Right above the guy holding the mic, there is a yellow sign:
Please speak English in the classroom.
ESOL Teaching Sector March 2015 Update
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I'm attracted to the barefoot woman. Maybe because she's teaching barefoot.horace wrote:How the fuck are they supposed to learn English with all that Khmer being spoken? Seems to me it should been the white lackeys holding the microphones giving instructions and the Khmer assistants translating only if necessary.
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horace wrote:You say you have been teaching here for four years SCC, in that case you should have either a good reputation or not already. The business that we are in is very incestuous and I use the term poetically not literally and word of good teachers and teachers needed is often just word of mouth. After arriving in PP 16 years ago from SHV I have had one job interview and that was the first one , every job since has been offered to me including the current one. If you're good at what you do , toe the party line ( to a certain degree) and don't fuck it all up , then job offers/hours should come. Money makes money, working makes more work.
No, I first taught here in 2011 for 1 year, first job I went for and stayed there. Then I started again in Vietnam and taught there again first jobs I went for, even turned a few down. Then I was doing something completely unrelated in SNVL for a year and a half. Back after the break... had my first reminder of sulky teenagers today. What's the best way to shift them out of that head space?You say you have been teaching here for four years SCC
K440 : Lucky cheese for the gentry; poultry and death for the peasants.
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."
Cigarettes and video games did the trick for me back then (still do to this day, actually)SCC wrote:had my first reminder of sulky teenagers today. What's the best way to shift them out of that head space?
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sulky teenagers...make them talk
(Ve haff vays und means)
Ask them about the latest mobile phone, singer, K-pop group, nightclub, moto
Be devious, for example tell them you're going to buy a certain model phone because you think the other one is crappy (but you know the other one is the best)
You may need to research some of these topics, but always valuable info.
(Ve haff vays und means)
Ask them about the latest mobile phone, singer, K-pop group, nightclub, moto
Be devious, for example tell them you're going to buy a certain model phone because you think the other one is crappy (but you know the other one is the best)
You may need to research some of these topics, but always valuable info.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
Hate to dig up an old thread but is OP right or what? Is the market good or bad for newbies in PP?
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There are way more people here looking for work, especially backpackers who sell their souls for the price of water-bottle refills.
So yes, there are also lots of new schools, but rates are going down, FT hours are increasing
If you intend to live in a semi-human fashion, Cambodia is the last place in SE Asia to be unless you have a Master's in your field.
The COL here is not exactly value for money, crap or expensive medical, expensive accommodation, unreliable electricity, etc.
But it's not all fun and games...
However, salmonella and typhoid are cheap, accidents are 10 a penny, and the suicide rate is high, as are deaths from dirty drugs, (for the users among us)
So yes, there are also lots of new schools, but rates are going down, FT hours are increasing
If you intend to live in a semi-human fashion, Cambodia is the last place in SE Asia to be unless you have a Master's in your field.
The COL here is not exactly value for money, crap or expensive medical, expensive accommodation, unreliable electricity, etc.
But it's not all fun and games...
However, salmonella and typhoid are cheap, accidents are 10 a penny, and the suicide rate is high, as are deaths from dirty drugs, (for the users among us)
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
Good thing my soul is only worth a water bottle refill.vladimir wrote:There are way more people here looking for work, especially backpackers who sell their souls for the price of water-bottle refills.
ARe all the new schools owned by Khmer or are some foreign owned? I have been reading through some old posts and I see that people have not spoken well of schools owned and run by Khmer in the past. Which schools would be the better ones to try to get a position at? I would not want to work for one where I have to pay for my own books, however I do not mind starting off in a less well paid position if it is an opening to a position that I could actually earn enough to live comfortably on in Cambodia.
Thanks to fredfuchs for resurrecting this thread.
Thanks to fredfuchs for resurrecting this thread.
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It's not about Khmers or non-Khmers. It's about ethics and education.
There are some good schools owned and run by Khmers.
There are people who take advantage of the workforce and ignore the Labour Law, and there are people who look after their staff and understand the benefits of adhering to the law.
One can usually tell which is which simply by foreign staff turnover. If your goal is really education, and you recruit the right people and pay them a living wage, offer decent conditions and respect them, they have little reason to leave.
I really sympathise with the Khmer staff, most of whom earn less than native-speakers or people of European descent and cannot just walk out when they are abused.
There are some good schools owned and run by Khmers.
There are people who take advantage of the workforce and ignore the Labour Law, and there are people who look after their staff and understand the benefits of adhering to the law.
One can usually tell which is which simply by foreign staff turnover. If your goal is really education, and you recruit the right people and pay them a living wage, offer decent conditions and respect them, they have little reason to leave.
I really sympathise with the Khmer staff, most of whom earn less than native-speakers or people of European descent and cannot just walk out when they are abused.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
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I was talking to an Irish woman at a bar in Japan a few weeks ago and she said she had just come from a meeting at her school with school administrators and her union representative. You guys just need a union, that's all.
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It's not such a bed of roses in Japan GM. In a few cases unions can help, but mostly teachers are just hanging in the wind. I got no support when I had a dispute with my uni, and had to rely on free legal advice to beat the man.
Uni pay has been stagnant for decades, though there are increases based on age, and at language schools pay is in a long downward spiral.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2 ... u2srEXXfv4
Uni pay has been stagnant for decades, though there are increases based on age, and at language schools pay is in a long downward spiral.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2 ... u2srEXXfv4
i can speak come-eye
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Whilst my life is not exactly a bed of roses now, suicide is still not an option.gavinmac wrote: You guys just need a union, that's all.
You've been here long enough to know what happens when you interfere with big money.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
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