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Q: Anyone been told to stop teaching well?
Too many students are leaving once their contracts are finished. My boss told me to stop teaching them so well. That way they'll stay for more classes. Kind of warped logic in my opinion. Anyone else deal with this?
11 years 33 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
Perfectly good logic, just unethical. Maybe a bit short sighted as in the long run it'll effect the reputation of the school I imagine. Never came across it myself, though I have been told to pass students in final tests, even if they didn't make the grade. I refused.
Not exactly, but I was told that my lesson plans were too detailed for my Chinese co-teachers to read, so I should 'simplify' them. Of course, that meant my planning was crap and the classes weren't as good...
Nope. I haven't been told to teach anything! Not good or bad. I've never had a lesson plan or my curriculum looked at. For all the checking that the administration has done, we could be spending the semesters making origami swans!
Never had that experience but to say the truth i wouldn't't mind it if my boss asks me to slow down at my job............i wish i was a teacher
Corporate classes where all the students work for the same company. If you train them too well, they take their newly acquired English skills and jump ship to some other company. HR only wants us to train them well enough that they can improve their sales quotas internally without crossing over.
Yes. I worked with a company that told me to leave out some important aspects of my IELTS classes so students wouldn't get a 6 or 6.5 on their first attempt. I refused and that lead to quite a few disagreements. I told them I was proud of my success rate and was met with.."That doesn't matter. Get them to take more classes and pay more money!"
ambivalentmace:
have this same problem in shandong , i teach idioms for all the topics and have students who speak well get 7 scores on speaking and the school wants them to get a 5 and try again, but writing is tough to teach chinese students. i only know 3 students that have gotten above 6 in writing in 3 years in china. idioms are not hard but nobody bothers to teach them.
yes..so many times we use to get instructions for marketing well..not delivering well
Last September i started teaching with my newly aquired CELTA skills (I was an IELTS teacher) - I was told to stop teaching by senior staff and go back to 'babysitting'
The exception being the students not in my department who lapped it up and kept asking for more proper classes.
My IELTS/TOEFL place had an agreement with the place that administered the exams. As a result I was told to stop teaching them what they needed to pass so they would have to take the test two or three times and the school would get more money. None of which was passed on to me of course.
