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iggyb
Joined: 29 Oct 2003
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 Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:53 am Post subject: Human Tape Recorder - Ideas |
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I would not fight being used as nothing more than a human tape recorder in Korean schools.
Talking it over and gentle persuasion are fine, but "fighting" to actually be a teacher is likely to gain little and will create bad blood not only with co-teachers but pretty much the whole school (including some students and parents).
What I recommend is -- if you are interested in teaching for some years -- use the opportunity to build up material you'll take with you when you leave Korean public schools...
Examine the classes and textbook and how students work. Think of things you think you should be doing in class, and create material for it. Save your activities and materials on your computer and any hard material you think will be worth packing up and carrying with you to a different gig.
That is what keeps me interested in my current position.
I'm an ESL teacher. I like the job, and I'll be going back to the US to do it as soon as I find a position or at the end of my current Korean contract.
In the US, I don't get much time during a school year to prepare a lot of material for classes. I get worn out with the teaching load and other duties.
Here in Korea, due to how they want to use (and not use) NSETs, and due to the light teaching load, I have time to build up material like I have long wanted.
Another benefit of this is --- when the co-teachers do allow you some control of the class, you will have material ready at hand.
You might also gain more opportunities to lead the class if they see that you are serious about teaching.
I'm not terribly happy teaching the way they want to use me, but I am happy with the material I'm creating - whether I get to use it in class or not....
And it will make me even happier sometime in the future when I have my own class again and have all this stuff as a foundation.... |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Have the Korean teacher use the first 20 minutes to cover material from the text. Then after 20 minutes I take over. I usually use either Interchange or Tell Me More" Andrew Finch. For the Tell Me More activities I get the students to do surveys using Do You Like____? or Have you ever_____? In groups. For the Interchange activities I do choral repetition once and then they go straight into pairwork. |
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Ramen
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:02 pm Post subject: Re: Human Tape Recorder - Ideas |
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| iggyb wrote: |
I would not fight being used as nothing more than a human tape recorder in Korean schools.
Talking it over and gentle persuasion are fine, but "fighting" to actually be a teacher is likely to gain little and will create bad blood not only with co-teachers but pretty much the whole school (including some students and parents).
What I recommend is -- if you are interested in teaching for some years -- use the opportunity to build up material you'll take with you when you leave Korean public schools...
Examine the classes and textbook and how students work. Think of things you think you should be doing in class, and create material for it. Save your activities and materials on your computer and any hard material you think will be worth packing up and carrying with you to a different gig.
That is what keeps me interested in my current position.
I'm an ESL teacher. I like the job, and I'll be going back to the US to do it as soon as I find a position or at the end of my current Korean contract.
In the US, I don't get much time during a school year to prepare a lot of material for classes. I get worn out with the teaching load and other duties.
Here in Korea, due to how they want to use (and not use) NSETs, and due to the light teaching load, I have time to build up material like I have long wanted.
Another benefit of this is --- when the co-teachers do allow you some control of the class, you will have material ready at hand.
You might also gain more opportunities to lead the class if they see that you are serious about teaching.
I'm not terribly happy teaching the way they want to use me, but I am happy with the material I'm creating - whether I get to use it in class or not....
And it will make me even happier sometime in the future when I have my own class again and have all this stuff as a foundation.... |
pat, pat,...(patting your back). Good for you.
That's what you want to hear, right?  |
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iggyb
Joined: 29 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Have the Korean teacher use the first 20 minutes to cover material from the text. |
One co-teacher gives me 20 mintues - 5 for intro and then 15 later - but she must OK what I do in class and she blocks material not connected to the limited vocabulary and sentence patterns in the book. She also will not allow getting the students to begin simple writing.
My primary co-teacher gives me 5-10 minutes to start the class and I can do pretty much anything, so I've been concentrating on using the most common verbs and tenses the students can use in everyday conversations right away.
Since I started last week trying to do some CLT activities later in the class, she's started putting the room divider down seperating us from each other's view...
[Ramen - is your life really so negative that you feel compelled to spend time pissing on other people to make you feel better about yourself?] |
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Ramen
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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nah, i want to praise your good work. i'm also bored.
all classes cancelled today because students have science day activities. |
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iggyb
Joined: 29 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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OK. And lucky you...
Being bored to death due to human tape recorder syndrome, I've been trying to get a copy of the school schedule to see when the next vacation will be.... |
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