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Peter Jackson
Joined: 23 Apr 2006
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 Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject: Korean teachers and classroom equipment: Weird |
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I found this strange. I needed a map or globe for an activity I had planned. I found plenty of world maps on the internet but the countries were really hard to see off the projector screen. I thought, this being a school and all, that a globe, map or atlas would be easily found. My co-teacher seemed dumbfounded at my request, giving the expression like, "What a globe or map in a school...unheard of!" I finally managed to get one, but he had to ask the students if one existed.
Well a student went and got one from somewhere; it was covered in dust. But after the class the co-teacher was so protective of it and wanted to snatch it away so it could continue gathering dust in whichever location they found it. I told him that I would need it again the next class.
Then after class today another co-teacher was eager to run away with it as if she was concerned it might get lost! God forbid it be used!
This just struck me as odd. |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting.
My high school students tell me they don't study world geography like I did when I was at secondary school. That could explain the absence of maps and globes.
I have a little plastic globe on my desk and my students are always fascinated by it.
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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Thankfully the geography teacher was able to find me a globe when I wanted one for a class. Afterwards it sat around the staff room for about a month before disappearing again.
I wonder who has a worse knowledge of world geography - Korean or American students? |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
Thankfully the geography teacher was able to find me a globe when I wanted one for a class. Afterwards it sat around the staff room for about a month before disappearing again.
I wonder who has a worse knowledge of world geography - Korean or American students? |
You have a geography teacher????
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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Can't have things like that laying around, wouldn't be long before some show-off used it as a soccer ball...  |
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passport220
Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Location: Gyeongsangbuk-do province
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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We have a large world map mounted on a heavy wooden board. It is so large and heavy two students are assigned to carry it back and forth between the teacher�s office and the classroom that it will be used in.
The whole of the Japanese Islands have been cut out of the map. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| passport220 wrote: |
We have a large world map mounted on a heavy wooden board. It is so large and heavy two students are assigned to carry it back and forth between the teacher�s office and the classroom that it will be used in.
The whole of the Japanese Islands have been cut out of the map. |
 That's bad. Then again, my children still seem to have a hate on for the Swiss... |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| That's bad. Then again, my children still seem to have a hate on for the Swiss... |
Weird. Ten years ago, when I first came here, it was a love fest for the Swiss - ask Korean university students where in the world they wanted to go and they would almost all say, "I want to go to Swiss." |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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| ilovebdt wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
Thankfully the geography teacher was able to find me a globe when I wanted one for a class. Afterwards it sat around the staff room for about a month before disappearing again.
I wonder who has a worse knowledge of world geography - Korean or American students? |
You have a geography teacher????
ilovebdt |
We have one for the whole school, and I gather that she teaches almost exclusively Korean geography, mostly physical.
Interestingly her English is way better than many public school 'English' teachers. |
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:22 am Post subject: |
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| If I need any type of visual aid or anything, I make sure to ask a week in advance. |
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NightSky
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:45 am Post subject: |
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| We have maps all over, but the kids usually scratch out the country names they don't like. |
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