tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post8484131948645273228..comments2024-02-23T23:53:54.842+09:00Comments on Gusts Of Popular Feeling: NoCut News: There is 90% satisfaction with foreign English teachers. However...matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-79634796218188647902011-09-14T13:56:41.895+09:002011-09-14T13:56:41.895+09:00"their duties have even come to include findi..."their duties have even come to include finding places to live for the native speaking assistant teachers."<br /><br />Obviously, Korean public schools just need to pitch tents and set up port-a-potties in the middle of their soccer fields so that the precious free time of Korean teaching assistants isn't squandered over unnecessary things like places to sleep and poop and shower for dirty foreigner teachers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-53665265210490245932011-09-10T22:33:10.704+09:002011-09-10T22:33:10.704+09:00You know, I never get these complaints.
(1) So th...You know, I never get these complaints.<br /><br />(1) So the NEST is wasting time in class and not taking it seriously, blah blah blah... what do you expect when you hire KIDS straight out of college, with no teaching experience whatsoever, and no passion for the profession. They're here for the cash, that's all. Let them work in the hagwons babysitting the kiddies, and keep the dedicated teachers at the PS (yeah, sorry, that means biting the bullet and keep shelling out those Level 1+ salaries... that's what experience and knowledge costs)<br /><br />(2) So the NEST wastes time in the office goofing off and playing computer games. And? The NEST is the assistant teacher, emphasis on ASSIST. The vast majority of them are not certified teachers nor have plans to go into teaching at all after leaving Korea, so why should they know how to develop lesson plans, curriculum, and whatnot. That's not their job because they are ASSISTANTS to the KETs. Another reason to keep the passionate and dedicated TEACHERS in PS and leave the cash cows to the hagwons.Darth Babaganooshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03292625818454308095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-76754938837162224652011-09-10T11:20:53.295+09:002011-09-10T11:20:53.295+09:00"If Disco Had A Baby" is what I'd li..."If Disco Had A Baby" is what I'd like to have your opinion about. Come on, I'm still waiting.<br /><br />I'm wondering if the 90% was just about one question on a survey?<br /><br />Otherwise, a great bit! I will likely show it to my upper level adult students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-5123029142787285492011-09-09T19:53:39.269+09:002011-09-09T19:53:39.269+09:00I find it interesting that it is again the convers...I find it interesting that it is again the conversational instructors who are complaining. First of all, I have never heard of an instructor assisting with the hiring and placement of a foreign teacher. Our instructors come in five minutes before their first class and leave during their off periods, and for good after their last class of the day. They have no home room class and no extra responsibilities. Furthermore, our school has had about ten conversational instructors over the past two years. One had a chair thrown at her by a frustrated (otherwise very well behaved) student, and two more had the class turn on them and announce, quite frankly, that they were terrible teachers and that they didn't want to be taught by the anymore. A few have done alright, but the students routinely fail to bring pencils or books to their classes, and the rest just came and went after a single semester (high turn over rate was one of the issues mentioned, correct?). <br /><br />In the meantime, my co-teachers who are permanent, certified teachers spend a lot of time complaining to me about all of the problems that these teachers make, expecting the other teachers to control their classroom management for them, fucking up the grading system, making serious mistakes with the exams (one time even leaking information that caused the English teachers to have to rewrite the entire thing the night before), and not knowing how to submit their grades properly. <br /><br />Just saying.I'm no Picassohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06516337555349888808noreply@blogger.com