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Q: does your school demand that you hand over any of your own teaching materials?
I have noticed that more of the jobs posted online have said that any materials you use in class be handed over to the School. Because i prepare a lot of my class material (PPT's etc) in my free time, i consider it mine, as i have put in a lot of time to have decent visuals as part of my classes. I have been asked to let other teachers use my material (that is copy it) but i have not allowed this to be done. Do you let other teachers use your own prepared materials? EDIT: i had some cool teaching PPT's i used for teaching children and some songs. Teachers would sit in my class just to copy them. One asked me for my PPT's but i said i was in a hurry......
10 years 45 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
No. I've been to one school that wanted the teachers to come up with a lesson plan. I don't use lesson plans most of the teaching I do is free teaching....I use lots of flashcards and games nothing to copy there.
have this problem all the time, i usually give them pdf files that are similiar from the internet, they dont even bother to check
many schools copy your teaching style and then get rid of the foreigner
the chinese call this frying the foreigner in a pan like an egg
i actually have had to kick out teachers recording my classes and confiscate recorders on students were a teacher paid the student to record my writing class so she could take the writing class away from me the next semester.
i dont play fair so about a year after this event, i arranged her demise for being to amorous with her students in class, revenge is best served cold and unexpected.
I always hand over a skeleton outline, which is of absolutely no use to anybody. The lesson is in my private notes, or in my head.
Not heard of this before. Nasty. But not a big surprise since everything else gets copied here. In a lot of contracts both here and in other countries your employer technically owns any brilliant ideas you come up with (although it depends on the wording of course). In reality though they can't prove anything and any decent court would throw out an employer that tried to take ownership of every idea you ever have.
sorrel:
I am seeing this more on jobs advertised for foreign teachers......the writing is on the wall (and it will be copied !)
happywanderer:
Yeah nasty - not only teachers though, I've come across this before, usually with regard to patents and stuff 
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happywanderer:
I say give them nothing. As ambivalentmace said they'll take your best work and then chuck you out, replace with a muppet that can't pronounce half the words on the slides and then have the children study the slides in silence.
ambivalentmace:
80 percent of my students last year passed the ielts for canada with an average of 5.5 for all 4 parts, while this does not impress me, i feel i did a bad job nonetheless but these are grade 2 high school students who will finish the last year of high school in canada, apparently i will have guest teachers visiting my class in september to help improve english speaking in other high schools in the area, but i suspect they are ielts teachers wanting to observe my classes, never trust anybody or anything here, i just got the email today about the visitors. i am actually surprised they bothered to inform me but it is a little more academic in high schools than universities here.
One school I worked for tried. I let them know this was intellectual property. As such I wanted big money. End of request. Also the Chinese are catching on to this. So read your contract.
