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Pixelante posted:Do you see any kinds of disability represented in your classes? I see zero students with physical disabilities. I do have a few students who obviously have learning or developmental disorders, but those remain undiagnosed as Chinese society does not treat the disabled with kindness. That said, I see far more disabled people out and about here than Korea or Japan. In Korea the downs syndrome kids were thrown into class with the regular students and were guided from class to class by whatever sap qualified for 4F and had to work at a school instead. Japan, being the secret socialist state that it is, had lots of resources for disabled students including special school for behavioral issues and lots of teacher training.
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I will use any combination of trickery and skullduggery to get my students to behave according to western standards. They are actively discouraged by Chinese staff to conform to foreign teacher expectations and if they don't learn how to do it now they will be absolutely hosed in college. They'll spend eight years in a Chinese bubble in uni and return home with no skills, not even decent English. Shanghai and Beijing are filled with these kinds of washouts. I'm here to help these students succeed in the west not play the starring role in my own version of Dead Poets Society or Stand and Deliver.
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Apr 11, 2017 06:43
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LentThem posted:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/china-kindergarten-knife-attack-armed-man-11-students-pingxiang-guanhxi-a7508806.html The weirdest thing is that our school is walled and topped with barbed wire and broken glass. Ostensibly it's to keep things like this from happening. But it's really to keep the students inside. Though, the year before I arrived, two kids got in a fight, one of the student's dads was in organized crime. Apparently the mobbed up dad got his croneys to camp out at each exit waiting for the other kid to come out. I didn't see this myself, but that was pretty weird.
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Apr 11, 2017 08:34
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The suicide ranking runs: Korea > China > Japan. Japan had educational reforms about a generation ago, and the local conservatives are still salty about Japanese education being "too easy" and not driving enough kids to jump off of bridges. Korea never received these reforms and their high-stakes testing is a nightmare. China banned the national exam during the 60s and 70s but brought it back after the cultural revolution. Everyone in China hates the Gaokao, but ultra-poor and "middle-class" masses view it as their child's only hope to live a better life so they kick up a storm whenever the elites suggest something else. It is perhaps China's strongest meritocratic institution.
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Apr 12, 2017 08:50
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lemon-lyme disease posted:Free rent is awesome; being asked to keep used buttwipes in the freezer, slightly less so. Is that a thing people commonly do there or just a last-ditch suggestion prompted by a strange stereotype? The freezer thing was a common advice I heard in Korea.
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Apr 13, 2017 04:31
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I'm grading today: Q: Give an example of a time when you practiced critical thinking. A: Find some answers on the internet. Q: Define technology in your own words. A: Technology is the practical use of scientific knowledge. (Copied directly from the book. I spent 10 minutes making sure they understood the phrase "In your own words") Q: Use the term observation in a sentence. A: I see subject, object, predicate and noun, verb, adjective. (This answer stems from the students obstinately refusing to accept that English morphology is more complex than Chinese. They see a root word and they run with it. They will ignore the rest of the word and I have yet to figure out how to get them to stop, despite going over the concept with them multiple times.) Q: Explain why scientists use the INternational System of Units (SI) A: You might be familiar with the terms precision and accuracy. There's plenty of correct answers, but the wrong ones are particularly WTF.
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Apr 13, 2017 05:21
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Q: Relative to some reference points, your nose is in motion when you run. Relative to others, it is not in motion. Give one example of each. A: I think if somene's nose is bigger than others, so may be this one is run, his nose is different. A: When you drive a car you're not move. But the car is move at a large speed. Q: The difference between the initial position and the final position of an object is its _____. A: The difference between the initial position and the final position of an object is its position. Q: A ruler is on the table with the higher numbers to the right. An ant crawls along the ruler from 6cm to 2cm in 2 seconds. Describe the ant's distance, displacement, speed, and velocity. A: We don't know how long this ruler? Let us English fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Apr 13, 2017 |
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Last year, my physical science students bragged about how good they were at math and how the simple equations we used in class were too easy. This year, they poo poo the bed on the first trig problem in Physics and never recovered. Forget critical thinking problems, they were incapable of solving basic story problems. About seven or eight of them have learned in the mean time, and they were good students to begin with. As a teacher I'm comfortable with that proportion of the students making progress, especially in China.
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Apr 14, 2017 04:16
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I had to scratch a lesson on the Physics of Music because the students didn't have the foundation knowledge the textbook assumed they would. What's a note, what's a chord, what's a reed, a woodwind instrument, a brass instrument, etc. It's a bummer too, because the AP exam is going to have music questions on it, but I simply didn't have the time to teach them the basics. It would have been weeks of class time just to have the appropriate background for one lesson.green chicken feet posted:Is there any point at which Chinese education brings in an element that isn't so memorization or multiple choice focused, such as in college or grad school? Never learning how to do anything but spit back answers would be a serious impediment to being competitive in business worldwide and also would make it hard to improve conditions in their country. There are those who recognize this exact problem, and every few years some business leader gets famous for talking about this problem, but no change results from it. Any change to the high-stakes tests that are the cornerstone of this system results in massive populist backlash. Businesses have learned to work around the system. I knew a few Hyundai engineers in Korea and they always said the foreigners did anything involving design, creativity, or innovation, and the lower-paid Korean engineers were basically used for lower level work. Reportedly, Samsung does the same thing. hi liter posted:What is the standard of living for your kids? I know things aren't easy to compare across borders and continents, but are their basic needs and poo poo all being met? These kids come form families rich beyond reckoning. Let us English fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Apr 15, 2017 |
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For those interested: This book details the history of, and the numerous problems with the Chinese education system in more depth than we could do in the thread. https://www.amazon.com/Whos-Afraid-...+big+bad+dragon Let us English fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Apr 15, 2017 |
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Apr 15, 2017 02:51
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The Great Autismo! posted:I'm hoping to come through Chengdu before y'all bounce would be cool to meet y'all before you go. Might be late May if people are around. We'll still be around. Come on by, we know where to buy unleaded beer.
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Apr 19, 2017 06:40
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eschaton posted:My guess is that there aren't significant contingencies in place for that sort of thing. In Japan and Korea you'll find long sticks with U shaped padded ends that kinda look like a toilet seat in every classroom. The idea is that if an intruder shows up, you can pin him to the wall and still be a safe distance from any melee weapon he carries.
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Apr 28, 2017 03:08
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Warbird posted:How many of these "passing" kids are going off to foreign colleges/universities? All of them, and they're all screwed when they do. I wish I could see my best students succeed in university, but I also kinda want to see the gently caress ups wash out after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of their parent's money.
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Starving at the ages of 7-13 increases obesity risk of one's children and grandchildren. Obviously it's not the only factor, but the grandchildren of anyone who starved in the great leap forward have that much extra to overcome. 20% of Chinese kids are overweight or obese and more than 10% will get diabetes in their lifetime. The Chinese medical system is going to collapse under the health care costs. The government is really trying to address the issue but they're cargo culting the west on policies that don't even work in the west. They blame it on too many calories and fast food while completely ignoring the poisonous kinds of oil used in Chinese cooking are extra loving bad when paired with white rice at every meal. Oil and rice at every meal used to be associated with corrupt party officials screwing over starving peasant, so now of course everyone needs them all the time.
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