I hate my new main 6th grade CT. She controls my classes and seems to be actively blocking me from interreacting with students that I've been teaching since they were little. There are days that I just want to tell her to stfu because she's constantly teaching incorrect grammar and pronunciation. I die a little more inside every class I have with her and can't wait to leave this school in three months. I'll miss my students, but I can't teach them with her being an anal retentive freak. I'm shooting for homeroom positions after this because I'm done teaching with CTs for good after dealing with her.Students have been asking me why I don't teach anymore, that classes are boring now, and keep giving me sad looks when I go straight to the back of the classroom to sit down. She edits all my PPTs of diversity and replaces them with blond hair, blue eyed people. She takes out information and replaces it with stereotypes that even the children point out are wrong (because I taught them better). I know that I only have a few months left and shouldn't care, but I'm seriously worried about what she'll undo (she teaches 3rd and 4th sometimes as well) once I'm gone (the homeroom teachers, principal, and other CTs are always telling me how much the students have improved since I got here). Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
I typically spend around 1.5 hours at the gym: 30 minutes doing cardio (usually jogging on the treadmill), and then an hour on weights. There was an ahjeosshi using the leg extension machine when I walked into the weight room. He was still using it when I left. Over an hour. On one ****** machine. He would get on, do like 4-5 reps on it, get off to do this weird jogging stretch for about 30 seconds to a minute, then get back on to do the same thing over again. He had the machine on the lowest weight possible, too, and he made sure to guard the machine against anyone who dared to get too close to it whenever he was doing his weird stretch thing. I don't use the machine, but I was still irritated for everyone else in the gym. No idea what he thought he was accomplishing.
My gym has a fair number of fit people who have taken personal training and seem to know what they're doing. But you still get a lot of the older folk who don't work out efficiently and the trainers never correct or advise them. Probably an age thing. I see a few of the old guys who think more is better and load up the weight and then do quick pumps with a fifth of the range of motion. Seems to very popular on the shoulder press and incline bench machines. They can't do a full range movement with the weight they have put on so just quickly a do a bunch of convulsive tiny moves. The leg machines seem to be popular with the people that are really only there to get out of the house.
This is a new low, even for Waygook. We now have long time users who never contribute any lesson materials, asking other users to post Google Drive links so they can download for free without paying the subscription fee. That Craigslist thread might be more useful than we thought for the penny pinchers!
I think you'll find most long time users will look at the time waygook.org went from being a completely free site to throwing up a pay wall around lesson plans unannounced as the all time low. Perhaps you weren't around for that debacle.
Even lower than that, was inserting a bit of code that changes the url of other sharing sites to spammy.org
i think you're misunderstanding "being cheap" with "not paying for something out of principle". how the paywall was put up and blocking the website k0rshare from being typed so it redirects to "spam" or whatever is absolutely ****** lame
I really just want to give up everything and move to Italy! Has anyone ever heard of anyone making it as an ESL teacher in Italy?
I just got my application for renewal yesterday, and in the "Current EPIK Level" I wrote in "1+" because that's what I've been at for the last 8 years or whatever. No problem.In the "Desired EPIK Level" I wrote "1++++", and the administration sent my application back to my head teacher who then handed it back to me. There was a big sticky note attached with what I'm sure is the equivalent of "This is not a joking matter, please take this seriously, this is official government paperwork, what the hell is wrong with you, etc etc" scribbled over it in angry looking hangeul cursive. They seriously need to lighten up. Anyway, the head English teacher snickered, though, so I guess 1 out of 2 isn't bad.