I know it's bad to rant about the ability of our students but I don't know how much more dumbing down of my classes I can do.I'm literally down to phrases like "He is tall" and even that's too much for them.I've mentioned it before but it blows my mind how they can happily work through a textbook with the most convoluted, long sentences and paragraphs in their classes with the KET, then come to my class and struggle with "She has short hair".This is high school
Quote from: The Arm on April 07, 2017, 10:43:42 amI know it's bad to rant about the ability of our students but I don't know how much more dumbing down of my classes I can do.I'm literally down to phrases like "He is tall" and even that's too much for them.I've mentioned it before but it blows my mind how they can happily work through a textbook with the most convoluted, long sentences and paragraphs in their classes with the KET, then come to my class and struggle with "She has short hair".This is high school Yikes... that's balls. I was really taken aback during one of the first classes this semester-- I was starting out easy with the one of the new grade 4 classes and asking "Who's he/Who's she" but they had already forgotten that from the previous year and needed the coT to step in and translate... If this is any indication of how things are in general, I wonder how much is ever retained at all. Like, there are enough students that are fine and remember things and I know these are elementary kids but we used that simple phrase so much their 3rd grade year and the entire class was just flummoxed
Why is it that, if they are teaching at a secondary school Korean teachers are allowed to go to the main school when they finish but us foreign teachers are not??
Quote from: vanlianjoseph@gmail.com on April 07, 2017, 01:13:00 pmWhy is it that, if they are teaching at a secondary school Korean teachers are allowed to go to the main school when they finish but us foreign teachers are not??Because you are their prized possession. They have control of you for so many days a week and they intend to get their money's worth. Like today, there was a safety and health demonstration all morning. I was trotted over to the gym to stand around so that I could appear in the background of promotional pictures for my school. Love it.
Not sure If I understand the OP on this issue, but when I used to go to my travel school on Fridays (not my main school), I would finish at 1:50 in the afternoon.Did I stick around? No. I would bounce.Usually, I would go back to my main school to tidy up and finish prepping for Monday, but there were other times, when I would simply go home or get a head start on my weekend.Are they saying you need to stay at your travel school?That is nuts.Teach your classes and go.
Quote from: Pecan on April 07, 2017, 02:08:25 pmNot sure If I understand the OP on this issue, but when I used to go to my travel school on Fridays (not my main school), I would finish at 1:50 in the afternoon.Did I stick around? No. I would bounce.Usually, I would go back to my main school to tidy up and finish prepping for Monday, but there were other times, when I would simply go home or get a head start on my weekend.Are they saying you need to stay at your travel school?That is nuts.Teach your classes and go.I can't leave my satellite schools til day's end. Today, for example, I'm here til 5:20 because clock off is 4:40, but the bus home is hourly, 20 after.I'm provincial, though.