Pecan, regarding giving feedback for tests, my experience is somewhat different. The Korean co-teachers often ask me whether an answer is right or wrong, and then the head teacher proceeds to ignore my opinion. Kim Teacher: Menlyn, a student wrote this, is it correct?Menlyn: No, I'm afraid not. KT: Are you sure? There's no way it can be correct?M: Yes, it's definitely wrong. KT: (In Korean to other teachers) We're still going to mark it correct.
AFAIK they can't run more trains because they are still on strike. they don't have the capacity to do it. they've severely curtailed train service in my city. trains to Seoul used to run multiple times per hour and now it's only once every 2-3 hours but i've had the same experience as you. even before the strike you used to have to book tickets a full week in advance to go to Seoul on the weekends, and come back on Sunday evening. now since the strike it's been almost impossible to book tickets in advance. i don't even bother with the train anymore. but even before the strike you'd think they would run more trains, since they used to sell out so often.
Quote from: chupacaubrey on November 16, 2016, 03:22:09 pmHoly jeez I have the most useless co-teacher. I would rather there be a group of stray cats in heat than have her dead-faced in the back doing fuck-all. Nothing new in this thread but it gets so bad I sometimes just want to stop everything I'm doing (that no one is listening to anyway) and walk out of the room and let her deal with something for once.Anyone feeling that? Anyone ever live that dream?At my first school, I had a coteacher who was always saying she was too busy to come to the class. So one day, I did a big no no and left the kids alone in the class (they were high school kids, so it's not like they were helpless or anything being unsupervised for a minute) and went to her office and she was napping, so I woke her up and asked her to come to class and help me with the lesson.
Holy jeez I have the most useless co-teacher. I would rather there be a group of stray cats in heat than have her dead-faced in the back doing fuck-all. Nothing new in this thread but it gets so bad I sometimes just want to stop everything I'm doing (that no one is listening to anyway) and walk out of the room and let her deal with something for once.Anyone feeling that? Anyone ever live that dream?
Quote from: yirj17 on November 17, 2016, 11:13:59 ama coT is frustrating me lately. She'll randomly decide that something I'm doing or have already done isn't appropriate for class even though she never said otherwise when I told her prior to class about the lesson plans. This is also the teacher who nearly threw a fit when I happened to have a picture of Park GeunHye in a ppt about famous people. Would it have been so hard to just be like "I don't like PGH, please don't use her in class as an example" instead of being so angry about it and making me feel like I personally wronged you? So at the end of Oct. I showed some classes a few horror shorts in the spirit of Halloween (nothing gory or even horrifically frightening, just some jumps. Some of the Ponysmasher ones people have recommended here).At the end of that class, she asks me what the video meant because she didn't watch it. I explain it to her (it was the demon in the picture that swaps places with the woman). She then goes on to say that she thinks I should only show "heartwarming" or "cute" videos in class and asks why the kids were scared and why I would show that. This also from someone who planned on showing the kids a PETA level video about animal cruelty; yeah okay, so you don't have to stick to heartwarming/cute but I do. Then for summer camp (for which I submit an approved list of supplies before ever purchasing anything), I had gotten a few decks of playing cards to teach the kids some American games. Some time later, when I want to use the cards for a travel school, I notice that all the decks are missing. I assume maybe the kids borrowed them so I ask coT about it. She doesn't know what I'm talking about. I literally google a picture of playing cards and then she goes all quiet and suddenly is of the position that those kinds of cards are "inappropriate for class" because they symbolize "gambling." For the record, my coT at my other middle school has had no issues with any of the aforementioned. So I feel like this coT is just being conservative and stuff.I've worked with more coteachers than I can count (literally, I can't remember how many. It's a lot) and the absolute worst are the ones like you're describing, who just pick arbitrary things to be fussy about and then blame you, when they had so many chances to voice their opinion earlier but didn't, and are just having a bad day (read: life) and decide to vent their spleen on you because honestly, in some cases, even if you're the most rockstar fantastic teacher on earth, as a foreigner, we're still an easy target as a punching bag sometimes.I hope you don't have too many more problems with her. She sounds like a trash human.
a coT is frustrating me lately. She'll randomly decide that something I'm doing or have already done isn't appropriate for class even though she never said otherwise when I told her prior to class about the lesson plans. This is also the teacher who nearly threw a fit when I happened to have a picture of Park GeunHye in a ppt about famous people. Would it have been so hard to just be like "I don't like PGH, please don't use her in class as an example" instead of being so angry about it and making me feel like I personally wronged you? So at the end of Oct. I showed some classes a few horror shorts in the spirit of Halloween (nothing gory or even horrifically frightening, just some jumps. Some of the Ponysmasher ones people have recommended here).At the end of that class, she asks me what the video meant because she didn't watch it. I explain it to her (it was the demon in the picture that swaps places with the woman). She then goes on to say that she thinks I should only show "heartwarming" or "cute" videos in class and asks why the kids were scared and why I would show that. This also from someone who planned on showing the kids a PETA level video about animal cruelty; yeah okay, so you don't have to stick to heartwarming/cute but I do. Then for summer camp (for which I submit an approved list of supplies before ever purchasing anything), I had gotten a few decks of playing cards to teach the kids some American games. Some time later, when I want to use the cards for a travel school, I notice that all the decks are missing. I assume maybe the kids borrowed them so I ask coT about it. She doesn't know what I'm talking about. I literally google a picture of playing cards and then she goes all quiet and suddenly is of the position that those kinds of cards are "inappropriate for class" because they symbolize "gambling." For the record, my coT at my other middle school has had no issues with any of the aforementioned. So I feel like this coT is just being conservative and stuff.
I'm just gonna plug in my headphones and chill the rest of the day since classes are finished. Continue with the saga of Harry Potter and co. Soon will be done with the last audiobook! Then I gotta find the Stephen Fry versions somewhere, somehow