CoT: What days do you want for vacation?Me: Not 100% sure yet. CoT: Well we need to put them in by the end of the day. Sorry I didn't tell you before.Guess I will just randomly pick and then work around that.
Quote from: MaximusPrime on November 08, 2017, 08:35:56 amCoT: What days do you want for vacation?Me: Not 100% sure yet. CoT: Well we need to put them in by the end of the day. Sorry I didn't tell you before.Guess I will just randomly pick and then work around that. And I have the complete opposite. No camp dates finalised and no one can tell me when I can take vacation..... and I need to pay for air tickets now otherwise it is just going to be too expensive to go home.
I take it you guys don't work at public schools.If you did, the yearly calendar would have been mapped out long ago.I had one school a few years ago that made crazy changes to the school calendar, but that was unusual.I feel your pain, as the cost between booking now or later is no small sum.
Quote from: Pecan on November 08, 2017, 09:23:07 amI take it you guys don't work at public schools.If you did, the yearly calendar would have been mapped out long ago.I had one school a few years ago that made crazy changes to the school calendar, but that was unusual.I feel your pain, as the cost between booking now or later is no small sum.I'm still waiting for my camp dates, too. My school likes to keep me in suspense. Everything is always so last-minute. Public school here, with my school calendar for all three schools, and no, none of the camp times are set, never in all my years here have my camp dates been pre-set for the year. I also have to wait for all three schools to argue/lay claim to/demand my time for the camps they want when they want them so that causes a delay.
Quote from: Pecan on November 08, 2017, 09:23:07 amI take it you guys don't work at public schools.If you did, the yearly calendar would have been mapped out long ago.I had one school a few years ago that made crazy changes to the school calendar, but that was unusual.I feel your pain, as the cost between booking now or later is no small sum.Come on Pecan, you know that camps are never written into the yearly calendar. The calendar just shows a month/five weeks off for January; nothing more than that.
Quote from: koreakorea on November 08, 2017, 10:03:04 amQuote from: Pecan on November 08, 2017, 09:23:07 amI take it you guys don't work at public schools.If you did, the yearly calendar would have been mapped out long ago.I had one school a few years ago that made crazy changes to the school calendar, but that was unusual.I feel your pain, as the cost between booking now or later is no small sum.Come on Pecan, you know that camps are never written into the yearly calendar. The calendar just shows a month/five weeks off for January; nothing more than that.I think your school is the exception not the rule Pecan. This is one of the top complaints people have about camps. I've worked at 7 schools now and none of them plan the exact camp dates at the start of the year. They usually wait until they have to, usually around a month or so.
So, I was working at a hagwon a couple of months ago. It seemed decent, I had some issues, but overall manageable. I was thinking it a low risk and considered returning in the future. I catch wind of something from a well connected friend over there. Seems like the director has been badmouthing a teachers when they finished their contract, and I was no exception. Saying that I left early, bought first class plane tickets, wasn't 'respectful' enough and other random BS. Pretty confused and annoyed right now.
I remember back in grade school, a coupe of teachers would pull this trick.They'd tell us that before each assignment/test we should look it over carefully before beginning and always read the instructions first. The class would promise to do so and then the teacher would give us some really long homework on the first day. Everyone would be so pissed and grumble about it, but the trick was that the very last question said that we didn't have to do the homework. It was just a test to see if we'd follow the instructions.I want to do something like this to my 6th grade students. They are so loud and never listen to anything I say. I want to teach them there are consequences for not listening, as of right now my CT doesn't seem to care that they are so unruly. I'm not going to do anything like that because I'm sure it wouldn't go over well, but I sure wish these kids had to face consequences sometimes.
Quote from: sevenpm on November 13, 2017, 09:33:00 amI remember back in grade school, a coupe of teachers would pull this trick.They'd tell us that before each assignment/test we should look it over carefully before beginning and always read the instructions first. The class would promise to do so and then the teacher would give us some really long homework on the first day. Everyone would be so pissed and grumble about it, but the trick was that the very last question said that we didn't have to do the homework. It was just a test to see if we'd follow the instructions.I want to do something like this to my 6th grade students. They are so loud and never listen to anything I say. I want to teach them there are consequences for not listening, as of right now my CT doesn't seem to care that they are so unruly. I'm not going to do anything like that because I'm sure it wouldn't go over well, but I sure wish these kids had to face consequences sometimes.In big review games / quiz type games i've started to base questions off the answers of other teams. So I can ask "Please write X teams answer" or "In Korean, can you translate what Xteam said?". This has them listening a bit at least.