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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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 Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject: PS prep time |
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afsjesse
Joined: 23 Sep 2007
Location: Kickin' it in 'Kato town.
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| I just started with EPIK after a year in hagwon hell.... So far I'm checking my email 1000 times per day and thinking of things to teach. For my first week the school is having me "observe" which entails me introducing myself to a class for 10 minutes and coming back to my desk for the other 40 about twice per day.... I love it! |
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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lesson plan, facebook, msn, repeat.
i've got a lot more to plan this year around since my school wants all original lesson plans (no working from the school text), but i still find i have lots of free time at work  |
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KYC
Joined: 11 May 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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Last year with GEPIK, I taught all classes by myself with no Korean teachers whatsoever. Extensive planning..was really tired after a year.
This year with SMOE, I have 3 coteachers. 1 is very open to my ideas and loves the materials I come up with. 1 treats me like a human tape recorder. The other 1 allows me to plan the games and activities...but it's the 6th graders...so they don't wanna do anything. They hate everything my coteacher have planend and they also hate whatever I have planned.
I also have a few extra over time classes in which I teach alone. I do all the planning as well. I have about an hour..sometimes two of down time each day  |
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I_Am_The_Kiwi
Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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half the day is spent in class, the other half at my desk.
No coteacher, all original lessons. Yet i still have LOADS of free time. Takes maybe a day to pump out a lesson plan. Only need 2 a week. And im not exactly craming all day to make that one lesson.
Its not hard. Hardest thing is coming up with original, interesting lessons all the time - getting harder now that the year is closing down and im running out of good ideas to teach. |
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Easter Clark
Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Location: Hiding from Yie Eun-woong
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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It comes in waves for me. I don't do any planning unless I'm in the mood, and then I hit it pretty hard. When the kids are having tests I'll usually do two or three weeks' of plans so I can coast for a while. I have to work a bit harder for my after school parents' class twice a week, but I don't mind because that's the only time I ever feel like a *real* teacher!
Lately I've become pretty jaded, so these days, a worksheet could constitute a lesson plan. I've discovered that the amount of time I put into planning doesn't really influence the amount of time the kids pay attention in class. |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| My co-teacher for 4th and 6th wants to stick EXACTLY to the national curriculum, so we just split the class time and she "controls" the computer and CD ROMs. She makes up separate sheets to supplement stuff in the book. My school wants me to play games and cover book work with my 3rd graders, so that's where I put all my lesson planning time in. |
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Ukon
Joined: 29 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Prep time? More like sneak off work early with my co-teacher to do something silly or get bagel. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| It comes in waves for me, too. I like to have undisturbed blocks of time, too, so I sometimes stay after school for an hour or two when I can lesson-plan in peace and quiet. If I was better organised and more of a procrastinator I could probably use down time on exam days to prepare for that time two weeks down the road when I know I'll be super busy, but that's not how I seem to work. Also, I find a teach a lot better when I'm teaching something I just prepared the night before and not a week prior. Plus my coworkers think I'm a super-hard worker for often staying late when I'm really just a hopeless procrastinator. |
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jangsalgida
Joined: 11 Jan 2006
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| It comes in waves for me, too. I like to have undisturbed blocks of time, too, so I sometimes stay after school for an hour or two when I can lesson-plan in peace and quiet. If I was better organised and more of a procrastinator I could probably use down time on exam days to prepare for that time two weeks down the road when I know I'll be super busy, but that's not how I seem to work. Also, I find a teach a lot better when I'm teaching something I just prepared the night before and not a week prior. Plus my coworkers think I'm a super-hard worker for often staying late when I'm really just a hopeless procrastinator. |
"Just a hopeless procrastinator" = FUNNY. Check it out, I'm new at this but "undisturbed blocks" sounds a bit like me too.
A co-teacher approached me late last Friday telling me what he wanted for the first class Monday morning and 3 others later in the day. I told him I already gave him the plan and had the lesson printed(must do this 2 days ahead of time). He told me it wasn't his fault chuseok was on Monday. WTF is that? It's not mine either but why should I/we/him/ forget what was planned just because of chuseok? Simply extend the plan to the next meeting time is what I expected or do you/we cancel lesson plans because of holidays?
