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CoolTeach
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 Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 6:18 am Post subject: Celebrity Status at a public school. |
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byr
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xingyiman
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| Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:26 am Post subject: |
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| I don't know about public schools but at my hogwan "I'm Rick James biitch!" |
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CoolTeach
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| Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:22 pm Post subject: Sorry |
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byr
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:26 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Status at a public school. |
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| CoolTeach wrote: |
I was wondering if any teachers at public school have celebrity status. What good/bad experiences have people had?
Any resentment from other teachers?
Is this what the public school expects/wants?
How can I best utilize this to my advantage? |
Errr. Are you so sure you'll get celebrity status at your school? What is your cunning plan, exactly? Have you actually started working here?
I know my students like me. I'm kind to them. I try to make them laugh. My coteachers like me. I'm kind to them. I bring them food. That's about as far as I figure it or care to figure it. |
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CoolTeach
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| Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:46 pm Post subject: Duh.... |
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byr
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject: Re: Duh.... |
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| CoolTeach wrote: |
Cunning plan??? I have no cunning plan, I am not trying to be popular. It is just that some of the teachers mentioned something about the children always saying hello to me and disregarding them.
The post I made wasn't to try to gain celebrity status, it was to gain insight. I know the politics that go on around English Teaching and I want to avoid resentment by others. |
Every foreign teacher at a public school has this. The 1st graders run around me screaming my name, the second graders are "in love" with me and all the third graders wish they could speak English better so we could talk more seriously about their futures(this is the one hitch in my "never speak Korean with the students" plan--I usually meet up with some after they graduate and have more of a heart to heart--I can't always say what I need to in Korean, but I can understand them, and they always appreciate it).
At my public school, the teachers are baffled by it, don't really get it and their overall opinion runs the spectrum from "awwww.." to "that's cool": i.e., no negative reactions. At the foreign language high school I worked at some, not all, but some of the teacher had a bigger problem with it and slightly resented it. But that is because they imagine a future in which they are asked to leave the FLHS at age 48 because they are being replaced by Percival McBrighty, the white, fluffy-blonde, eyes-the-color-of-the-Adriatic-on-a-sunny-day 23 year-old from Yale with no teaching experience who responds to every questions with, "I AM fine, thank you. And YOU???" or just  .
Relax, they will calm down or they won't; if you have good relations with your co-teachers, that aspect will be fine as well. And as for how to "use" it: DUH--you have a willing, if not adoring, audience for your teaching. So teach, remembering how much easier you have it than the Korean teachers or the teachers back home who have to work really, really hard to keep their students' attention. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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The kids are trained to give a greeting to all teachers. I always make an effort to acknowledge that by smiling and saying good morning/afternoon.
My kids seem to enjoy having me as their teacher. Because I only see my third years every second week, there is always a big round of applause when I come into class. But I make a real effort to jazz up my lessons to make them interesting for my students, I also laugh and joke with them a lot, but most importantly, I walk around my classroom and give my students written feedback on their work. I've had 15 year olds who think the greatest thing in the world is when I write 'wow! you are õ��!' on their books.
In short the 'celebrity status' thing is short lived if you don't have the goods to back it up with. |
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JongnoGuru
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| Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
| In short the 'celebrity status' thing is short lived if you don't have the candy to back it up with. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
Because I only see my third years every second week, there is always a big round of applause when I come into class. |
Ah, the parallels...
Recently, because of similar experiences with the kids I only see once a month, for a gag I have started slipping in the back door at the same time the Korean teacher comes in through the front door and announces I am sick and they will have to study from the text. You should see what happens when pep squad turns into instant "demo" squad. I can't print some of the things the little darlings say...
But the candy quote is priceless. |
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crazylemongirl
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| Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| crazylemongirl wrote: |
| In short the 'celebrity status' thing is short lived if you don't have the candy to back it up with. |
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Ha! not always guru. My students know there's 'not always candy.' And definetly no candy for non-volunteers.
Actually our running joke is 'oh CLG teacher you are so pretty........ candy please.' Then I threaten to choco-pie slam (chokeslam) them. |
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CoolTeach
Joined: 19 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 2:55 am Post subject: No candy. |
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byr
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Homer
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 The kids say "hello" to you and that means you have celebrity status?
Oh boy....
How long have you been at the school? Perhaps its the "new teacher" fad.
Then again..perhaps they are just saying hello to their teacher...but hey..your star is ready on the walk of fame... |
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CoolTeach
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byr
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Qinella
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You gotta be careful about giving candy. I brought a bunch of American candy with me when I came back to Korea two weeks ago, but I've still got most of it. I ration it out veeerrry slowly, and only for students with perfect behavior. A few of them tried the "teacher me candy" routine, and I made it clear that anyone who requests candy will most certainly not receive it. So, I hear very little begging.
Now, at my last job, I was mobbed by the kids for candy all the time because at first I didn't yet know how to manipulate children's behavior. Now, I'm quite good at producing whichever response or attitude I need. Gotta pull them strings like a puppet master. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:45 am Post subject: |
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| They have been asking me for autographs. A couple of students came up to me with a magazine and I guess they think I am the person in the magazine posing with a couple of Korean movies stars. Although we are similar, I can't figure out why they think it's me. I really don't want to be a celebrity, it's so not my style. |
sometimes there' on punishment duty. I had to sign some notebooks when I was at an elementary school and it had written at the top of it
'I'm the most stupid student in the 5th grade'
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A few of them tried the "teacher me candy" routine, and I made it clear that anyone who requests candy will most certainly not receive it. So, I hear very little begging. |
Yes that's why anyone who says 'candy please' gets a 'chocopie slam.' Candy is banmal in CLG's classroom.
Just out of interest during my summer classes I put my students into teams, and they have a choice between candy now or points for their team to go towards a prize at the end of camp (I usually have a good prize for this) and they will always choose the points for their team than the candy for themselves! |
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