Unfortunately, our job isn't really to be life long friends to students. A lot of people come here, and want to leave behind a legacy or something. Your kids will forget about you almost immediately after you leave... minus a few. Don't get me wrong, I learn my kids names (afterschool where there aren't 32 kids a class) and I still am friendly with them in the classroom, and in the halls. However, I have no intention, or am I trying to be life friends, or strive for them to remember me... But hey, if hooking up with your students later at home, and having them on Kakao, and ya know, accidentally getting a few pregnant is your prerogative, then who am I to argue.
Quote from: strugglebunny on December 13, 2016, 11:55:39 amQuote from: donovan on December 13, 2016, 11:47:29 amIt's the most disheartening time of the year. I spent the better part of the school year building rapport with the students, and in the last month or so it starts to get torn apart by student (and teacher? ) fatigue. I wish it was easier to end on a high note, to make our last memory of each other a positive one, but year after year this seems to be the pattern. We won't be having subject teachers' classes in February so they may forget about me before the school year is even finished. That's not too big a deal in this situation. Fortunately (or unfortunately), due to the previous native English teacher not liking this place and complaining, I was kind of shoehorned into this school mid-year and due to a combination of many factors, I have pretty much no rapport with anyone. (I don't even know any of the kids' names.) It's actually one of the most awkward places I've ever been in, and every day I pray for class cancellations and for the time to speed on by.It was more like a "Huh, that actually works here?" moment than any sort of feeling of disappointment.Unfortunately, our job isn't really to be life long friends to students. A lot of people come here, and want to leave behind a legacy or something. Your kids will forget about you almost immediately after you leave... minus a few. Don't get me wrong, I learn my kids names (afterschool where there aren't 32 kids a class) and I still am friendly with them in the classroom, and in the halls. However, I have no intention, or am I trying to be life friends, or strive for them to remember me... But hey, if hooking up with your students later at home, and having them on Kakao, and ya know, accidentally getting a few pregnant is your prerogative, then who am I to argue.
Quote from: donovan on December 13, 2016, 11:47:29 amIt's the most disheartening time of the year. I spent the better part of the school year building rapport with the students, and in the last month or so it starts to get torn apart by student (and teacher? ) fatigue. I wish it was easier to end on a high note, to make our last memory of each other a positive one, but year after year this seems to be the pattern. We won't be having subject teachers' classes in February so they may forget about me before the school year is even finished. That's not too big a deal in this situation. Fortunately (or unfortunately), due to the previous native English teacher not liking this place and complaining, I was kind of shoehorned into this school mid-year and due to a combination of many factors, I have pretty much no rapport with anyone. (I don't even know any of the kids' names.) It's actually one of the most awkward places I've ever been in, and every day I pray for class cancellations and for the time to speed on by.It was more like a "Huh, that actually works here?" moment than any sort of feeling of disappointment.
It's the most disheartening time of the year. I spent the better part of the school year building rapport with the students, and in the last month or so it starts to get torn apart by student (and teacher? ) fatigue. I wish it was easier to end on a high note, to make our last memory of each other a positive one, but year after year this seems to be the pattern. We won't be having subject teachers' classes in February so they may forget about me before the school year is even finished.
Don't get me wrong.
Quote from: yirj17 on December 13, 2016, 01:48:40 pmTis the season, when elem. coT gets uber interested in what I'm doing for middle school camp. Except this time, instead of asking me, she tells me she "had better talk to [my main coT] about winter camp." Umm okay. Trying to go behind my back to get specifics?? My main coT only requires a general outline of the camp schedule so it's not like she has detailed lesson plans and materials. Like if this coT wanted to know a general idea of what I'm doing, I'm not averse to chatting about it. But last year she wanted me to send her ALL my lesson plans and materials for a camp that's not even the grade levels she teaches Of course I didn't. I even told her that most of the material wasn't anything I could send via email anyway. To which she just responded, "You had better send me all the lesson plans and materials." Miserable. I'm a material factory and I'm really, really fussy about the quality of anything I make. I'm totally willing to share stuff when it's relevant or applicable to something one of my coteachers is doing. But when people just want me to dump ALL my stuff on them, especially when they've literally never made a single thing and just use stuff as-is from indieschool without even taking a tiny bit of time to proof it for mistakes or alter the vocabulary to match the textbook, then I draw the line.
