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do i teach kids who are absolute morons?if you've been studying english every day for over 5 years, and can't read the word 'pencil'...anyone else have similar situations?
I have a 2nd grade boy who gets bullied a lot by everyone, including the girls. To be honest, he can be childish and annoying. Not in that loud sort of way, but he likes to keep playing playground types of jokes on others and doesn't know when to stop until people get angry with him. So I get having a short amount of patience with him. But the kind of hostility and animosity that comes from some of the students towards him is above and beyond. He's not a bad kid, just a little socially awkward. He doesn't pick on anyone, never tries to hurt anyone, he doesn't dig through people's shit like some of these kids do. He really doesn't deserve how a lot of the other students treat him. But he's an easy target. He's a small, little guy, smaller than the average, and doesn't really know how to make friends outside of being what he thinks is playful. I feel so bad for him.
Sounds like he falls on the Autism scale?
I've found it's impossible to control what the students do outside class, obviously, but in the class I can. I watch my students a lot during class and also during breaktime and how they interact with each other. Generally, if I have those kind of socially awkward students, I would try and find a kindred soul for them to sit with, all the while keeping the other less nice kids away from them. Years ago, I had three bully boys in a group of fifteen, with two of the other fifteen being slow learners. These three boys always wound up one of the slow learners, who himself was not always innocent of starting things. But I made in no uncertain terms that IF in my class he gets upset or is made to cry by you then YOU will be in trouble. Not him. When I made the seat plan the three bullies were always separate and never near him.It's really difficult and something you'll wrack your brains trying to solve, but in the end it's kind of out of your hands. In your personal space, you can do something to make them comfortable, but outside of that you just have to let them grow up.
Whenever you see advertisements for adult English hagwons, the commercials are often along the lines of, 'Isn't English terrifying? Doesn't it make you SO NERVOUS AND SWEATY?! Come to us and we'll make it SO EASY!"
50 minutes into a mandatory CPR training session being conducted in fluent Korean. My poker face has gone; I'm sure I look visibly pissed off, and now if looks like I'll have to demonstrate "what I've learnt".
Quote from: robin_teacher on September 12, 2018, 01:53:38 pm50 minutes into a mandatory CPR training session being conducted in fluent Korean. My poker face has gone; I'm sure I look visibly pissed off, and now if looks like I'll have to demonstrate "what I've learnt". Insist on a human volunteer to be your test dummy, and then "accidentally" make 5 inch chest compressions rather than the standard 2. Proceed to blame the pulmonary herniation, hypoxia, and various other manifestations of thoracic trauma on the language barrier. Guaranteed you won't have to attend CPR class next year!
Update: It's break-time. I informed my colleagues that I didn't think I should be there because I didn't understand and I'd be a danger to someone in real trouble if I was expected to perform CPR on them. They didn't fight it too hard, thankfully. They kept saying it's okay and I could just practice on the dummy... I'm really taken-aback. Why do I keep having to explain why training someone in life-saving techniques in a foreign language is a bad idea?In summary, don't go into cardiac arrest around me because I'll probably just crush your rib cage while counting to 11 in Korean. Or electrocute you with a fancy machine that I don't understand.Quote from: kyndo on September 12, 2018, 02:04:30 pmQuote from: robin_teacher on September 12, 2018, 01:53:38 pm50 minutes into a mandatory CPR training session being conducted in fluent Korean. My poker face has gone; I'm sure I look visibly pissed off, and now if looks like I'll have to demonstrate "what I've learnt". Insist on a human volunteer to be your test dummy, and then "accidentally" make 5 inch chest compressions rather than the standard 2. Proceed to blame the pulmonary herniation, hypoxia, and various other manifestations of thoracic trauma on the language barrier. Guaranteed you won't have to attend CPR class next year!Hey! This is incredibly relevant because based on what I thought they said I thought that I was supposed to do 4 inch compressions. I stand reassured that I definitely shouldn't be recorded as being CPR-trained. I hope not going-with-the-flow doesn't come back to bite me in the ass too hard.
Quote from: robin_teacher on September 12, 2018, 01:53:38 pm50 minutes into a mandatory CPR training session being conducted in fluent Korean. My poker face has gone; I'm sure I look visibly pissed off, and now if looks like I'll have to demonstrate "what I've learnt".You're making the mistake in believing this actually about saving lives, it's purely about going through the motions of simply attending.
Having a really hard time staying awake at my desk because I've been sleeping poorly all week. Didn't get anything done today, just barely made it through my classes. I kept losing my clicker thingy because my brain is basically fumes right now. Kids had a lot of fun finding it for me and keeping track of how many times they had to go on the hunt, though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAYDRIbXFAcAlso, that new Predator movie is terrible. Don't watch it unless you don't care about how a kid and a guy wearing a suit without any speaking roles were the best actors in the whole film. Olivia Munn is just horrible, why do they keep giving her parts in big films?