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[Lukychrm42]

So that's basically what I was told to do after a demo last week.

I was told to write both the question AND the answer on the board BEFORE asking my questions. Because how else would they be able to answer?

I'm happy to write more, but the conference definitely shattered any remaining illusions I had about being a teacher... Of course, they want me to learn Korean (which I'm doing- my teacher accused me of lying about never having studied it before), but not for my sake and to communicate with them, but to use to teach English. I'm feeling less empowered to teach as a native speaker and more like a selling point for enrollment.

I asked about the Korean language, and was told that it had a much larger vocabulary than English, because in English we use the same words for colors (blue, navy blue), and that in English there weren't words for sounds like in Korean. Yeah. I'm trying to teach rather than debate- after all, the woman told me that only Koreans like garlic, but she's my superior and Korean teacher.

And then she told me this afternoon that I had to attend an all-day workshop out of town tomorrow. Gee thanks?

Sorry, it's been a bad day. Please share in my venting if you feel like it!

And advice on dumbing it down while still teaching those few who are motivated?
Thanks.

[yingwenlaoshi]

Next they'll tell you to hurry up and speed through book. They're a bunch of fktards.

I hope to hell you don't go to that workshop tomorrow. That would be foolish.

As far as advice goes? I ask either one student or the whole class the answer and write it on the board as they answer. If they're slow, I'm patient and get them to think for themselves what each of the following words of the sentence is going to be. That's of course having already taught them the material and having practiced it. Maybe at first they can practice sentences that are written out for them, but they of course need to be explained. Then they gradually move on to having to think for themselves more and more until finally they can do the homeword portion on their own.

It's all pretty obvious. I dunno. When you move gradually like that it's the best dumbing down that you can do as far as them grasping the language goes.

[Tobias]