Tis the season, when elem. coT gets uber interested in what I'm doing for middle school camp. Except this time, instead of asking me, she tells me she "had better talk to [my main coT] about winter camp." Umm okay. Trying to go behind my back to get specifics?? My main coT only requires a general outline of the camp schedule so it's not like she has detailed lesson plans and materials. Like if this coT wanted to know a general idea of what I'm doing, I'm not averse to chatting about it. But last year she wanted me to send her ALL my lesson plans and materials for a camp that's not even the grade levels she teaches Of course I didn't. I even told her that most of the material wasn't anything I could send via email anyway. To which she just responded, "You had better send me all the lesson plans and materials."
I understand why Korean people are so sensitive about Japan, but what I don't understand is when they try to claim something small and insignificant doesn't come from Japan. Teaching the Konglish class when we got to "arbeit" meaning part-time job and I mentioned that this is the word that Japan uses, which is why it came to Korea and they all vehemently deny that suck a thing could happen ...
Quote from: moonbrie on December 12, 2016, 01:00:22 pmI understand why Korean people are so sensitive about Japan, but what I don't understand is when they try to claim something small and insignificant doesn't come from Japan. Teaching the Konglish class when we got to "arbeit" meaning part-time job and I mentioned that this is the word that Japan uses, which is why it came to Korea and they all vehemently deny that suck a thing could happen ... for extra lulz tell them that Doraemon is actually Japanese. which it is.had one obnoxious 6th grade kid once banging on and on about how korean animation is so great and blah blah blah, just look at Doraemon. pointed out to him that Doraemon was japanese and he vehemently denied it. showed him evidence online, little shit looked like he wanted to cry. that's what you get when you play with the big boys son.
My MOE has just blocked Youtube. I'm trying to look up DIY videos for camp but I have to go through Naver to get to Youtube.
Just the usual camp gripes.Submit a camp without knowing how many students will attend.Submit a camp without knowing how the students will be grouped.Make and submit camp for no budget, as per instruction, only to find out there is a budget.Said budget is a mystery.Edit camp and prepare materials for mystery budget.Prediction: Materials exceed or fall short of mystery budget by mystery amount. Resubmit materials list until they exactly match the mystery number in the VP's mind. Number is between 1 and 1,000,000. Do it by yesterday.
Quote from: yirj17 on December 13, 2016, 02:53:28 pmQuote from: #basedcowboyshirt on December 13, 2016, 02:33:39 pmQuote from: yirj17 on December 13, 2016, 01:48:40 pmI had one coteacher who, after I would make all my materials, would say she didn't like them because I'd done something similar a few months ago and it wasn't original enough, and then I found out she was using them in her classes and making me make more stuff. I was irritated.
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Quote from: CO2 on December 13, 2016, 03:22:57 pmQuote from: gidget on December 13, 2016, 03:18:21 pmMy MOE has just blocked Youtube. I'm trying to look up DIY videos for camp but I have to go through Naver to get to Youtube.How can she slap?I think there's slang in that thar yonder post but I ain't gettin' it... Slapping? No. No slapping. Fire. I want to set things on fire. I HATE this week. In the latest installment of the unnecessary-drama-that-is-camp, I know there's a budget. I know how much the budget is. It hasn't change din years. But my CT has just informed that there is no money for camp. Meanwhile, mysterious, useless, DUMB miscellaneous items totalling my mystery budget have just appeared on my CT's desk who keeps muttering to himself and asking why he ordered it.But that's OK. I don't mind. I have fire. And it's only Tuesday and this week won't get any worse.
Quote from: gidget on December 13, 2016, 03:18:21 pmMy MOE has just blocked Youtube. I'm trying to look up DIY videos for camp but I have to go through Naver to get to Youtube.How can she slap?
I had one coteacher who, after I would make all my materials, would say she didn't like them because I'd done something similar a few months ago and it wasn't original enough, and then I found out she was using them in her classes and making me make more stuff. I was irritated.
I create good lessons, I'm never late or absent, and I always say yes when asked to do something.I don't know. I just feel discouraged right now. I was finally starting to feel good about staying for another year, I'm so excited about my Christmas lessons, and now I'm just... sad.