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Toju
Joined: 06 Mar 2008
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 Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:19 am Post subject: Long-nose - Evaluation, Korean - None |
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Just seen this elsewhere and was curious is anyone else was in a similar predicament regarding EPIK contracts and evaluations. I am in the process of it myself and find myself in a relatively similar situation to below - as in there is a huge inbalance between how the Korean teachers are assessed and how we are being assessed. Not as bad as this, but still not too pretty.
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I'm tellin' u this system is flicked.
10 likert questions.
3 written questions.
Likert questions have a rating of 1-6, with 6 being the highest.
250 students or thereabouts. 8 classes. 32 in each class give or take a couple.
6 classes I see 3 times a week and have therefore seen about 100 times this year each. Very very few bad marks from those classes. The other 2 classes I have taught about 21 times for the year. I get more bad comments from those two classes than the rest of the classes put together.
Each student is listed, anonymously, but by class. The figures then show how many times they answered which band on the likert scale, but it doesn't show exactly which question they replied to.
Through this it is easy to see straight away which students have issues with you and which ones have I have evidently upset - e.g. band 1 was marked 9 times by certain students - I could probably tell you exactly which students they were too.
The written questions were summarized and listed by category and also the frequency that the same problem arose. However, they are just collated and not actually linked to the likert questions by which I mean that if a student does have a particular dislike, then there is nothing stopping them from being as insulting as they like but you don't know from the results we have been given whether or not the same people who gave you the low score on the likert scale are the same ones who said that you had flaws in other areas. The other thing about the written answers is that, if taken out of context, really have no meaning at all, especially if there have been no complaints about anything from anyone through the course of the year with regards to your teaching style and methodology.
Also, three native speakers.
One teaches the third grade, 6 classes in all - once a week each, who have now left, plus 2 classes on the second grade and two on the third grade. He sees these four classes three or four times a week. he has only been evaluated by these four classes. The third grade have given no evaluation.
The other teaches the first grade, 8 classes twice times a week and two (the same two who fucked me) classes in the second grade three times a week. However, in the school's infinite wisdom, this teacher was not evluated by the second grade classes but only by the first grade.
Inbalance of numbers and evluations.
We are provided no curricula for any of our classes - this is something that was in the likert questions as to whether or not the material was appropriate. I have a book for my six regular classes but nothing for the other two classes, so comments about lack of appropriate material may well have come fomr them, but the way that the results were given does not reflect this yet stil is flagged as a negative point.
We now have to wait until Monday when the prinicpal returns. These evaluations will be the basis of whether or not we are re-signed for next year, regardless of everything else we have done for the school.
And the best part? The Korean teachers get absolutely NONE of this because, however bad they are, they are guaranteed thier jobs until their five years in this school are up. |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:34 am Post subject: |
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As long as you know you are not bad teacher,
take it like a manager of a losing team.
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calicoe
Joined: 23 Dec 2008
Location: South Korea
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I feel your pain, OP. This is precisely what has happened to me. Brush up your resume and start sending it out. Despite what appears to be a brutal job market, there are stil good jobs out there.
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