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[Whistleblower]

Well. I love corporate work and enjoy teaching Business English and am always questioning the way I teach students, so I got an exciting opportunity to develop a teaching program. The staff at where I work told me that they wanted to develop a curriculum.

I spent one and a half hours getting the details for classes (number of students, levels, course book or not, etc) and then got a wall calender, wrote on different pieces of paper: "Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing" and stuck them on specific days that the students are to have classes. Next I got material prepared for the classes and worked out that to save preparation time we could provide the two groups of students the same material over two weeks (as they have 4 classes) which is divided in to each area of language usage (reading, writing, speaking and listening).

Then my supervisor looked at what I was creating and developing for classes. She said, "Umm ... the classes can't be the same as we have told students that they will be different due to different levels". I was fuming, I sat down tour off all the work I done and contemplated about walking out and jacking it all in. I sat at my desk and didn't say a word for about 45 minutes.

I am now thinking, why does my Korean supervisor think she is more qualified to provide and promise information about classes when we haven't organised anything about classes, not arranged who is going to be in each student group (is based on a mixture of levels or based upon ability), not had anything organised for next months lessons and had no other meetings with other teachers? Is it me or is the Korean way to promise the business client first what to do and then to amend the program according to what is promised? I thought it was more important to think about a program and then provide information, not the other way round.

I am really hot under the collar at the moment and what to shout at my Korean co-teacher for promising specific classes before we haven't organised anything about classes.

Any ideas or help about sorting this out. I have to provide an orientation about classes to students but I can't do anything now as there is nothing I can prepare as something is promised and I don't know where I stand. HELP ME!!!!