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beccatoriaBasically, it's the whole part where I have to teach ONE PAGE for 40 minutes. If I'm lucky, that page will have two lines of dialogue on it for the beginners and maybe six for the slightly better students.
That's the bit I hate. It's not enough material, and there's only so many times I can hand out paper and get them to draw or play bingo or tic-tac-toe. I've been doing okay this week because my free lessons mean I can make word jumbles or cross-words that they promptly fail to understand. And there are some wonderful websites on the net to do that, but I don't have a printer and I tried, once, to print something out at the school. NEVER AGAIN. For serious. All photocopying and printing has to go through my korean co-teacher and while they're never funny about whether it needs doing or something, it is...erratic and not something I want to rely on for lessons.
So...yeah. It's not the kids. I quite like the kids, even when they're yelling and won't listen to me. That's not really the bit that's stressing me out. Neither is it the being thousands of miles away from everything and nearly no one speaking the same language as me.
It's that moment, that currently happens about five times a day and starting Monday will happen about eight - that moment where I've taught every fucking thing on that page, I've gotten them to recite, repeat and spell it backwards. I've had them draw things. I've had them play things. AND THERE ARE STILL FIFTEEN FUCKING MINUTES LEFT. And they all just...stare at me.
I mean, sometimes it's okay. Some games take longer. If I have an excuse to get them to cut-and-paste that usually eats up extra time. But I can't play the same game with them every day or get them to cut and paste all the time because then they'll get bored and the staring will be WORSE.
I mean, seriously. It's not just me, right? One page for forty minutes is...not really forty minutes worth of educational material. And I can't just start teaching them more pages because then I get in trouble with my co-teacher for going too fast. Because we can't have the kids finishing their course early. THEN THEY WOULDN'T PAY THE SCHOOL.
The choice to do a half-assed job ought to be MINE, dammit, and they've taken it away from me. >:(
IN OTHER NEWS: Have fun all you people going to VVC. Having recently decided I'm a vidder rather than a fan who once or twice made some vids, I feel rather jealous. I hope you all have a marvelous time! Write con reports!
That's the bit I hate. It's not enough material, and there's only so many times I can hand out paper and get them to draw or play bingo or tic-tac-toe. I've been doing okay this week because my free lessons mean I can make word jumbles or cross-words that they promptly fail to understand. And there are some wonderful websites on the net to do that, but I don't have a printer and I tried, once, to print something out at the school. NEVER AGAIN. For serious. All photocopying and printing has to go through my korean co-teacher and while they're never funny about whether it needs doing or something, it is...erratic and not something I want to rely on for lessons.
So...yeah. It's not the kids. I quite like the kids, even when they're yelling and won't listen to me. That's not really the bit that's stressing me out. Neither is it the being thousands of miles away from everything and nearly no one speaking the same language as me.
It's that moment, that currently happens about five times a day and starting Monday will happen about eight - that moment where I've taught every fucking thing on that page, I've gotten them to recite, repeat and spell it backwards. I've had them draw things. I've had them play things. AND THERE ARE STILL FIFTEEN FUCKING MINUTES LEFT. And they all just...stare at me.
I mean, sometimes it's okay. Some games take longer. If I have an excuse to get them to cut-and-paste that usually eats up extra time. But I can't play the same game with them every day or get them to cut and paste all the time because then they'll get bored and the staring will be WORSE.
I mean, seriously. It's not just me, right? One page for forty minutes is...not really forty minutes worth of educational material. And I can't just start teaching them more pages because then I get in trouble with my co-teacher for going too fast. Because we can't have the kids finishing their course early. THEN THEY WOULDN'T PAY THE SCHOOL.
The choice to do a half-assed job ought to be MINE, dammit, and they've taken it away from me. >:(
IN OTHER NEWS: Have fun all you people going to VVC. Having recently decided I'm a vidder rather than a fan who once or twice made some vids, I feel rather jealous. I hope you all have a marvelous time! Write con reports!
