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[wormholes101]

It seems most people grumble about their kindy classes. Lack of control, frustration with students progress etc...

Does anybody PREFER teaching kindy? Would you apply for a job specifically because it had kindy classes rather than adults or middle/high school?

Please tell...

[The evil penguin]

No. Unless I was allowed to carry a can of pepper spray and a big stick.

[Skywalker26]

Oh hell yeah!

I love my Kindy kids. Sure they can be a handful sometimes, but it sure beats the pants of teaching Middle School/High School kids that give you attitude everytime you ask them to exert a bit of effort into their studies.

I taught Junior and Senior High kids back in Australia, and totally prefer teaching these Kindy kids. We have so much fun.........and I always get kick-ass gifts from grateful parents.

But hey...........that's just what I think.

p.s. I don't have to clean the kids up after they've had a little 'accident' or hand assist them in anyway. I just get to play with them, teach them a little English, make them happy and then send them home. Couldn't ask for more really.

[Mr. Pink]

I almost went full time kindy about 3-4 years ago. Not sure how that would have worked out, but at the time I loved it. Also full time kindy meant I worked like 8am-2pm. Those are definately NICE hours to work.

I think now as I am getting older, I prefer to have a job with tons of holidays so I can do other things besides be a slave for cash.

[endofthewor1d]

except for having to get up early in the morning, kindies were my absolute favorite class of the day.
they're cute, enthusiastic, and they can soak up some english. even the dumb ones will give it their best.
sometimes they will misbehave, but i find that when they do, it's usually more a reflection of me not doing my job properly rather than them intentionally being bad. they all want to please the teacher. they don't give me the finger or talk about anton ohno or anything like that. they sing, color, count, run around, whatever.
kindies f**kin' rock.
and some of their mothers are sooooo hot.
my ideal job (limited to teaching english in korea) would be teaching kindies in the early afternoon, followed immediately by teaching female university students.

[wormholes101]

to mr pink and endoftheworld:

by reading your posts, it seems that you no longer work at kindy. would you consider going back to one? what would it take to go back?

mr pink... you mentioned 8-2 hours!? was that in korea or somewhere else? esl setting?

anyone else like kindy??

[waterbaby]

I like kindy.

[anae]

I love it. I couldn't imagine life without a kindergartener's joy of life and learning. Though I think I loved it more in Korea - ten kids to a class, no individual program plans, no teacher growth plans, no meeting with occupational therapists, very few parent-teacher meetings, no union dues....

[Paji eh Wong]

I liked it too. And I'm a guy. Everyone at my school like kindy better than elementary. It was better organized and the expectations were more resonable. It can work, just lower your expectations. With 5 year olds, your going to be teaching basic social interaction as much as anything.

[endofthewor1d]

[wormholes101]

I'm considering going back to doing kindy classes. I used to do them about 2 years ago. Do you guys have any practical tips? If you could structure you answers rather than a stream of consciousness style, that'd be great. What do you think is the most important thing? Do you ever speak Korean with them? Are you the sole teacher?

I like teaching younger kids; have been working with grades 3-6 for quite a while now... i think i do quite a decent job. But kindy kids really are a different kettle of fish!