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butter808fly · Joined: 09 May 2004 Location: Northern California, USA

I read carefully but maybe assumed you never initially talked to your co-teacher about the class. I just wonder why you are left out the loop is all.

I find out last minute about canceled classes, but usually my teacher finds out last minute as well. The whole hierachy thing sux here and if Im every Queen I will definatly let everyone know in advance about any changes to the schedule. Well maybe. Power is a seductive thing.

Pak Yu Man · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Location: The Ida galaxy

Same thing happened to me. I was supposed to give a class a verbal test. I was told many times weeks in advance to have it finished, make the questions easy, blah blah blah.

Anyways after spending my time making these questions, I arrive at school and was told about 5 mins before class "you don't need to test them".

Does anyone know anyone who can make class plans in 5 mins?
I had my laptop, all classes have beam projectors, I had a movie. Everything clicked together.

Everything went well (well watching the same part of the same movie 4 or 5 times can be annoying) until one guy says " you shouldn't be watching movies in class"

I lost it.

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Yeah- co-teachers here are pretty much a waste of space. They make VERY easy tests (so everyone complains about my tests), order terrible textbooks (so I have to deal with bad material), and they're supposed to call the parents with any problems because, BIG SHOCK, I don't speak Korean. Last week, we had "open classes" -mothers watched the classes and then grilled me, through my "translator", the director, about their kids.
Well, one of the mothers was SHOCKED and EMBARRASSED to discover, from ME, that her child isn't doing very well. He's been in this crappy school for over a year and can't say even simple things. This has been on every evaluation I've done over the past few weeks (I've only been here weeks), and the co-teacher never bothered to tell the parent. BTW, the co-teacher also gave this student low marks.
It's the co-teacher's job to let parents know these things, but, as usual, left it up to me to be the heavy and deliver the bad news.

If/when a parent calls with any concerns, any blame is shifted to ME, of course.

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Oh, and the co-teachers didn't even bother to tell me that the end of the month is test time. My students didn't take tests the last week in May, because no one bothered to tell me what was up.

Plus, rooms are changed, all of the time, and who gets to search for the new classroom? Me, of course. Co-teachers are a waste of space.