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stargazer
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 4:10 am Post subject: High School |
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| Just had a job offer for teaching high school. What are the pros and cons of this kind of job ? |
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whatthefunk
Joined: 21 Apr 2003
Location: Dont have a clue
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 4:14 am Post subject: |
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| Ive never taught at a high school, but my older, high school aged students really couldn't care less about English. They sleep in class because they get around 3 hours of sleep a night, they don't pay attention, and alot of them have really bad attitudes about everything. It might be different in the actual high school though... |
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posco's trumpet
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: Beneath the Underdog
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 5:53 am Post subject: |
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BTM
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Back in the saddle.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 6:01 am Post subject: |
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I turned down a job at an (apparently) famous high school in Gangnam back in August. They wanted me onsite for 40 hours a week with contact hours around 25, for just over 2 million. No thanks.
The contract was a joke, too. Worst I've seen here.
If the money had been better for the hours they wanted and the contract not so laughably lopsided, I might've taken it. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| posco's trumpet wrote: |
WTF is not far off the mark. I worked in a high school for 3 years.
It's not all bad, though. Most of the time I just goofed off. I got free meals. I had a beautiful free apartment. I got almost as much time off as as a university teacher. The expectations on me were next to zero. Heavy drinking was much easier to get away with than at other jobs (the other teachers all do it, the kids don't care, and nobody gives a hoot what you do in class as long as it's not too egregious). |
Man, that job would've rocked. Somebody hates me up there. I have insane expectations. |
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Anda
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 2:27 am Post subject: Um |
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You can go from a Foreign language high school (great students) to a high school in a good location (good students) to down the lader to a high school where your students hate English and have not the slightest interest in studying it.
You must be able to control a class of around 35 students by yourself. Prepare your own lessons and get on with Korean teachers. |
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