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prince of hockey · Joined: 03 May 2006 Location: busan, south korea

Recently I had a discussion with a co-teacher regarding going over a text-book dialogue with students. I had them read out in pairs in front of the class to check their pronunciation and intonation. But the co-teacher said I shouldn't have because of parent's complaints that I was giving them an
unfair advantage in the upcoming midterm. Midterm? Do they have a pronunciation section in the mid-term? What gives? Was I overstepping into her teaching?

some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

You mean the parents complain that you are teaching them what they need to know for the exam? Laughing

That's got to be the lamest excuse for a complaint I've ever heard.

I guess you should be going over Calculus with them or something other than "the subject you were hired to teach". Rolling Eyes

antoniothegreat · Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Location: Yangpyeong

wow, that is ridiculous....
keep going, what are they doing to do, fire you for teaching?

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Your co-teacher's obviously a moron, but I might still suggest changing your approach. If I tried to get every one of my students to come up in pairs it would be too hard to keep the class' attention the whole time, it would be too logistically awkward, and some students would be too nervous to say anything loudly enough for anyone to hear. Instead what I do is about once or month I give them a worksheet or puzzle that will take about 15 and go around checking the students' pronunciation in pairs. They stay quitely occupied in their seats and I'm able to give up to 34 students a minute of one-to-two attention.