Korean Job Discussion Forums

[peemil]

ARGGHH!!!

Too pissed off. Thoughts?

[The Evil Clown]

[matthewwoodford]

No time to teach! Too busy racing through the curriculum!

Well, it's a good way to learn lots of vocabulary at least...

[Zyzyfer]

[captain kirk]

Are they playing games with you?
I've got a class of pre-teens who have been in Side by Side 1 for eight months :lol. I've tried to do three quick pages, because there's only one word they can't handle on each page, if that. Then jump into a one page story and second page question page. I asked, which do you want to do, the book or the sheet now? The book!
Well, holy crud. You want to do the book you seem so miserably bored with. Teacher all alert whether they're bored or not, and primarily wanting to 'be a teacher', is stuck by policy with what you 'like'. Class management, 40 percent of the job, is up to 70 percent in this baby. They go into a kind of 'I'm in a hammock' state, while I chortle along getting them to participate.
Yes, it's like 'force feeding them the language'.
But I'd ask why can't you, personally, force feed them the language? You've got a lot going for you, the stern mother who's paying and urging her kid, behind the scenes, to soak it up. The hagwon manager who knows exactly what's going on and how to deal with it, they've been at it for years. And you've got adulthood over their kidliness.
In these kind of switched off classes, plodding along, the attitude is horrendous sometimes. Boot camp.
Evil Clown, you give me the friggin creeps, man. Get some self respect instead of letting it erode in weird ways.

[nev]

I think you can force feed kids a language.

Just like you can force feed them maths, chemistry, history etc.

Some may never learn, most do alright, and some are a joy to behold. But I'd be amazed if my students were eagerly lapping up each new lesson. Of course you have to shove it down their throats.

One thing is for sure, however. A student never learns from a monkey. A student learns from a teacher.

[casey's moon]

You can forcefeed them, I guess, but it isn't really learning. It's memorising what they need to memorise for a test... that goes for all subjects.

[ratslash]

as somebody said, games and games. keep them happy, school doesn't lose students, your boss is happy.

try little things like wordsearches (a great time filler!) and not a waste of time coz while it is fun for the kids, they are unknowingly learning vocab!
www.puzzlemaker.com

that's all i can think of right now to make it easier for you. you are right, though, you can't force feed. if somebody doesn't want to learn then it is very difficult to force them. you could see it is a challenge, a challenge to yourself to get the kids interested. if the teacher is not enthusiastic then the students won't be. hell, can you tell i've just started a teach training course!!!

[whatthefunk]

it has been proven that three teaspoons of english shoved down a childs throat twice a day, preferably in the morning and before bed, will increase there instability and provide several headaches for english teachers.

[Zed]

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