My Saudi students have asked me to help them with their spelling. I'm at a loss as to where to begin. There really isn't any class time that I can use to work with them. I told them that I'd try to find something online. However, everything I've found so far is geared towards children. My youngest Saudi is 17. The oldest is in his late twenties. I need something for adults, for beginners, ...
I took a 6 month break from my HS and just returned this month. Former teacher left everything in shambles. I had 28/34 students in one class without their textbook because the previous teacher never used it and only played games. There were students without textbooks from EVERY class I went into so far this week. We are a highly competitive HS and grades from me weigh as much as those from the ...
Along with other cancellations, like sending kids to English Camp..my schools have cancelled Sports Day. Now which is preferable? sneezing outside or in a crowded classroom??? The steps taken remindme of the silliness regarding American beef!
One of my hagwons has a disinfectant spray device in the teachers' office.
Everyone (students included) is to wash their hands and disinfect them
before each class. So before each class there is a mob of students in the
teachers' office spraying disinfectant all over the place. Prior to this, I
am certain that I was the only male who ever washed his hands at that
hagwon: the same bar of soap has ...
Yes..on the up side...there is soap in the students bathrooms now......and
children exhibiting any signs of a cold etc will be encouraged to stay home
this winter!
We are now having our temperature taken when we enter the school in the
morning - so there are long, long lines of students waiting to get in every
morning now.
Quote: Originally Posted by The_Eyeball_Kid Not one mention of it has been made at my uni. I got a phone call from the new student assistant asking when I got back to Korea and if I was feeling okay.
Evals done at my school are done a little different. There are three parts to them: students, staff, and classroom observation. 1) Students are uni-aged, so a lot less whiny and teacher-hates-me-so-ill-give-him-zeroes BS is kept to a minimum. 2) Staff evaluates me? How exactly? They know dick about my classroom or teaching or pretty much anything to do with my jobanything. Unless they are evaluating how nice I am when I come in to the staff...
Possible... I wish I had thought to get that entire event on tape. I can only remember little bits and pieces of the evening. Some of it involving me claiming that I have herpes or something and he was saying something about Jesus.
In high school Spanish, we learned songs that went along with what we were learning. The class was taught through Spanish language culture. I still do the first seven months by singing 'un de enero, dos de febrero, tres de marzo, quatro de abril, cinco de mayo, seis de junio, siete de julio, San Fermin!' My dad taught me Cuando Sali de Cuba for Spanish, and Ditez Moi (Sound of Music) for French, that was when I was a child. In Grade...
One student is 17. The other is 19. They aren't thinking of having their own kids yet. Great idea for if I ever get a class of older adults though, THANKS! :)
I'm tellin' u this system is fucked. 10 likert questions. 3 written questions. Likert questions have a rating of 1-6, with 6 being the highest. 250 students or thereabouts. 8 classes. 32 in each class give or take a couple. 6 classes I see 3 times a week and have therefore seen about 100 times this year each. Very very few bad marks from those classes. The other 2 classes I have taught about 21 times for the year. I get more bad...
Quote: Originally Posted by Yu_Bum_suk BTW, you should have seen a few of my friends' reactions when I told them they were going to Gyeongju, not Seoul (they hadn't been told, of course). One of my friends had hoped this would at the very least be a free trip up to Seoul where he could visit his friends and relatives. 'But you of all people need this cultural training so much' I reminded him. He's a gyopo who spent...
The Chairman/Founder of my college informed me that Korea had the World's First Queen (Queen Seondeok, 634-647 AD) (never mind the Egyptians or the Assyrian queens. They don't count.) Also, he used this "fact" to "prove" that the status of women in Korea has always been high. Ok. Just don't tell Confucius that.
Quote: Originally Posted by Yu_Bum_suk Dave, couldn't you just take the bonus days for December, take two official weeks in January, and then just have the school fill in some paperwork about doing a camp during the last two weeks in January? Well, I guess you can't now that you've told the district. Unless they start checking passports or immigration records there's no way for them really to know. No, that's the...
Mi_chelle in Canberra: how have adults have gotten... Mi_chelle in Canberra: how have adults have gotten through life with terrible spelling. "Alot", "defenitly&q.. 1:38 AM May 6th from twitterfeed
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But @ rbohlender , if there... Actiongrl
But @ rbohlender , if there was a spelling bee for adults, I'd never again have to spend money on movies or other hobbies. I'd just go pro!
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