Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 1:16 am Post subject: |
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| guangho wrote: |
Hakwons are the hardest because the kids-through their moms- call the shots and they know it. (As an aside, i'd be shocked if i make it to June, never mind December- now may be a swell time to send me job leads via PM.) Learning is not on their agenda: "Teacher game!" "Teacher hangman!" "Teacher computer!" and then of course they go home and say "we played hangman"- my haggie needs to figure out if they are A SERIOUS ENGLISH SCHOOL or a playcenter- which is not necessary a bad thing to be.
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This is exactly it. At least hangman has some pedagogical value (especially if you mention that a word is from a certain book and have them furiously reading through the book trying to find it). It's the idea that throwing a ball around for 20 minutes of a 35-minute lesson is good education that really gets me.
Today when I asked one class whether they wanted to play hangman or memory cards, one kid said 'play PC-bang game'. It was my last class of the day, but they still had 35 minutes with the KT. Weren't they pleased when I said goodbye and informed them that I was leaving to go play the PC-bang game. |
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