as a kid, sure I'd forget sometimes, but this has happened many times before. |
Yes, it is our job to teach them. Maybe my camp students have higher level English, but they always thank me, and the ajmuma at the store. |
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deessell
Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Also seems like the perfect opportunity to teach "may"...I have an icecream please? Yes, you may. No, you may not. |
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The evil penguin
Joined: 24 May 2003
Location: Doing something naughty near you.....
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Buy the kid who said thank you an extra ice-cream. And present itto him/her in front of the other students as an example..... |
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Skippy
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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That special Magic word I learn as a Kid.
Please
it is the same with Thank-You. Is it to much to ask for a "Candy, Please". "Bathroom Please". I can tell a kid ten times and each time it will be simply "CANDY" in a loud voice.
You do have to pound it in pretty hard. Try a hammer!
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keithinkorea
Joined: 17 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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A lot of Korean kids are spoilt little gits. I have some older kids who are incredibly rude, they don't get a thing unless they say please. All they get is me saying, 'magic word? do you know the magic word?' I sometimes have to ask them 'where did you leave your manners?'
Korean kids often have no manners at all. I try and rectify this by teaching them what is and what isn't appropriate, but it is very hard. |
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SweetBear
Joined: 18 May 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know, I just assumed that
teaching a kid manners was generally a parents domain. I do reinforce it
on occassion
I don't expect thanks and it probably wouldn't have occured to me, except that the whole point of this was a reward and in my mind appreciation, even in the form of a smile or a happier class would have been nice. My reward though was that they were relatively well behaved knowing that ice cream was coming. I do generally see good manners being excercised around the K teachers and just wondered about that. Having said that I can count on being respected for the most part.
Thanks for your thoughts. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| SweetBear wrote: |
I don't know, I just assumed that
teaching a kid manners was generally a parents domain. I do reinforce it
on occassion
I don't expect thanks and it probably wouldn't have occured to me, except that the whole point of this was a reward and in my mind appreciation, even in the form of a smile or a happier class would have been nice. My reward though was that they were relatively well behaved knowing that ice cream was coming. I do generally see good manners being excercised around the K teachers and just wondered about that. Having said that I can count on being respected for the most part.
Thanks for your thoughts. |
We have to teach them in English. Besides, teachers are, for better or worse, and too often the worse, socializers. It would be a rather narrow view of what happens in a classroom, where students, especially in Korea, spend much more of their waking time, to think that we are just teaching words. |
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