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Illysook
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 Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:46 pm Post subject: Give some advice to the teacher to follow you! |
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I teach high school and I'm leaving in 5 weeks. For the next teacher; Here are a few words of advice:
Keep extra pencils handy for students who are usually too lazy to bring their pencil cases to class.
Avoid having those pencils stolen by using a permanent marker and writing "ENGLISH ZONE: DO NOT STEAL" on every last one of them. Some will still be stolen, but the rest will be treated rather badly so that no one will want to steal them. Then don't touch the things after the students have used them or you will surely become deathly ill.
Using a magic eraser type sponge to remove student artwork from your tabletops every so often is a good idea.
Wash your hands immediately after you do this.
Don't pick anything up off of the floor. That's why students clean the classrooms after school.
And that cupboard that you find full of shopping bags, newspapers, magazines, glue, tape, and scissors? I created that so that you would have some craft supplies. You will need them because you can't be a complete game monkey and the school won't provide diddly...anything more difficult is likely to draw complaints from unmotivated teachers.
Have fun![/list] |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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Get a UBS and learn how to use it. These help you transfer powerpoints and powerpoint games from your computer to the English Zone computer.
Bookmark some good Karaoke style video's from Youtube. Students love these things and they're great for the last 5 minutes of class
Currently I'm using Lemon tree and My Love by Westlife. You can also show the actual video first followed by the Karaoke video. |
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sadguy
Joined: 13 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:25 pm Post subject: Re: Give some advice to the teacher to follow you! |
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| Illysook wrote: |
I teach high school and I'm leaving in 5 weeks. For the next teacher; Here are a few words of advice:
Keep extra pencils handy for students who are usually too lazy to bring their pencil cases to class.
Avoid having those pencils stolen by using a permanent marker and writing "ENGLISH ZONE: DO NOT STEAL" on every last one of them. Some will still be stolen, but the rest will be treated rather badly so that no one will want to steal them. Then don't touch the things after the students have used them or you will surely become deathly ill.
Using a magic eraser type sponge to remove student artwork from your tabletops every so often is a good idea.
Wash your hands immediately after you do this.
Don't pick anything up off of the floor. That's why students clean the classrooms after school.
And that cupboard that you find full of shopping bags, newspapers, magazines, glue, tape, and scissors? I created that so that you would have some craft supplies. You will need them because you can't be a complete game monkey and the school won't provide diddly...anything more difficult is likely to draw complaints from unmotivated teachers.
Have fun![/list] |
i had students who didn't come prepared so i started using a stamp system that rewarded them if they brought all their materials to class. it's no longer a problem, but apparently many of the teachers on dave's think giving stamps to solve the problem is rewarding mediocrity, and that if they forget their materials, they are laughing at you as a teacher.
do i sound bitter?
an easier way for transferring files from computer to computer is using dropbox.com, much more convenient than using a usb. dropbox automatically syncs both computers with the files and it's free (up to 2gigs.) if u want 250mb extra space, pm me. |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 1:04 am Post subject: |
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If my school has any kind of reward system, they've never informed me of it, so for a long time I had the kids use crayons that were left by the previous teachers. They destroyed the crayons, so I switched to whatever was in the supply cabinet.
The day that I found boxes of yellow pencils complete with erasers, I took a permanent marker to them to prevent theft. Most of them are missing their erasers and some of them have been chewed on at this point. However, the shabbiness of the pencils provided is incentive for kids to bring their own. |
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