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MollyBloom
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 Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject: UPDATE: my school is a "Model English School" |
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So it was just announced that my elem. school is a "model English school."
What exactly does this mean?
If I had to guess, I'd say that the level of the students here is high enough to be seen as something to reach for. The thing is, yes, the students are pretty good at English, but still only a few kids in each class are really fluent enough to hold a conversation with me.
What should I expect to see change? More open classes and visitors? A bigger English library being built? More upper admin. involvement?
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ttompatz
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Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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We just got done with 3 years of that.
Extra foolishness on the part of your co-T, extra paperwork (lesson plans must conform to some specific format), a couple extra open classes (we did about 6 each year), and some strange ideas as the "flavor of the month" teaching methods change.
Other than that, business as usual.
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hari seldon
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:53 pm Post subject: Re: my school is a "Model English School" (element |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
So it was just announced that my elem. school is a "model English school."
What exactly does this mean?
If I had to guess, I'd say that the level of the students here is high enough to be seen as something to reach for. The thing is, yes, the students are pretty good at English, but still only a few kids in each class are really fluent enough to hold a conversation with me.
What should I expect to see change? More open classes and visitors? A bigger English library being built? More upper admin. involvement? |
Did Marilyn enjoy Ulysses? |
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Ruraljuror
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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Congrats to Molly Bloom!
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KYC
Joined: 11 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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So is my school. Tom is right on the money. My school just finished remodeling the English classrooms into an entire English Village. It looks.....nice but none of the "equipments" are really usable (talking monitors, talking posters, etc). I'm supposed to teach using those thigns...why? All I'll be doing is repeating what the monitor/poster says...so stupid.
It means other schools in the district will follow your school's footsteps (English classrooms and how it's designed, English classes and how it's taught, English program and how it's being implemented, etc etc). I just find it hilarious that i'm the first NT here and we're the model school.
It's very...overwhelming for me because they have too many expectations. They want me to do too many things that I feel are not really part of my contract. ahhhh this sucks.
Oh and btw, my school has over 1000 students and almost none can hold a conversation with me beyond the typical 'how are you' 'what's your name' 'how old are you' crap. Amazing... |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:06 pm Post subject: Re: my school is a "Model English School" (element |
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| hari seldon wrote: |
| MollyBloom wrote: |
So it was just announced that my elem. school is a "model English school."
What exactly does this mean?
If I had to guess, I'd say that the level of the students here is high enough to be seen as something to reach for. The thing is, yes, the students are pretty good at English, but still only a few kids in each class are really fluent enough to hold a conversation with me.
What should I expect to see change? More open classes and visitors? A bigger English library being built? More upper admin. involvement? |
Did Marilyn enjoy Ulysses? |
Enjoy, no.
Understand, maybe. Although in the pic it looks like she's at the end of the book, which is very difficult at times. I doubt she understood anything of the Ithaca chapter. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:16 am Post subject: |
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| KYC wrote: |
Oh and btw, my school has over 1000 students and almost none can hold a conversation with me beyond the typical 'how are you' 'what's your name' 'how old are you' crap. Amazing... |
You've talked to over 1000 students in depth in less than a month?  |
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KYC
Joined: 11 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| Draz wrote: |
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Oh and btw, my school has over 1000 students and almost none can hold a conversation with me beyond the typical 'how are you' 'what's your name' 'how old are you' crap. Amazing... |
You've talked to over 1000 students in depth in less than a month? |
In depth? Is that even necessary? The questions I asked were "what did you do during your vacation" "How was your summer vacation" "Do you have any siblings?" "Who's your favorite actor" etc.. etc....
I talk to the kids a lot outside of class and during my walk to and from school. |
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MollyBloom
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:14 am Post subject: |
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UPDATE:
So today we had a meeting and our teaching format for next year is being changed because we are now a Model English School. The other foreign teacher and I will not be teaching supplementary English classes for grades 1-6, but only the National Curriculum.
We will not have "co-teachers," but instead the homeroom teachers will co-teach with us. The head teacher for each grade will work together with the NSET's to make the lesson plans, which will then be taught by the homeroom teachers and the NSET's.
Instead of having one co-teacher, I will now have 16 (5, third grade homeroom teachers, 5 fourth grade homeroom teachers, and 6, sixth grade homeroom teachers). Naturally, the Korean teachers are pissed about this because they have to actually teach in English and participate in the classes.
Has anyone's school been changed to this format, and if so, how did it go?
Oh, and the Korean teachers will have to do more monthly open classes in English, which they can hardly speak. |
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esetters21
Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:32 am Post subject: |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
UPDATE:
So today we had a meeting and our teaching format for next year is being changed because we are now a Model English School. The other foreign teacher and I will not be teaching supplementary English classes for grades 1-6, but only the National Curriculum.
We will not have "co-teachers," but instead the homeroom teachers will co-teach with us. The head teacher for each grade will work together with the NSET's to make the lesson plans, which will then be taught by the homeroom teachers and the NSET's.
Instead of having one co-teacher, I will now have 16 (5, third grade homeroom teachers, 5 fourth grade homeroom teachers, and 6, sixth grade homeroom teachers). Naturally, the Korean teachers are pissed about this because they have to actually teach in English and participate in the classes.
Has anyone's school been changed to this format, and if so, how did it go?
Oh, and the Korean teachers will have to do more monthly open classes in English, which they can hardly speak. |
I feel you on the amount of students that you have to teach. I teach each and every class in my middle school (40 classes equaling 1100 students). I am the first NSET at my school, so I have no expectations to live up to other than my own (which are pretty high).
I can only assume the level of English that most hr teachers have is low. Good luck working your way through that situation. I am sure that you have the capabilities to conquer the task at hand. Keep us updated. |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
UPDATE:
So today we had a meeting and our teaching format for next year is being changed because we are now a Model English School. The other foreign teacher and I will not be teaching supplementary English classes for grades 1-6, but only the National Curriculum.
We will not have "co-teachers," but instead the homeroom teachers will co-teach with us. The head teacher for each grade will work together with the NSET's to make the lesson plans, which will then be taught by the homeroom teachers and the NSET's.
Instead of having one co-teacher, I will now have 16 (5, third grade homeroom teachers, 5 fourth grade homeroom teachers, and 6, sixth grade homeroom teachers). Naturally, the Korean teachers are pissed about this because they have to actually teach in English and participate in the classes.
Has anyone's school been changed to this format, and if so, how did it go?
Oh, and the Korean teachers will have to do more monthly open classes in English, which they can hardly speak. |
I feel you on the amount of students that you have to teach. I teach each and every class in my middle school (40 classes equaling 1100 students). I am the first NSET at my school, so I have no expectations to live up to other than my own (which are pretty high).
I can only assume the level of English that most hr teachers have is low. Good luck working your way through that situation. I am sure that you have the capabilities to conquer the task at hand. Keep us updated. |
Thanks! You are really positive! |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:21 am Post subject: |
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| Doesn't 'model' mean a small imitation of the real thing? |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:34 am Post subject: |
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| Sleepy in Seoul wrote: |
| Doesn't 'model' mean a small imitation of the real thing? |
The question is: what is the "real" thing??? |
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Bread
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| Sleepy in Seoul wrote: |
| Doesn't 'model' mean a small imitation of the real thing? |
exemplar: something to be imitated; "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general" |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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The ironic thing is my school is the complete opposite of a model school; their aim is to turn our school into just that.
I wonder how the dept. of Ed chooses the schools...at random? Number of students? Location? Certainly not by English fluency. |
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