Quote from: Mister Tim on June 20, 2018, 02:31:18 pmMy PoE is having one of its semiannual provincial training seminars this Friday. That alone is reason enough to want to rant and vent, but my school has decided I need to come in and teach my first period class that morning, too. That means I get to make the 45 minute commute in the opposite direction of the training location, teach one class, then make the 2 hour trip to the training, finding some time/place to eat lunch on the way (no food or drinks in the training rooms, of course).Every other time, I've been allowed to just stay home in the morning and go straight from my apartment to training, which allows me to just eat at home, cuts out the morning commute, and cuts the travel time to the venue in half. I don't know why they've decided it needs to be different this time, but I'm... less than thrilled about it.can't you just go to the seminar, sign your name, then leave? that's what i used to do (and the korean english teachers)
My PoE is having one of its semiannual provincial training seminars this Friday. That alone is reason enough to want to rant and vent, but my school has decided I need to come in and teach my first period class that morning, too. That means I get to make the 45 minute commute in the opposite direction of the training location, teach one class, then make the 2 hour trip to the training, finding some time/place to eat lunch on the way (no food or drinks in the training rooms, of course).Every other time, I've been allowed to just stay home in the morning and go straight from my apartment to training, which allows me to just eat at home, cuts out the morning commute, and cuts the travel time to the venue in half. I don't know why they've decided it needs to be different this time, but I'm... less than thrilled about it.
Quote from: oglop on June 21, 2018, 11:43:30 amcan't you just go to the seminar, sign your name, then leave? that's what i used to do (and the korean english teachers)That wouldn't really solve the problem of having to commute to one city, teach one class, then commute to a different city in the opposite direction for the seminar, haha.
can't you just go to the seminar, sign your name, then leave? that's what i used to do (and the korean english teachers)
Quote from: Mister Tim on June 21, 2018, 01:29:03 pmQuote from: oglop on June 21, 2018, 11:43:30 amcan't you just go to the seminar, sign your name, then leave? that's what i used to do (and the korean english teachers)That wouldn't really solve the problem of having to commute to one city, teach one class, then commute to a different city in the opposite direction for the seminar, haha.Would having a friend sign for you solve the problem?
It's a small grievance but it's really starting to grate on my nerves. My school LOVES using the English room as its meeting/presentation room. I don't mind. What I do mind is the fact that they always rearrange the desks for their events and then leave them like that. Could you not take a simple 5 minutes with your group and put the desks back the way they were? Instead, I have to spend the first 5 minutes of my class getting the students to help me put the desks back in order. Maybe it's a sign that I'm ready to leave Korea. I only have two more months here but it seems like even the small stuff is starting to bother me. I think it's good I'm leaving soon.
Some piece of sh*t has parked their crappy Equus across the entrance to the school parking area. Cars cannot enter or leave the premises, including the delivery guys. It's not the VP or principal attempting to stop teachers from leaving early either.I have no classes till after lunch so wanted to zip out to get my laptop charger. There's no number on the windscreen either. The mentality just baffles me.
Quote from: Aristocrat on June 22, 2018, 09:10:19 amSome piece of sh*t has parked their crappy Equus across the entrance to the school parking area. Cars cannot enter or leave the premises, including the delivery guys. It's not the VP or principal attempting to stop teachers from leaving early either.I have no classes till after lunch so wanted to zip out to get my laptop charger. There's no number on the windscreen either. The mentality just baffles me.My boss in Sweden had someone do this when he wanted to get out of his garage, so he snapped off one of the windscreen wipers.
Quote from: Chinguetti on June 22, 2018, 09:17:31 amQuote from: Dave Stepz on June 22, 2018, 09:15:29 amQuote from: Aristocrat on June 22, 2018, 09:10:19 amSome piece of sh*t has parked their crappy Equus across the entrance to the school parking area. Cars cannot enter or leave the premises, including the delivery guys. It's not the VP or principal attempting to stop teachers from leaving early either.I have no classes till after lunch so wanted to zip out to get my laptop charger. There's no number on the windscreen either. The mentality just baffles me.My boss in Sweden had someone do this when he wanted to get out of his garage, so he snapped off one of the windscreen wipers. Just make sure there aren't an CCTVs around when you do this.Of course! Leave no trace!
Quote from: Dave Stepz on June 22, 2018, 09:15:29 amQuote from: Aristocrat on June 22, 2018, 09:10:19 amSome piece of sh*t has parked their crappy Equus across the entrance to the school parking area. Cars cannot enter or leave the premises, including the delivery guys. It's not the VP or principal attempting to stop teachers from leaving early either.I have no classes till after lunch so wanted to zip out to get my laptop charger. There's no number on the windscreen either. The mentality just baffles me.My boss in Sweden had someone do this when he wanted to get out of his garage, so he snapped off one of the windscreen wipers. Just make sure there aren't an CCTVs around when you do this.
