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MollyBloom · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Location: James Joyce's pants

So, a supervisor from my school's gu is visiting on Tuesday, and apparently he is just walking around to the different classrooms and observing the classes.

Now, my co-teacher is a contracted teacher, so she will only be working at my school for five more months. She told me that the supervisor will be looking solely at my teaching and not at hers, because she is a contracted teacher and not part of my school. Nevertheless, she is still freaking out about everything being perfect and is stressed out about it.

I was under the impression any class supervision of that manner is directed towards the Korean teacher and not the native speaker.

I don't feel nervous about open/supervised classes, but I just want to know the deal so I can be better prepared: are we both being evaluated? Just her? Just me?

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

MollyBloom · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Location: James Joyce's pants

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

50% of the time, they don't show.

yingwenlaoshi · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!

Who cares? You have a one-year contract. The Korean teacher is making you freak out for her own benefit. She may only have a short-term contract, but what her present employer says will affect her career down the line.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 3:46 pm Post subject:

I have the same on Tuesday - my district school inspector is bringing several other district inspectors to look at our school. One of my co-teachers seemed a little 'freaked out' so I gave her a lesson plan for what I will do in that class. It seemed to calm her down - like giving her a valium. I was reluctant because I've never done lesson plans except for the open class 'dog & pony' show and didn't want to set prescedent. My other three co-teachers haven't even mentioned it.

BS.Dos. · Joined: 29 Mar 2007

They were up here last week. Everyone was flapping about two days before hand and my handler told me that they'd be observing one or more of my classes and that I'd need to produce some snazzy, detailed lesson plans, which I did. On the day they were here, my classes had been re-scheduled so that I had three lessons on the bounce so as to give them plenty of time to catch whitey in action. Suffice to say, they didn't make a single appearance and had left the school, evidently satisfied, before lunch. I'm guessing that they'd heard how bad the school lunches are here and got the hell out before slop-up.