Posted in Employment, Life, Teaching on 23 August 2007 | No Comments »
I started writing this post on paper a day or two ago, but right now I’m sitting with my laptop in Sandpresso (they sell sandwiches and espressos … and other stuff) waiting for my lunch, so I might as well start again.
The weekend was pretty busy. On Friday night I went for a meal with [...]
Posted in Employment, Life, Teaching on 17 August 2007 | No Comments »
After today I have just one week of teaching left. My new air ticket is for a flight on Tuesday 28th; so I have three free days after I finish working. Not too bad.
Right now I’ve come home for a break before I have my last two classes. Our new teacher has taken over the [...]
Posted in Employment, Teaching on 27 July 2007 | No Comments »
Shortly before my last class on Tuesday our middle-aged British Canadian teacher told me that ‘they’ wanted to talk to me. When I asked who ‘they’ were he said, ‘The management.’ He didn’t elaborate on this. I started feeling nervous, imagining that something unpleasant was going to happen, something that would seem almost maliciously targeted [...]
Posted in Books, Films, Teaching on 20 July 2007 | No Comments »
And today at work was OK. We were given our schedule for the coming week and August. On Monday, the intensive classes start and as far as I can remember (and I really ought to remember) my first classes start at 10:35. That’s not good. I have three morning classes in addition to a slightly [...]
Posted in Books, Films, Teaching on 19 July 2007 | 2 Comments »
Last night (spurning the opportunity to go for a free meal with my hagwon colleagues; an opportunity that was also spurned by my New Zealander, American and South African colleagues) I went to see Die Hard 4.0.
Very impressive.
A couple of weeks previously I’d also seen Tranfsormers (which also verily impressed) and the intensity, cinematography and [...]
Posted in Teaching on 30 April 2007 | No Comments »
Strangely - especially strangely, given that it’s a Monday, Wednesday or Friday - I have a few spare moments at work to do a bit of a write-up. Over the last week or so, the class I usually have has dwindled to just one student, then on Friday it was just none - likewise today. [...]
Posted in Employment, Teaching on 27 February 2007 | 1 Comment »
My second class of the day, the oldest kindergarten students at my hagwon (well, one of two such classes), graduated on Friday. In front of a reasonably crowded auditorium they got up and recited the speeches I’d written for them - or rather, the edited, shorter versions my Korean colleague had given them. They were [...]
Posted in Employment, Teaching on 3 February 2007 | No Comments »
This past week represents something of an end of an era at my hagwon. We’ve been given new schedules for the coming term. For this month I’ll be doing the same number of classes that I did last month - which was two a week more than the previous couple of months. I’ve been told [...]
Posted in Teaching on 30 January 2007 | No Comments »
There were a couple of funy moments in one of my classes last week. The class consists of young elementary students who aren’t too good at English, but they’re all nice kids.
I was trying to illustrate the meaning of ‘easy’ and ‘difficult’, so I wrote on the board ‘2+2=’ and asked the what the answer [...]
Posted in Teaching on 15 December 2006 | No Comments »
For a while now I’ve used a points system in class. If the students speak in Korean or misbehave I give them -1 point; if they finish work quickly I give them +1. It works reasonably well, but I often get situations where suddenly one or more students start shouting ‘Danny speak Korean!’ and I haven’t heard the [...]
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