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ds_fan
Joined: 07 Apr 2008
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 Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:59 am Post subject: teaching the parents |
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Ok so my hagwon strikes again where i had to take a call from the owner of the francise, they told me i have to teach the parents of the kids for one class a week. iv checked the contract and there is no mention about doing this, though there is no mention about not doing this either. obviously they have seen this a a little money maker.
its during my normal hours though.
any opinions? Does this happen often? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:14 am Post subject: Re: teaching the parents |
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| ds_fan wrote: |
Ok so my hagwon strikes again where i had to take a call from the owner of the francise, they told me i have to teach the parents of the kids for one class a week. iv checked the contract and there is no mention about doing this, though there is no mention about not doing this either. obviously they have seen this a a little money maker.
its during my normal hours though.
any opinions? Does this happen often? |
Within your scheduled working hours and under your contracted teaching load = you get to teach parents.
Good news is that they are usually easier and more fun to teach. Roll with it. My parents classes were usually the best ones (with lots of little perks to go with it).
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ciccone_youth
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:46 am Post subject: |
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| i also got stuck with teaching teachers at my school.... it's alright, i just have conversations with them, but i hate 'teaching' adults. |
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Horangi Munshin
Joined: 06 Apr 2003
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:49 am Post subject: |
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It might be interesting.
I like my teachers' and parents' classes at my school. |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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| ciccone_youth wrote: |
| i also got stuck with teaching teachers at my school.... it's alright, i just have conversations with them, but i hate 'teaching' adults. |
actually I always liked teaching college age and higher.
They are motivated... they don't need to be "entertained" and you can have some fun times with political incorrectness and double entendres when opportunities present themselves. |
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ciccone_youth
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| yes it would be fun if they knew more English.... they only know the basics, like how to say their names and they want to learn grammar, which is a drag for me at 4pm. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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That's something I've wanted to do.
You can do wonders for your students if you can persuade the parents to speak English to the kids at home.
In Korea, there is a myth that children's learning is all the responsibility of the teachers and that there is nothing the parents can do.
See if you can dispel that myth.
See if you can get the parents to change all their 이리 와's into "come here" and their 애들아's into "children." |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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| ciccone_youth wrote: |
| yes it would be fun if they knew more English.... they only know the basics, like how to say their names and they want to learn grammar, which is a drag for me at 4pm. |
aahh. I see where you are coming from.
but..
grammar is incredibly easy to teach as English grammar is very easy.
I'm a big believer in learning grammar, because vocabulary flows with it/alongside and it's the key building block to learning a language properly. |
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mnhnhyouh
Joined: 21 Nov 2006
Location: The Middle Kingdom
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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I teach the English teachers twice a week, and two classes for non-English teachers, one intermediate and one beginner.
At first these were easy, but the conversation started to flag a little so I bought a book from Kyobo. It is called What Do You Think: 30 Controversial Issues Today for Very-Advanced classes. I think the very advanced bit is too high, not for my students, but for the rating of the material.
But the conversation is robust. Yesterday we did a story about public breast feeding. It moved onto cultural differences in the perception of nudity, maternity and paternity leave from work and how views on these subjects change over time.
Great stuff. I like teaching adults.
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| mnhnhyouh wrote: |
I teach the English teachers twice a week, and two classes for non-English teachers, one intermediate and one beginner.
At first these were easy, but the conversation started to flag a little so I bought a book from Kyobo. It is called What Do You Think: 30 Controversial Issues Today for Very-Advanced classes. I think the very advanced bit is too high, not for my students, but for the rating of the material.
But the conversation is robust. Yesterday we did a story about public breast feeding. It moved onto cultural differences in the perception of nudity, maternity and paternity leave from work and how views on these subjects change over time.
Great stuff. I like teaching adults.
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agreed. You learn a lot of things as a teacher about what people think, local culture, etc. on a level far more sophisticated than what you'd get out of high schoolers or younger. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| bogey666 wrote: |
| mnhnhyouh wrote: |
I teach the English teachers twice a week, and two classes for non-English teachers, one intermediate and one beginner.
At first these were easy, but the conversation started to flag a little so I bought a book from Kyobo. It is called What Do You Think: 30 Controversial Issues Today for Very-Advanced classes. I think the very advanced bit is too high, not for my students, but for the rating of the material.
But the conversation is robust. Yesterday we did a story about public breast feeding. It moved onto cultural differences in the perception of nudity, maternity and paternity leave from work and how views on these subjects change over time.
Great stuff. I like teaching adults.
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agreed. You learn a lot of things as a teacher about what people think, local culture, etc. on a level far more sophisticated than what you'd get out of high schoolers or younger. |
Sorry to go off topic bogey but does your avatar indicate you enjoy spending time in Humboldt Park/Logan Square? |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| bogey666 wrote: |
| mnhnhyouh wrote: |
I teach the English teachers twice a week, and two classes for non-English teachers, one intermediate and one beginner.
At first these were easy, but the conversation started to flag a little so I bought a book from Kyobo. It is called What Do You Think: 30 Controversial Issues Today for Very-Advanced classes. I think the very advanced bit is too high, not for my students, but for the rating of the material.
But the conversation is robust. Yesterday we did a story about public breast feeding. It moved onto cultural differences in the perception of nudity, maternity and paternity leave from work and how views on these subjects change over time.
Great stuff. I like teaching adults.
h |
agreed. You learn a lot of things as a teacher about what people think, local culture, etc. on a level far more sophisticated than what you'd get out of high schoolers or younger. |
Sorry to go off topic bogey but does your avatar indicate you enjoy spending time in Humboldt Park/Logan Square? |
Claro que si!
it's the Puerto Rican girls that are most likely to look like that.. not the Mexicanas.
problem is they peak at say 14.. then they start fucking their neighborhood gangbanger punk boyfriends. by 16 they're hoodrats.. getting fat and swear worse than sailor.
by 18, they have a kid or two, are really fat and are on welfare.
It's a truly sickening sight/plight.
so you really have to go Puerto Rico proper... or Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela..
btw is that the old Comiskey Park scoreboard? |
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ciccone_youth
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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| ciccone_youth wrote: |
| yes it would be fun if they knew more English.... they only know the basics, like how to say their names and they want to learn grammar, which is a drag for me at 4pm. |
aahh. I see where you are coming from.
but..
grammar is incredibly easy to teach as English grammar is very easy.
I'm a big believer in learning grammar, because vocabulary flows with it/alongside and it's the key building block to learning a language properly. |
yes it's true, i should act more happy when it comes to the teacher's classes, i dread them.... they are so nice though, they tell me interesting things about the korean culture. |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe some MILFS in the class. |
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ciccone_youth
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| not in mine, it's all ajummas. |
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