Lead with something strong, right? 6th graders are spawn of Satan. You’re basically looking at disrespectful, talkative, prepubescent bags of skin that just strive to make your life a little more interesting. I don’t know one GEPIK teacher who looks at their 6th grade class and thinks “this is gonna be a great class.” It’s [...]
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Co-Teaching and 6th graders
Posted in GEPIK, Teaching, tagged grade 6, school on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One week in Anyang… and some notes
Posted in Korea, Matt, Teaching, tagged Anyang, money on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a weird situation. That’s about my conclusion about this place so far. I don’t particularly mean the town… from what I can tell, it’s a nice enough place. There’s no big markets around me, so getting certain food items is tough. Never thought I’d see a market not sell spaghetti, but my little corner [...]
Farewell Ansan?
Posted in Teaching, tagged Ansan, Anyang on January 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well I don’t really need a question mark here honestly. Turns out that my school has hit a bit of a hard stretch. We’ve been losing students by the truckload, in every class. They’ve started consolidating classes because we’re so low in every class. So you can guess what’s about to happen…
So my boss calls [...]
6 months in…
Posted in Korea, Matt, Teaching on November 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Been here for a good amount of time now, and I’ll tell you this, there’s a lot of give and take. This place is odd, and there’s not really another way to describe it. I’ve been doing a lot of reflection over this past week, because quite frankly, there hasn’t been a fat lot else [...]
Attempt at a picture dump…
Posted in Teaching, tagged Pictures on October 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Figured it was time to see if I could get pictures back up on this site…
Oh my crazy Junior kids… This is pretty normal behavior quite honestly. On the right, you can see Pete booking it for home. I snapped this just as the bell rang.
These girls are God’s gift to my sanity. They’ve got [...]
Level Tests…
Posted in Matt, Teaching, tagged tests on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These are God’s gift to Youngdo teachers. Imagine this… all of a sudden, you don’t have to think about what I am teaching the kids for a good chunk of time, because you’re not teaching. It’s standardized testing time!!! It’s cute too, because the little kids panic and sweat when you give it to them. [...]
Explanation for my abscence…
Posted in Matt, Oops, Teaching, tagged life, movies on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Intensives started this week. Not really a big deal by any means, but it means that I now have to wake up around 9 am to head into work. Intensives are just an additional class in the morning, which leads to overtime and a bigger paycheck here in a while for me.
It’s not an obscene [...]
Teaching English is Hard
Posted in Korea, Teaching, tagged Manhattan, Teaching on June 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Well, let me rephrase that… Teaching is hard. I feel for all of the teacher’s that I tormented in school now, just because there’s really not a good way to teach grammar. Your source material is quite frankly dull and the only way to really learn it is to read until you can’t see straight [...]
Quickie thoughts
Posted in Teaching, tagged Music, school on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Report cards are all done! Thank God. With any luck the next round I’ll be doing on my computer at home. Don’t get me wrong, using the PC Bang is good and cheap, but I’d rather not come out smelling like some awful combination of sweaty teenager and cigarettes. But that’s just me…
Found out that [...]
Report Cards
Posted in Korea, Teaching, tagged schools on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, back to the PC Bang.
Turns out that after every month, I have to fill out a crapload of report cards. We’re talking about 50+ students. All who need individual comments. It’s an interesting experience, mainly because I find myself repeating myself quite a bit.
That and we’re talking major grade inflation as well. I got [...]
