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andrew
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 Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:22 am Post subject: Kids at my hagwon get to rate us teachers - problem! |
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guangho
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
Location: a spot full of deception, stupidity, and public micturation and thus unfit for longterm residency
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:27 am Post subject: |
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| Hakwon=mom and dad pay=junior is king. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:58 am Post subject: |
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| That's insane. Kids like the "funniest" teacher. |
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guangho
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:12 am Post subject: |
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| jajdude, surely after all this time you have been disabused of the notion that hakwons are for teaching? Gawd bless me- I think I'll get the public school gig in Ansan. (I think Ansan...not sure exactly of the name at 2 AM.) |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:28 am Post subject: |
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| guangho wrote: |
| ...I'll get the public school gig in Ansan. (I think Ansan...not sure exactly of the name at 2 AM.) |
It probably is the same name for 24 hours a day.
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guangho
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
Location: a spot full of deception, stupidity, and public micturation and thus unfit for longterm residency
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:35 am Post subject: |
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| Having the same name for 24 consecutive hours may be entirely too consistent for the Korean mindset. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 11:59 am Post subject: |
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| guangho wrote: |
| jajdude, surely after all this time you have been disabused of the notion that hakwons are for teaching? Gawd bless me- I think I'll get the public school gig in Ansan. (I think Ansan...not sure exactly of the name at 2 AM.) |
Yes guangho I certainly am disabused of that notion 
"Disabused" ----- nice word....
also....
disaffected, discombobulated, disrespected, disenfranchised and disappointed. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:04 pm Post subject: Re: Kids at my hagwon get to rate us teachers - problem! |
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| andrew wrote: |
I got called into a conference by the assistant director of my hagwon Friday night and was told that a recent evaluation by all my students came up with several saying I was "angry". I asked which class had said this, and I was told it was really only two female students, about 10 years old. However, I was told that kids had said that EVERY teacher in the school was angry, and that he planned on talking to all of us. He asked me to please be "more kind" to the kids. I told him that certain measures of control had to be kept in the classroom (all the Korean and Western teachers feel the same) and that the students in question have repeatedly failed to do their homework and often mimic my speaking voice in class - I've had laryngitis for a month.
Does your school do these kind of evaluations? Seems the kids have too big a say in what happens in the classes anyway.
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If your director has his head this far up his ass the only course of action is to disregard everything he says. At the end of your contract express interest in renewing but then tell him you decided not to because he's too unprofessional and a teacher like you should be working at a better school. |
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Grotto
Joined: 21 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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solutions to your problem:
1. find out when you are being evaluated
hand out candy that day and the day before...all students will love xxxxxxxxx teacher.
2. Tell your students if they dont give you a good evaluation you will give their parents an honest one of their work.
3. Laugh in your directors face and call him BABO YA!!! This is silly beyond belief. |
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bellum99
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: don't need to know
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject: is it Pagoda |
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| I heard Pagoda schools do this.... |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I think the kids actually learn a lot more at hagwons than at public school. Class sizes are much smaller, and the kids study the same subject more often a week. It's too bad that the public schools are so underfunded that haggies are necessary, but at least they're trying to compensate. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| That's an adult hogwon. Apples and oranges. |
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peemil
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Location: Koowoompa
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:02 am Post subject: |
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| Tell em to get stuffed. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:02 am Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| I think the kids actually learn a lot more at hagwons than at public school. Class sizes are much smaller, and the kids study the same subject more often a week. It's too bad that the public schools are so underfunded that haggies are necessary, but at least they're trying to compensate. |
It all depends on the class. In some cases we get an incredible amount of learning done; in others we learn next to nothing. Usually it only takes one kid to turn the tide either way, and the boss will never expell a kid for any reason or even take him out of class for a lesson. If I were a parent I would want to spend a day at the hogwan observing and then decide what class I wanted my kid in. Some of them should be paying a premium and some of them should be getting their money back. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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Andrew teacher, you are angry. They are just children. Innocent. Now what did you do to them to take issue with you? Haha, it's like that movie 'Anger Management' when he's on the plane and asking for headphones to watch the movie. "I'm not angry just give me some $#@&% headphones!".
Honest to god. I had these middleschool girls come in 25 minutes late. I said why. Top secret they said. Well tell the boss, then. Oh no teacher we'll tell you, we lost our wallet and...You're lying! And blablabla. Next day I'm in the doghouse, not cool anymore. Tomorrow it'll be forgotten, back to being biochemically childish as usual.
If it would piss you off I'd say you're angry, Andy |
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