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What do your students call you?
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What do your students call you?
Teacher <first name> or just teacher (PS)
15%
 15%  [ 11 ]
Teacher <first name> or just teacher (hagwon)
19%
 19%  [ 14 ]
Mr. ? / Mrs. ? / etc. (PS)
16%
 16%  [ 12 ]
Mr. ? / Mrs. ? / etc. (hagwon)
4%
 4%  [ 3 ]
Just my first name (PS)
23%
 23%  [ 17 ]
Just my first name (hagwon)
5%
 5%  [ 4 ]
I doubt they know my name...
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Other
14%
 14%  [ 10 ]
Total Votes : 71

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nomad-ish



Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 7:51 am    Post subject: What do your students call you? Reply with quote
so, it's the first class at your new school... what do you tell your students to call you?

...and did you receive any resistance regarding this from your korean co-teachers/co-workers?



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captain kirk



Joined: 29 Jan 2003
PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I wish my students to call me, 'white man from across the sea who fell from the sky in a great, flying bird made of fire and thunder'. Or, 'great, heavenly teacher'.

Actually there was a grade six student, a real comedian who looks like Eye-gor from the movie Young Frankenstein, called me 'oh great, heavenly teacher' but he was being facetious. That's ok tho.
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Draz



Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 8:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I told them to call me "Ms [last name]" but they call me that only maybe 10% of the time.

Usually they just call me teacher. I don't mind, because usually if they are trying to get my attention there are more interesting things to focus on than whether they know my name or not.
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Atavistic



Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 9:57 am    Post subject: Re: What do your students call you? Reply with quote
nomad-ish wrote:
so, it's the first class at your new school... what do you tell your students to call you?


First class, you say?

Well, in the States I was Ms Viking (because my name is from the song Atavistic Viking). But here my coteachers all go by "First Name Teacher" or "First Name" so I took a page from their book. So "Atavistic" or "Atavistic Teacher" is it. Everyone knows my name. Heck, most of them remember my last name because it's similar to a Korean word, and Koreanized the exact same as that word.
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icicle



Joined: 09 Feb 2007
Location: Gyeonggi do Korea
PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
In my hagwon all of the teachers are called "First Name" Teacher so that is what I have been called by the students since the first time I had a class with them.
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 4:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
son-sang-nimh, Ttompatz son-sang-nimh, Ttompatz teacher are all used and I accept them all.

Sometimes (jokingly) I am also known as "jamie-op-ta teacher" but I never hear "she-rock".

The only students who use ban-mal with me are some of the 6th grade students and they quickly get a "cuff" in the air for it.
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Stormy



Joined: 10 Jan 2008
Location: Here & there
PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 8:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Usually teacher, stormy or, less often, stormy teacher or english teacher. One of the teachers in my teacher's English class calls me miss stormy which is funny, I keep telling her to just call me stormy but she doesn't.

On my first day I was asked what I wanted to be called and I said I didn't mind, I was happy with stormy. They said it had to be teacher stormy or stormy teacher because that was more respectful. Now it changes from day to day which doesn't phase me.
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BS.Dos.



Joined: 29 Mar 2007
PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Teacher usually, but some of my better students call me by my first name, which I actually prefer.
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tongtongee



Joined: 17 May 2008
Location: here and there
PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
ttompatz wrote:

The only students who use ban-mal with me are some of the 6th grade students and they quickly get a "cuff" in the air for it.



Yeah, I do the same thing, but I also threaten to make them use the same banmal with a Korean teacher/counselor. They usually understand pretty quickly that it is not acceptable.
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Atavistic



Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2008 6:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Whenever a kid uses banmal with me, I give them a death glare and say "why are you speaking