If I come back to Korea I will probably do the IC route because I'm sick of the bs in public schools, not to say there isn't bs in hagwons though!!!
Maybe it's just the people I attract, but I find Korean woman fret over the dumbest crap sometimes. Really, genuinely make mountains out of mole hills. Not just my GFs, but dates, female friends, Co-Ts etc
She's worth it, but damn if it isn't annoying as hell. That said, I am the most relaxed person in the world. haha Anyway, got a meme out of it.
In what country are you living now? Hard to get vaccinated there?
If they were getting other than the AZ vaccine, more people would be willing to take it.A first dose of it gives a 30% protection against the indian variant and 50% against the British variant. The second dose is administered 3 months after the first one. So basically they are very far from being safe for a long time. Yet, as per the new rules revealed today: even after the first dose, they won't be required to wear masks in public and will be also exempt from the ban on private gatherings. This could end really bad.
Yeah, I'm going to try for the Pfizer shot. Three week interval between dosages. Can get it later and be fully vaccinated earlier than people that hurry to get the AZ shot. They're continuing to bungle the rollout. People don't want the AZ shot. Korea is snapping up the doses while other countries move away from it. Yes, the odds are low of having a problem, but I read today the doctors in Ontario have increased the odds of having a problem to one in 60,000 and AZ is less effective. That's a whole host of reasons, if you've managed to avoid getting sick over the last year and a half, to wait for the better vaccines.
My wife and I are all signed up for June 11 for the first shot.
I had a bad class with my top class today. Not that anyone was misbehaving or anything, but most of the students are at a decent level. I have to teach the textbook and came to class with a bunch of the questions about the dialogue ready to go. Broke the questions down by level.And the students struggling with the easiest questions threw me off and got me flustered. D: (Doesn't happen too often) Just makes me feel bad when one of my good classes struggle, as I think I made things too hard haha.
my students couldn't even read the word "I" so my coteacher says oh it's too hard............... ...........4th and 5th graders should understand and be able to read "I"
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if I can learn hangeul over a weekend, then you can learn to read hello/I am/this is/funny over the course of two or three years.
I had one of those days too................ ............after 2nd period I wanted to slam my head on the desk and just nap........my students couldn't even read the word "I" so my coteacher says oh it's too hard............... ...........4th and 5th graders should understand and be able to read "I"
It's partly my fault because frankly, I can't muster up the energy or motivation to teach phonics consistently when the CTs and curriculum are essentially reversing my efforts, I see these students once a week and I have no support base to work with (no communication with parents). I'm trying to get the students to... read. Basic reading as in look at a CVC word and sound it out.After 3yrs of English, many cant read 'cat', 'bet', 'mut', 'dig' etc. So I'm starting the process of squeezing in a phonics lesson whenever I can.It's difficult to not smack my CT over the head with a book. She has 3 teaching licenses (elementary, middle and adult) as well as her masters, yet she still defends her approach of making them write. "Where is the post office?" 20X for homework when they can't even sound at a basic CVC word. My task was to get them to write 20, 3-letter CVC words using the vowels 'A' and 'E' as the middle letter so:CAT, BET, MET, HAT etc.I even wrote some consonants on the board and emphasised that they could be completely random words, they didn't have to mean anything. After that, one by one, they'd come to my desk and read out what they've written. If I'm satisfied, I'd sign their work and task them with helping the other students. One girl actually panicked and broke down into tears because, from what I could tell, she was forced to think for herself and nobody was telling her exactly what to do. So many students struggled with the simple concept of making some random CVC words and while reading its absolutely certain that they were never taught the phonetic sounds of English letters and, by extension, how to actually read. As C02 said and the point I made against my CT who claimed reading CVC words was 'so hard' for them. If someone like me, who absolutely sucks at learning languages is able to read and write Hangul in a weekend then they can learn phonics if you do it properly and give them a bloody chance.So, according to my CT. They're simply taught:The names of the English letters (typically hangulised), not their phonetic soundsSpelling and sighting words without reading How not to hold a pen/pencil (not a single 6th grader in a class of 15 is able to hold a pen properly). No surprise, my CT with all her qualifications can't pronounce the vowels properly and speaks at an English level worse than your average rural, black South African (speaking English as a 3rd language) person with little formal education.
when the students stop being spoon fed everything, every test answer etc and learn to use their heads it will be better........i hate it when a student says a different answer or a unique answer and then immediately says sorry because they think it is wrong.............. I applaud you for trying rather than the right answer so why say sorry?
Was walking home from the supermarket and a group of old guys (about 6 of them) came to join me at the crosswalk, I could smell the soju through my mask. Only two of them were wearing a masks and one of them (no mask) was having a sneezing bout, sneezing all over the place, wiping the mucus off his nose and flicking it on the street. Then they started hocking and I decided to jaywalk before this disgusting thing deposited his phlegm near me. I moved to Jeju from Seoul in 2020. I have never seen this type of behavior down here but I saw it a lot in Seoul. A global pandemic seems to do little to civilise this type. Like small children, it seems they'll only follow rules or etiquette when there's a guaranteed punishment.