It's very likely a lot of those bloggers wouldn't for the life of them know how to get back to the place they had stumbled upon.
Quote from: yirgacheffe on October 12, 2016, 02:24:32 pmQuote from: chupacaubrey on October 12, 2016, 01:43:05 pmAnybody have students who stare at them in a way that transcends the "you're a foreigner" gaze? I'm talking mouth open, blank expression, kind of like you just gave birth to a golden retriever? I can let a lot roll off my back but this look just unsettles me to my core.This is making me think of those cringe-worthy moments when the students are either particularly unresponsive or unruly and then you have those two or three students, usually girls, who try even harder to be on their best behavior to make up for everyone else and you can tell they kind of feel sorry for you and you're simultaneously mortified and mentally panicking. This happens to me at least twice a semester. There are bad days and then there are those kinds of days. Does this happen to anyone else? Where the good students feel bad for you on the days when you lose control? Had one of 'those' days yesterday. My co-teacher couldn't make it to school (don't know why) and the home room teachers wouldn't stay in the class with me, so I was flying solo the entire day. My final class of the day, saw there was no co / homeroom teacher, so just went nuts. This one girl, tried really hard to help me get them to quiten down and listen, to do their work etc. She was like the only quiet student / only person doing work the entire lesson. She came to me and apologized for the class near the end too. Next week, a bulk of the class is going to be in trouble with the coTeacher when she gets back. She freaks even me out when she gets mad too; She's small, cute, and quiet, but super scary when angry / mad haha. I'm hoping I can be out of the room when she gets mad at them, as I get pretty uncomfortable during those rare times that students get disciplined here.
Quote from: chupacaubrey on October 12, 2016, 01:43:05 pmAnybody have students who stare at them in a way that transcends the "you're a foreigner" gaze? I'm talking mouth open, blank expression, kind of like you just gave birth to a golden retriever? I can let a lot roll off my back but this look just unsettles me to my core.This is making me think of those cringe-worthy moments when the students are either particularly unresponsive or unruly and then you have those two or three students, usually girls, who try even harder to be on their best behavior to make up for everyone else and you can tell they kind of feel sorry for you and you're simultaneously mortified and mentally panicking. This happens to me at least twice a semester. There are bad days and then there are those kinds of days. Does this happen to anyone else? Where the good students feel bad for you on the days when you lose control?
Anybody have students who stare at them in a way that transcends the "you're a foreigner" gaze? I'm talking mouth open, blank expression, kind of like you just gave birth to a golden retriever? I can let a lot roll off my back but this look just unsettles me to my core.
It sounds like you did some irreparable damage, if she doesn't want you to be in the classroom while she is teaching.What had you done before when she was leading?What did she do when you were leading?Would you care to explain how things got so out of hand?If you are SMOE, you might consider signing-up for the training course for foreigners and their coteachers next week.
i'm probably a bit late to the party, never having co-taught before in Korea before, but some of these teachers must love teaming up with you guys when all they need to do is translate a few words and then just sit back :S
i never understood the need to have two teachers in the same classroom
Quote from: oglop on October 12, 2016, 09:21:21 pmi never understood the need to have two teachers in the same classroomNot to put anybody down, but consider this from the parent's perspective.NETs do not usually have training as teachers, so there is only one teacher in the classroom.
I mean, again, being a teacher here isn't really where I harvest my self-worth so it's fine. But why am I even wasting my voice? Why can't we just sit in relative silence, and follow the wisdom of "let's not and say we did?"
Quote from: JNM on October 13, 2016, 06:30:31 amQuote from: oglop on October 12, 2016, 09:21:21 pmi never understood the need to have two teachers in the same classroomNot to put anybody down, but consider this from the parent's perspective.NETs do not usually have training as teachers, so there is only one teacher in the classroom.Right. There always needs to be a (certified) teacher in the classroom for legal/liability issues. I imagine it would also prevent schools from taking unfair advantage in the hiring of temporary workers over permanent employees.And just think of all the AIDS being spread if foreigners were allowed to be unsupervised with children.
Quote from: donovan on October 13, 2016, 06:43:42 amQuote from: JNM on October 13, 2016, 06:30:31 amQuote from: oglop on October 12, 2016, 09:21:21 pmi never understood the need to have two teachers in the same classroomNot to put anybody down, but consider this from the parent's perspective.NETs do not usually have training as teachers, so there is only one teacher in the classroom.Right. There always needs to be a (certified) teacher in the classroom for legal/liability issues. I imagine it would also prevent schools from taking unfair advantage in the hiring of temporary workers over permanent employees.And just think of all the AIDS being spread if foreigners were allowed to be unsupervised with children.Why, oh why. Why did you have to take it there?
Quote from: oglop on October 12, 2016, 09:21:21 pmi never understood the need to have two teachers in the same classroomI kinda see it as more if an assiastant type thing. Idk about the US but in the U.K. It's common in primary school to have a teaching assistant (the school I worked at in the uk had pm one assistant per class for lower years and then one or two assistants per unit in upper juniors). One teacher can't meet the needs of 30 kids and at early years it's important to meet their needs as much as possible. English is a subject with huge disparity in levels, one foreign teacher is not going to be able to meet the needs of 30 kids who range from barely knowing the alphabet to being able to have conversations, considering we teach 100% in English and often don't have enough Korean to explain stuff to the lower level students. In my classes I view my Korean teacher as a teaching assistant type role, there to help lower level students.The problem with this is that the Korean teacher doesn't always take the innitiative to assist lower level students, and the way classes are set up and typically run (and the fact we teach 20-22 different classes of around 30 students once a week for 40 minutes with no system of tracking students' progress or weaknesses) it's hard to run differentiated tasks, so you can't ask the KT to work with the lower level students because you will have a handful in the class sat at opposite sides of the classroom. Alternatively we can take an assistant role, if your KT prefers to be leading the class (lol)
I don't mean classroom management, I mean how do you actually teach the material without any translation? Do elementary and middle school textbooks have Korean in them or are they written completely in English?
Quote from: The Arm on October 13, 2016, 07:53:48 amI don't mean classroom management, I mean how do you actually teach the material without any translation? Do elementary and middle school textbooks have Korean in them or are they written completely in English? Fu*k no.
Quote from: CO2 on October 13, 2016, 07:59:11 amQuote from: The Arm on October 13, 2016, 07:53:48 amI don't mean classroom management, I mean how do you actually teach the material without any translation? Do elementary and middle school textbooks have Korean in them or are they written completely in English? Fu*k no.My middle school textbooks are written completely in English