So the New co-T I have just came in from another school, and only started teaching English recently. she's never taught with a foreigner before either. I've been at this for 7 years now and always have a routine that my class can follow. I know how to teach certain things to different classes. Before she came, i had a routine with the previous teacher, and our classes ran smoothly. now with her around it's nothing but frustrating. Whenever I make suggestions, she just says ok and goes on to do her own thing. For example, we do tests on the last day of every unit. We play it maybe 2 times, 3 if the students ask for it. I told her that she doesnt need to play the entire dialogue and questions again when checking the answers, cause the studetns just get tired and restless. If they didnt know the answer the first 3 times we played it, theyre not going to know it the next 2 times we play it, i told her to just check their answers. they usually do get all the answers right any way. But she never listens. She plays it mainly for herself, because she doesnt understand English that well. Doing this takes up an entire 45 mins of the class and by the end the students are usually tired and have zero energy left. Before, these tests took 20 mins and i would reward them with a game and they always left class with high energies. There's so many other things that she doesnt listen to. Then she does this annoying thing of constantly cleaning and re-arranging things in class while i'm teaching. The only thing she does is plays the dialogue in the textbook and explains certain phrases in Korean when needed (and ofcourse when she plays the dialogue she takes the longest time to do it). I'd like her to be present through out the class. But instead i have to keep calling out to her to get her attention. On top of her constant cleaning, the room has this strong perfume or aroma. it gives me such a headache to be there. To be fair she did ask me in the beginning if i liked nice smelling things and suggested putting one of those air freshner bottles in the room, to which i said yeah, i dont mind. I did not expect it to be so strong that it actually wafts out into the hall way. I am so tired of teaching with her. I speak to her in the nicest way possible but I'm so close to losing it. I really just want to just take over the class on do this on my own, I dont need her to click a mouse and play through the dialogues in the books. i can do that on my own. But that's the system my previous teacher and i had. The previous teacher told the new Co-T what our class routine was like and now she feels obligated to follow that but at the slowest most annoying pace ever, and makes certain changes that dont need to be made!!!I really dont know what to do with her anymore...
A sixth grade teacher has changed the 6th period class on Tuesday to first period on two occasions this past month. Both times, she asked me the day before so it was fine.Today, at 8.45, a student from her class came to my office to say that from now on, the teacher wanted to have our class in the sixth period. Seemed a bit odd, but the teacher is very anxious, so I figured she just wanted to clarify everything.A few minutes later, the student came back out of breath, explaining that his teacher wants our class to be in the first period from now on. I've complained many times about not having proper notice of schedule changes, and was in the process of eating breakfast and drinking coffee, so I told the kid to tell his teacher that I was eating breakfast and I'm not going to accept schedule changes without being told the day before. Ten minutes is not acceptable notice.I do kind of feel sorry for that teacher as she's extremely anxious and cannot control her own class. She's even had parents insulting her over Kakao Talk which brought her to tears. But in the Korean workplace, you have to draw firm lines unless you want the crap to roll downhill onto you.
Quote from: StillInKorea on June 26, 2018, 08:20:07 amA sixth grade teacher has changed the 6th period class on Tuesday to first period on two occasions this past month. Both times, she asked me the day before so it was fine.Today, at 8.45, a student from her class came to my office to say that from now on, the teacher wanted to have our class in the sixth period. Seemed a bit odd, but the teacher is very anxious, so I figured she just wanted to clarify everything.A few minutes later, the student came back out of breath, explaining that his teacher wants our class to be in the first period from now on. I've complained many times about not having proper notice of schedule changes, and was in the process of eating breakfast and drinking coffee, so I told the kid to tell his teacher that I was eating breakfast and I'm not going to accept schedule changes without being told the day before. Ten minutes is not acceptable notice.I do kind of feel sorry for that teacher as she's extremely anxious and cannot control her own class. She's even had parents insulting her over Kakao Talk which brought her to tears. But in the Korean workplace, you have to draw firm lines unless you want the crap to roll downhill onto you.To just play devil's advocate; didn't you anticipate that the class might be moved again since it had already happened twice in the past month? In that situation I would have waited until you knew for sure before tucking into a full blown meal at your desk during work time.Has there been any fallout? Because surely the message is "StillInKorea didn't come to class because he was eating his breakfast (during work time) and refused to stop". Aristocrat and Dave Stepz are talking about bullying. Did she really bully you? lol I just think that however annoying last minute changes are (and I know they are!!) we should try and be flexible because it is a different culture.I think that spitting the dummy just makes you come across really badly to your coworkers.