Students would stay in their homerooms, and subject teachers would go to them.
Isn't this pretty much normal for most subject, except for maybe PE, art, and music, and occasionally science?
You've never had your own English room? I'm wondering how this is going to work at my new school. I have my own room, and as far as I can tell, the students typically move between classes, for all subjects. My new co-teacher described it as a 'university style' system. If I have to lug all my materials between classes I'm going to be so pissed at China.
I have been the roving English teacher before, so I appreciate having the room, but I guess I'll go back to my old ways now.
I don't know how this will be possible at my new school, because, as far as I know, the teachers pretty much stay in their classrooms and don't have communal offices with workstations to retreat to between classes. I wonder how strictly the governmental guidelines will be enforced.
Some of the suggestions for social distancing at my middle school are absolutely ridiculous. I give it till next friday before they are slung out. Either come back to school, or don't. 20 mins of A/B classes. No turning around in class. No groups in or out of class. Break times in class observed by teachers. Temp checks 4 times per day. Lunch divided between classes spread through the day (Including first lunch at 9:30am - Think how starving those poor guys are gonna be who get the late shift) Numerous others... What a mess. But gotta look like we are doing something! Right?
Anyways traditionally in Korea subject teachers go to the classrooms.
Really? My experience at four different elementary schools and one middle school in Gyeonggi has been that students move to the subject teacher's classroom. Other than the odd scheduling issue I've rarely got to the students' homerooms. I also can't think of any school that I visited back when open classes were a thing that didn't have a dedicated English class. Some were rundown and some were budget blowing English wings, but there was always an English class. And, science obviously doesn't go to the homerooms. They only thing I can think of is where some schools didn't have a gym and in inclement weather the P.E. teacher went to class to class. And the poor teacher saddled with the ethics class moves around. That would suck to be at a school where you had to lug around a laptop class to class but I think that's pretty unusual.
I wonder if the recent outbreak will have any bearing on schools reopening. Seems like the gov't is too embarrassed to change their mind lol.
Yes, traditionally in middle, and high, schools teachers will go to the student's homerooms. And mostly the still do. As do I, if the school doesn't have a English lab in use. There are exceptions when they have maybe a science laboratory, or an art room, and sometimes an English 'lab', or for music, and PE. But even for science, art, and music, often classes are in the homerooms.But elementary schools are different, traditionally the homeroom teacher will teach virtually all the subjects. That's why NETs often encounter teachers that don't know a thing about English in elementary schools.
I believe Bucheon has shut down all of their schools. Except for the high school 3rd graders.Probably makes sense at least just letting the high school seniors continue going to school, since so much importance is attached to the suneung exam.
In my experiences and in the cities I've taught in in Gyeonggi your situation would be the exception. My middle school was the first one in Gunpo still around and they had loads of different rooms for the kids to head off to. Never heard of an elementary where the English teacher moves around but obviously you do. Are you out in the sticks? Traditionally people went and sh*t in their fields for fertilizer so traditionally what they did doesn't mean too much. Again, I've heard of very few English (zero) teachers in this neck of the woods that move from class to class. I can't imagine the hassle.