charisma on command is a truly cringey youtube channel, my dude
Currently sitting in my office where super loud construction has been going on all morning. Why can't we all just work from home???
It's Teachers' Day today. There are no students. But we have an event today at 10am, where all the teachers will get flowers in a ceremony. During these times, this all seems just a bit wonky. I dunno partly it seems a little self-congratulatory, when what I've seen from most teachers this year is just laziness. Just finding videos and posting them for students to watch with no feedback doesn't really smack of something to 'celebrate'. Maybe I'm just being a twatface. I won't be attending, as there are just some ceremonies I couldn't give a shit about, and this is one of them more so this year. Students present? Okay. No students, no thanks!
This is a sore spot at my school. The English Dept is expected to make these amazing Pre-recorded videos for every grade, every week, as well as teach live classes per week. So, us native teachers have been doing that, and the Korean English teachers have just been uploading a couple worksheets, and sitting in on the live class (no teaching, and no making videos). It's hard work. A higher work load than normal classes, and it peeved me our manager was skeptical of our hour sheets we handed in for the month (as we put down a few more than we usually would due to the extra work)
Right. Pile of wannk. And yours is a private elementary where the expectations should be higher. It's just seen to be doing the bare minimum, which is double shit, chips and peas. I met with my old middle school co-teacher friend a couple of weeks ago and he said he'd set some work for the students to give in when they came back. 'Are you gonna check and give them back?' 'What, no, too much work'! And, I know he's a really good teacher in class, but that kind of attitude seems to be very apparent this year. Put the ball in the student's court with the EBS ready-made videos and if they don't watch them then they fall behind. I can't quite wrap my head around that. To me every class is important. You don't get feedback, then the students may as well just watch a film for 50 minutes because they don't need to display that anything has been understood or learnt. All the teachers at my school seem to look younger, go home at 4:30 every day, have 1 or 2 hour coffee breaks for chitchat. Not something to be celebrating the teachers this year.
One would assume the time from May 16th 2019 to the current day includes lots of teaching. Pre Wuhan.
I'm at one of my elementary schools today. It's teacher's day and there are not students here as well.So... a bunch of us stuck on the second floor are buying ourselves chicken and pizza, and we're gonna play uno all afternoon, apparently. Looking forward to it!I brought a tin of pineapple to put on the pizza, just to show my appreciation!
yes, exactly. however, i will say the kids clearly don't give a shit about this, either. i mean, one of my co-workers said he realised have his class were playing minecraft together during his live class. one of my classes collectively decided their webcams suddenly didn't work. oh, and their mics. i was basically talking to myself for the whole class. so i do feel it's a waste of time too, for the most part - especially as i put so much work into making these videos, and half the class doesn't even bother to watch them...it's quite clear that online teaching will never replace real teaching, despite what fruitloops might say!
I brought a tin of pineapple to put on the pizza, just to show my appreciation!
My co-teacher showed me something on her EBS admin site as a home room teacher, which shows that she can see which students are 'cheating' and she dreads looking at it, and to see who is doing it. When a student watches a video, there is a marker for their 'participation', so if there are 5 English classes in a week then she can check that there is a 5/5 participation for that week from that student. But some students turn on and log in with their computer, and a laptop and on their phone and watch three different classes. So they're essentially attending three classes. The system call tell these multiple log ins and 'attendances'. LOL!
this doesn't sound like safe, social distancing to me. police!!!!
Is that why you're posting this in the 'Venting section'. Are you going to open the tin first? Will you strain the juice off before putting the pineapple on? Will you just throw the tin out of the window? By 2pm, will you be unbuckling your belt one notch? Has your eating schedule for the whole day gone?
Man, I check attendance/participation based on who fills out the Google Form I do with every lesson (usually just multiple choice questions), and it's entirely possible to fill it out randomly and quickly, and STILL participation rates are falling. You don't need to sign up for anything, you technically don't even need to watch the video, you just need to click the link and choose a couple answers.
Might just eat less dinner?