Thursday, February 4, 2010

24. General Tips

Don’t ever answer the phone at home if it’s the school or your co-teachers calling. No news is good news here. If they ever walk into your classroom, it’s bad news automatically. If they ever say anything about you not answering your phone, just say you leave it somewhere and don’t look at it or something.

Keep an extra lesson plan/ditto/whatever on hand, you never know when they’re going to spring a class out of left field.

Don’t bring work home; I had to learn that the hard way. No matter what, it’s not worth it to make your lessons better. If you didn’t finish the lesson at work, so be it. They didn’t give you any help to make a lesson, even though they have books and can share material with you at anytime. In the beginning of the semester I requested the books and they told me that they didn’t have English versions of the teacher’s guides for the student books. This is a lie. They have a teacher’s guide for the book (found it on their shelf in the teachers’ room) and it’s significantly in English, they just don’t want you to use it. They don’t care what you teach whatsoever – you aren’t performance reviewed and it won’t help you in any way – so don’t waste your time trying to make it better.

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