Classes are divided by grade and skill level
Quote from: JVPrice on March 06, 2019, 07:00:45 amClasses are divided by grade and skill levelOh my god, that would be amazing.
Quote from: Mister Tim on March 06, 2019, 07:38:54 amQuote from: JVPrice on March 06, 2019, 07:00:45 amClasses are divided by grade and skill levelOh my god, that would be amazing.On paper, it sounds like it would be great. But in reality, because people are bad, a lot of the times the low skill classes are paired with a low skill teacher who just does the bare minimum because nobody's expecting anything of that class. Which is really sad.
Quote from: #basedcowboyshirt on March 06, 2019, 07:44:32 amQuote from: Mister Tim on March 06, 2019, 07:38:54 amQuote from: JVPrice on March 06, 2019, 07:00:45 amClasses are divided by grade and skill levelOh my god, that would be amazing.On paper, it sounds like it would be great. But in reality, because people are bad, a lot of the times the low skill classes are paired with a low skill teacher who just does the bare minimum because nobody's expecting anything of that class. Which is really sad.I'm going on the assumption that if my school were to divide classes based on level, I'd still be the one teaching all of them. I'm not out there winning awards or anything, but I like to think I'm a competent teacher. I'd love to be able to teach classes where everyone was at or near the same skill level.
Quote from: Mister Tim on March 06, 2019, 07:54:47 amQuote from: #basedcowboyshirt on March 06, 2019, 07:44:32 amQuote from: Mister Tim on March 06, 2019, 07:38:54 amQuote from: JVPrice on March 06, 2019, 07:00:45 amClasses are divided by grade and skill levelOh my god, that would be amazing.On paper, it sounds like it would be great. But in reality, because people are bad, a lot of the times the low skill classes are paired with a low skill teacher who just does the bare minimum because nobody's expecting anything of that class. Which is really sad.I'm going on the assumption that if my school were to divide classes based on level, I'd still be the one teaching all of them. I'm not out there winning awards or anything, but I like to think I'm a competent teacher. I'd love to be able to teach classes where everyone was at or near the same skill level.We did this for a year at my school and I really enjoyed it. Because the classes were split they were smaller so I could help the students much more efficiently. It was a lot easier to give the higher levels more challenging material and go much slower with the lower levels. It's a shame we only did it for a year.But to touch on #basedcowboyshirt's point, yeah that definitely happened at my school. When they weren't seeing me, the lower level classes were taught by another contract teacher who usually just let them sleep, watch Youtube or clean the classroom. Quite sad. Her contract got renewed as well haha.
This is my 8th year teaching here -at nine different schools so far- and I've never taught a class that was divided by level. I've taught plenty of classes that weren't even divided by grade, let alone level. I can barely even imagine what it'd be like, haha.
Quote from: Mister Tim on March 06, 2019, 10:02:33 amThis is my 8th year teaching here -at nine different schools so far- and I've never taught a class that was divided by level. I've taught plenty of classes that weren't even divided by grade, let alone level. I can barely even imagine what it'd be like, haha.If it wasn't divided by grade, how was it divided?Am genuinely curious. :o
They were afternoon classes with all the 1st-3rd graders in one class, and all the 4th-6th graders in another. It was... interesting.
Quote from: Mister Tim on March 06, 2019, 11:30:58 amThey were afternoon classes with all the 1st-3rd graders in one class, and all the 4th-6th graders in another. It was... interesting.That's like the opposite of what I do lol How does that even cover all your work hours? Do you have like 5 schools or something?
Can always PM me about it if you want to vent.I don't have anything to do, and am happy to listen :D
Me too. Please spill the drama!
Quote from: Kayos on March 05, 2019, 12:30:20 pmCan always PM me about it if you want to vent.I don't have anything to do, and am happy to listen :DQuote from: JVPrice on March 05, 2019, 01:20:57 pmMe too. Please spill the drama!Aw, thanks, you guys. It's fine, there's a lot of info, and a friend ended up calling me and I had myself a good, long, rage-induced exorcism. I honestly don't have the energy to get into it again, lol. But to give you all a taste, the drama involved a certain previously mentioned person I complained about before and a few other unnamed persons. They basically tried to bully me into making my personal, private life their business. Of course none of it flew, but the fact that they think this way AND tried to act on it AND honestly thought that I would stay quiet about all of it (really, wtf?), means that I'm dealing with some mentally unstable muthufuckus.They know how to toe the line, though, and I think they'll keep their heads low for a bit, but I'm in for a fun year.
Scheduling is particularly chaotic this year and involves me leaving classes early and running between floors to start other classes outside of the official scheduling. This is all because one member of the cafeteria staff left and the kitchen team requested a single lunch period so they could cope. Cue chaos. Apparently the cafeteria is so busy at lunchtime we're now cutting 20 minutes off 4th period (all lessons are officially 40 minutes) so some grades can arrive at the cafeteria earlier. Main colleague and I agreed that this is obviously unworkable and have moved all classes from this condensed pre-lunch period to later in the day. However, other grades cannot be moved and should go to lunch 15 minutes early so we've resorted to eliminating breaktime between 3rd and 4th period from some grades at some times under certain conditions.I've been here long enough to know this won't last but it's frustrating nonetheless.
Quote from: robin_teacher on March 07, 2019, 11:35:17 amScheduling is particularly chaotic this year and involves me leaving classes early and running between floors to start other classes outside of the official scheduling. This is all because one member of the cafeteria staff left and the kitchen team requested a single lunch period so they could cope. Cue chaos. Apparently the cafeteria is so busy at lunchtime we're now cutting 20 minutes off 4th period (all lessons are officially 40 minutes) so some grades can arrive at the cafeteria earlier. Main colleague and I agreed that this is obviously unworkable and have moved all classes from this condensed pre-lunch period to later in the day. However, other grades cannot be moved and should go to lunch 15 minutes early so we've resorted to eliminating breaktime between 3rd and 4th period from some grades at some times under certain conditions.I've been here long enough to know this won't last but it's frustrating nonetheless.Isn't it amazing?Everyone comes to school in the middle of the damn holiday for 2 weeks, specifically to plan for the year. 2 weeks to plan everything! Then you have endless meetings and paperwork all to have everything go balls up on the 4th of March and have everyone running around like headless chickens. I too got the new textbook 5min before class, but is we all know, the "new" textbooks are simply the old ones with the lessons re-arranged and "May I speak to Seho?" becoming "May I speak to Jino?". Just use your old lessons, they're exactly the same.