Chungnam
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Today when I asked a class to open their books to a certain page, a student said "Mr. Tim, we already did this!" I knew for certain that I hadn't done that unit with that class yet, so after pressing the issue a bit, I found out that he had let his friend borrow his book, and his friend did the work in that unit. After looking around the class a bit, I discovered that that was also the case with twelve other students. That means that out of a class of 26 students, 13 of them already had the page we I had planned to do filled out.That rustled my jimmies a great deal, naturally. It's always weak af to plan a class, only to have a wrench thrown in it like that. To make things even more annoying, I had an exchange about it with my CoT:Me: "So what do you suggest we do about this?"CoT: "I don't know."Me: "What can we do to prevent this from happening in the future?"CoT: *shrugs*Great. Thanks for the help. Ugh.I have no real authority, and nobody in an actual position of authority is ever willing to do anything to improve anything here. I do realize that even my CoT really doesn't have all that much authority when it comes to the system or even disciplining the students, but I wish someone would try to do something.
Quote from: Mister Tim on April 11, 2017, 11:50:29 amToday when I asked a class to open their books to a certain page, a student said "Mr. Tim, we already did this!" I knew for certain that I hadn't done that unit with that class yet, so after pressing the issue a bit, I found out that he had let his friend borrow his book, and his friend did the work in that unit. After looking around the class a bit, I discovered that that was also the case with twelve other students. That means that out of a class of 26 students, 13 of them already had the page we I had planned to do filled out.That rustled my jimmies a great deal, naturally. It's always weak af to plan a class, only to have a wrench thrown in it like that. To make things even more annoying, I had an exchange about it with my CoT:Me: "So what do you suggest we do about this?"CoT: "I don't know."Me: "What can we do to prevent this from happening in the future?"CoT: *shrugs*Great. Thanks for the help. Ugh.I have no real authority, and nobody in an actual position of authority is ever willing to do anything to improve anything here. I do realize that even my CoT really doesn't have all that much authority when it comes to the system or even disciplining the students, but I wish someone would try to do something.Years ago, we had this problem, so the students were required to simply leave their books in a cabinet at the end of each class.No more lost books or sharing needed.Only drawback was that it took a minute at the start and end of each class.
Last week I told my main co-teacher that I don't plan to re-sign my contract. This week, her attitude has done a complete 180 and she is making my work life miserable. We've had a great relationship for 8 months; however as of last Friday she has been extremely critical of my teaching, my lesson plans, my tone of voice in the classroom. She has even criticized my English (not for legitimate reasons, but for not understanding her weird Korean use of the wrong English words). On Friday, she told me that "If you mess up the lesson on Monday, I will be very mad at you." I almost laughed out loud because I thought she was joking, but she was completely serious. I understand the frustration that she will have to work with a new foreign teacher, but her attitude is bringing me down and ruining the atmosphere in the classes we teach together. At first I was a bit sad about not staying for another year, but now August can't come soon enough.
I have a main school and two travel schools. Travel school A has their birthday next Tuesday, which is the day I teach there. The principal told me to stay home. When I informed my main school they said that on my travel schools birthdays' I have to go to the main school! I have since checked the birthday dates of my main school - I will be at a travel school that day. Petty I know, but I don't get a school birthday day off. *sulks*
Quote from: What?What? on April 11, 2017, 01:42:37 pmI have a main school and two travel schools. Travel school A has their birthday next Tuesday, which is the day I teach there. The principal told me to stay home. When I informed my main school they said that on my travel schools birthdays' I have to go to the main school! I have since checked the birthday dates of my main school - I will be at a travel school that day. Petty I know, but I don't get a school birthday day off. *sulks*What lesson was learned?Keep your mouth shut and enjoy your holiday.
Quote from: Pecan on April 11, 2017, 02:25:25 pmQuote from: What?What? on April 11, 2017, 01:42:37 pmI have a main school and two travel schools. Travel school A has their birthday next Tuesday, which is the day I teach there. The principal told me to stay home. When I informed my main school they said that on my travel schools birthdays' I have to go to the main school! I have since checked the birthday dates of my main school - I will be at a travel school that day. Petty I know, but I don't get a school birthday day off. *sulks*What lesson was learned?Keep your mouth shut and enjoy your holiday. Heheh, basically.
Melodica hasn't arrived yet. I'm sure there's probably just a mundane delay but each day it doesn't show up the slightly sadder I get
Quote from: #basedcowboyshirt on April 10, 2017, 03:28:31 pmQuote from: Chinguetti on April 10, 2017, 03:20:14 pmI've never been in a truly well-kept or clean school. The only thing that really varies is "bad" or "worse". They always use dirty mops to clean the floors, too, so it always smells bad for about an hour right after. Floors are not supposed to be dirtier after you've mopped them. xDThere are a lot of genuinely well-educated and intelligent people (I know those two don't always correlate, so I italicized 'and' so that people don't get it twisted) working in these schools.How does nobody get the fact that those mops aren't lifting the dirt anywhere. They're not being dunked in buckets and having fresh water used to clean the floors. They're literally just pushing the dirt around a little bit. And a vacuum cleaner that has zero suction because it's never been cleaned because nobody knows how to open it where it says to open it and shake the filter out once every month or so doesn't have any utility or function when you're turning it on and just pushing it around on the ground because it isn't sucking up dirt oh my god.AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHH WHY!??!?!?I have seen only one teacher who bought new mops for her students AND SOAP. She has them using fresh water/soap on her floors everyday. I see them running back and forth to the bathroom to clean their mops after lunch. My other coworkers comment on her being "too clean" Other than this one anomaly, it's dirty mops and water tissue under shoes for cleaning the floors.
Quote from: Chinguetti on April 10, 2017, 03:20:14 pmI've never been in a truly well-kept or clean school. The only thing that really varies is "bad" or "worse". They always use dirty mops to clean the floors, too, so it always smells bad for about an hour right after. Floors are not supposed to be dirtier after you've mopped them. xDThere are a lot of genuinely well-educated and intelligent people (I know those two don't always correlate, so I italicized 'and' so that people don't get it twisted) working in these schools.How does nobody get the fact that those mops aren't lifting the dirt anywhere. They're not being dunked in buckets and having fresh water used to clean the floors. They're literally just pushing the dirt around a little bit. And a vacuum cleaner that has zero suction because it's never been cleaned because nobody knows how to open it where it says to open it and shake the filter out once every month or so doesn't have any utility or function when you're turning it on and just pushing it around on the ground because it isn't sucking up dirt oh my god.AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHH WHY!??!?!?
I've never been in a truly well-kept or clean school. The only thing that really varies is "bad" or "worse". They always use dirty mops to clean the floors, too, so it always smells bad for about an hour right after. Floors are not supposed to be dirtier after you've mopped them. xD