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jaderedux
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Location: Lurking outside Seoul
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| in my experience k-co-teachers are a waste of space in the class. putting on makeup and talking on a mobile phone doesn't actually help. i'd rather they weren't there at all most of the time. |
Um...why on earth would you put up with that? Are you in public school. My principal would give serious smack down to any teacher caught doing that in a class room. Our school doesn't allow students to carry cell phones. He wanders around the school peeking in classrooms and such so that just wouldn't fly.
I would be raising holy heck if a teacher pulled that crap in my class. My lesson plans are pretty meticulous and the korean teacher's parts are usually spelled out pretty clearly and the Korean teacher is in the front of the class with me or wandering around making sure students are keeping up, not sleeping, not reading the latest X-men or whatever.
Curious as to why you put up with that kind of behavior from a teacher.
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paperbag princess
Joined: 07 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| afterschool program=no recourse. as far as i could tell, the coteachers were there to report on our behaviour. no one cared that they didn't do their job. |
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spinner
Joined: 24 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| frozenpeas wrote: |
Wow! Who is this Spinner/Asiainmind bloke?
Maybe he is like the perpetually angry teacher we all had at school...nobody liked him, everyone had a nickname for him and eventually he was fired for bringing a bottle of sherry into class one morning...
I always wondered where those people came from. |
Ask your mother where I came from and that's how you got here. Bloke! Stupid Englishman. |
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jaderedux
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| afterschool program=no recourse. as far as i could tell, the coteachers were there to report on our behaviour. no one cared that they didn't do their job. |
Then PUT THEM TO WORK! Don't let them just talk on the phone. If they start talking on the phone stop your class and tell the class to be very quiet until the phone call is over. Make sure they understand what you are doing.
Get some activities that require her/his participation. USE THEM! They are there to help YOU!
Make doing nothing NOT an option! Depends on how much it means to you.
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Yu_Bum_suk
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| jaderedux wrote: |
| paperbag princess wrote: |
| afterschool program=no recourse. as far as i could tell, the coteachers were there to report on our behaviour. no one cared that they didn't do their job. |
Then PUT THEM TO WORK! Don't let them just talk on the phone. If they start talking on the phone stop your class and tell the class to be very quiet until the phone call is over. Make sure they understand what you are doing.
Get some activities that require her/his participation. USE THEM! They are there to help YOU!
Make doing nothing NOT an option! Depends on how much it means to you.
Jade |
Or just suggest politely that you're fine without them and they can stay in the staff room doing something else. When I first started I had a younger KT for most of my high school classes. The first lesson of the week she'd be all into it, wanting to answer questions and being a model student, with the students more hesitant to participate. By the end of the week she'd be a model of indolence. Nice girl, though. Since she was female and younger than me it was easier to play boss and give her advice on what to do and what not to do, and she turned out to be useful in my vocational classes and like the free time during my other classes. The older teachers I had for just a few other classes I did the 'I'm OK if you need to work on something else' thing with. |
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jaderedux
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:04 am Post subject: |
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| Or just suggest politely that you're fine without them and they can stay in the staff room doing something else. When I first started I had a younger KT for most of my high school classes. The first lesson of the week she'd be all into it, wanting to answer questions and being a model student, with the students more hesitant to participate. By the end of the week she'd be a model of indolence. Nice girl, though. Since she was female and younger than me it was easier to play boss and give her advice on what to do and what not to do, and she turned out to be useful in my vocational classes and like the free time during my other classes. The older teachers I had for just a few other classes I did the 'I'm OK if you need to work on something else' thing with. |
Have to agree with the above. That is a tactful way to handle the situation if you just don't want them in the room with you. It is like giving them a choice.
But doing nothing, talking on phones and the never ending spackling of makeup should not be tolerated.
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Homer
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:58 am Post subject: |
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Yu_Bum_suk,
That is pretty much the best way to go about it. Just do something about the situation instead of sitting there stewing in your own pool of resentement.
Perhaps the co-teacher also dislikes the fact that he or she has to teach with a foreign teacher she or he sees as not really qualified. This co-teacher might be feeling the exact same thing you are or be frustrated because the boss told him or her to be in the class with you.
There are ways to handle the situation like a professional and to improve the situation.
Good luck with that....  |
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