He told me last Friday that if I needed copies I didn't need to have them done 2 days in advance, all I had to do was see him. I knew at the time that was about the about the stupidest thing I had ever heard so this morning/today I spent much of MY day making copies.
I got 5 co-teachers and if all of them start this Shyte/continue to come up to me at the last minute trying to tell me they want to do something else, I'm going to go F****** NUTS. This S*** ain't happening!
Who the F*** trained him on working with Native Teachers? This is the guy I think I'm suppose to be with during the "observation class." Seems like I will be completely responsible for that, and if he approaches me at the last minute telling me he wants to do something else, I'll tell him to get F*****! Today I told him we'd be working together for that "observation class" while he knew nothing about it even though I had been told about it maybe 10 days ago. That's why I think I'll be totally responsible. I've got experience(teaching in Korea/not public school exp.) and that's probably why they hired me, they know I can do it. I will have to simply start drawing the line. |
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ardis
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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| I usually do my lesson planning on the weekend before I teach (procrastinator), so during the school day, I'm usually on facebook, studying some Korean, or chatting with friends. I feel mildly bad, but my co-teachers always look at me sympathetically and say, "I am sorry. This all must be very boring for you, since you have no homeroom class." Meh. It beats being constantly on the go at a hagwon. |
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Faunaki
Joined: 15 Jun 2007
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| During prep time I get a part time K teacher to tutor me in Korean. I study twice a week for 45 min. It's a good way to kill time and do something productive. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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| It comes in waves for me, too. I like to have undisturbed blocks of time, too, so I sometimes stay after school for an hour or two when I can lesson-plan in peace and quiet. If I was better organised and more of a procrastinator I could probably use down time on exam days to prepare for that time two weeks down the road when I know I'll be super busy, but that's not how I seem to work. Also, I find a teach a lot better when I'm teaching something I just prepared the night before and not a week prior. Plus my coworkers think I'm a super-hard worker for often staying late when I'm really just a hopeless procrastinator. |
"Just a hopeless procrastinator" = FUNNY. Check it out, I'm new at this but "undisturbed blocks" sounds a bit like me too.
A co-teacher approached me late last Friday telling me what he wanted for the first class Monday morning and 3 others later in the day. I told him I already gave him the plan and had the lesson printed(must do this 2 days ahead of time). He told me it wasn't his fault chuseok was on Monday. WTF is that? It's not mine either but why should I/we/him/ forget what was planned just because of chuseok? Simply extend the plan to the next meeting time is what I expected or do you/we cancel lesson plans because of holidays?
He told me last Friday that if I needed copies I didn't need to have them done 2 days in advance, all I had to do was see him. I knew at the time that was about the about the stupidest thing I had ever heard so this morning/today I spent much of MY day making copies.
I got 5 co-teachers and if all of them start this Shyte/continue to come up to me at the last minute trying to tell me they want to do something else, I'm going to go F****** NUTS. This S*** ain't happening!
Who the F*** trained him on working with Native Teachers? This is the guy I think I'm suppose to be with during the "observation class." Seems like I will be completely responsible for that, and if he approaches me at the last minute telling me he wants to do something else, I'll tell him to get F*****! Today I told him we'd be working together for that "observation class" while he knew nothing about it even though I had been told about it maybe 10 days ago. That's why I think I'll be totally responsible. I've got experience(teaching in Korea/not public school exp.) and that's probably why they hired me, they know I can do it. I will have to simply start drawing the line. |
That's why it's way better to get into a routine where you just handle it and tell the CT what, if anything, you need help with before class. In fact, in my experience, CTs feel more comfortable just letting the FT take care of everything if they're confident the FT can handle it. Usually the only planning they do for their own lessons is trying to figure out vocab and paragraphs they can't understand, and they'd really rather not sit down for hours making interactive lessons with you. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Stumble is your friend PS teachers. |
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EricaSmile84
Joined: 23 Jan 2008
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I teach 4 classes M-W and 3 classes Th-F. I only have 2 grades so I just make 2 lesson plans which don't require much time because I am required to teach converstation skills from the text book (other Korean English teachers do the reading, writing and grammar parts).
During my prep time I'm on the Internet, chatting with friends back home, studying Korean and plotting to slap my co-worker who is constantly clicking his pen and sucking his teeth. |
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