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Captain Marlow
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 Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:09 am Post subject: Create a "Fun" class? |
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| My boss has asked me to create a fun class for intermediate level middle school students... Last semester I created a movie class and a field trip class... This semester, I have no good ideas... Any suggestions? |
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Join Me
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:46 am Post subject: |
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Yeh...how about having your boss come in for 20 questions. Seeing that he is the typical hawgwan owner who makes stupid suggestions like, "make a fun class," he should have some amazingly stupid (and entertaining) responses to student questions.
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crescent
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:58 am Post subject: |
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scavenger hunt.
show and tell. |
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maingman
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:21 am Post subject: . |
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Kurtz
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| how about a cooking class? |
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Easter Clark
Joined: 18 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| How about a class where a trained monkey gets up and dances for an hour and a half? |
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buymybook
Joined: 21 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Easter Clark wrote: |
| How about a class where a trained monkey gets up and dances for an hour and a half? |
How about a "Social Club" or better yet "Pub nite" when you go out and drink with your students because YOUR CEO likes that as long as you spend your own money?
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Ramen
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Sex education in English works well. |
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Seoul'n'Corea
Joined: 06 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Ramen wrote: |
| Sex education in English works well. |
hey, knock it off. Those NEOCON hogwan owners are expecting something like that.
don't give them what they want. 
They need to make stuff up for the boring one sided SBS and bash foreigner night on TV.
come on now. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't think it's unreasonable for your boss to expect you to at least try to make your classes more entertaining engaging. |
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maingman
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 7:02 pm Post subject: , |
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Easter Clark wrote :
How about a class where a trained monkey gets up and dances for an hour and a half?
 or probably in my situation, Mr Kims dancing monkey/ English Teacher |
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jkelly80
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Fishead soup wrote: |
| I don't think it's unreasonable for your boss to expect you to at least try to make your classes more entertaining engaging. |
I think some ideas from Mr. Choe/Kim/Lee/Pak would be warranted. Unless of course, we're all certified teachers here, which the Koreans neither want or are willing to pay for. |
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Captain Marlow
Joined: 23 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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funny....
the scavenger hunt sounds good, but i don't know how i could make an entire class out of it... it's an extra class for students, and will only meet once a week for 70 minutes, and will on meet for 10 weeks... the students already take writing, listening, reading, speaking and grammar classes, so this fun class is supposed to cover all of those.
i understand the sarcasm, and believe me, it's the last thing that i want to do (one week before i leave for a month in s.e. asia). i can also understand where my boss is coming from; it's an extra class outside of the normal curriculum, and students don't have to sign up for it... the school is a business, so they want as many students signed up as possible... to get the students to want to sign up, the class should come off as a fun class, but should be in reality a class to cover all the skills taught during normal classes...
i thought that someone else on dave's had probably been asked to do the same and would have some useful suggestions... so far it's only been a cooking class & a scavenger hunt class... thanx teachers  |
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maingman
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject: , |
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or... how about feckin scrabble, which my co teacher suggested - this is I add for lower ability elementary 
the same co teacher who just shouts at the kids in korean! |
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Join Me
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Marlow wrote: |
funny....
the scavenger hunt sounds good, but i don't know how i could make an entire class out of it... it's an extra class for students, and will only meet once a week for 70 minutes, and will on meet for 10 weeks... the students already take writing, listening, reading, speaking and grammar classes, so this fun class is supposed to cover all of those.
i understand the sarcasm, and believe me, it's the last thing that i want to do (one week before i leave for a month in s.e. asia). i can also understand where my boss is coming from; it's an extra class outside of the normal curriculum, and students don't have to sign up for it... the school is a business, so they want as many students signed up as possible... to get the students to want to sign up, the class should come off as a fun class, but should be in reality a class to cover all the skills taught during normal classes...
i thought that someone else on dave's had probably been asked to do the same and would have some useful suggestions... so far it's only been a cooking class & a scavenger hunt class... thanx teachers |
Maybe you are getting these responses because many of us have been in Korea long enough to learn a thing of two. Fun...yeh...all the parents and hawgwon owners claim this is what they want. Trust me though. At the end of the day the parents evaluate you and your school on one thing and that is if their kids can speak a lick of English. You are right that this is a business. It is also a very competitive one and anyone who wants to succeed better keep their eye on the target which is teaching kids to speak English. Once you make fun the target of your class you are going down a long road where each class is expected to be "funner" than the last. In the end, the kids get bored out of their minds with your "fun" and you fail at teaching them to speak English because you became obsessed with providing entertainment..."fun."
The truth is kids want to be challenged. Don't listen to the jackass parents and know nothing hawgwon owners who think all it takes to run a successful business is fun...they don't know squat.
Tell your boss it is going to be "fun" to keep him at bay and then put together a class that leaves your students feeling like they actually accomplished something with their time instead of a feeling they are just at another hawgwon to be entertained for a few hours. |
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