Comments on: Musings on Faculty Meetings http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2009/09/29/musings-on-faculty-meetings/ Writing about China, law, technology & sundry other matters. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:51:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian H. http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2009/09/29/musings-on-faculty-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-96109 Brian H. Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:05:54 +0000 http://www.walterhutchens.net/blog/archives/2009/09/29/musings-on-faculty-meetings/#comment-96109 Being new to teaching, I can hardly say that I have enough experience to comment on the matter but when you mentioned how your faculty meetings seemed slightly too detailed I couldn't help but to feel kinship. Our location manager (I work for a franchised, after school-type English school in China) recently held a "workshop" in which the foreign teachers (all four of us, including the location manager) presented a very condensed version of one of our two hour lessons. The whole point is that all of my colleagues (including about 10 Chinese co-teachers) would be able to give feedback on our lessons. The problem was that the feedback portion (which comprised about 90% of the 3 hour workshop) tended to be repetitive. Basically, every foreign teacher got to hear the same comments 13 times, phrased almost identically. I have four days off during the week in which I have absolutely no work obligations and I'm not complaining per se, I just hate to have my time wasted for no reason other than poor foresight by my manager. I imagine it's much worse for you seeing how you have tenfold the obligations that I do. Anyways, I think if your colleagues sat through your B-law class, I'm sure they'd tend to appreciate the business school a little more. I hope everything turns out for the better in the matter. -Brian Being new to teaching, I can hardly say that I have enough experience to comment on the matter but when you mentioned how your faculty meetings seemed slightly too detailed I couldn’t help but to feel kinship.

Our location manager (I work for a franchised, after school-type English school in China) recently held a “workshop” in which the foreign teachers (all four of us, including the location manager) presented a very condensed version of one of our two hour lessons. The whole point is that all of my colleagues (including about 10 Chinese co-teachers) would be able to give feedback on our lessons. The problem was that the feedback portion (which comprised about 90% of the 3 hour workshop) tended to be repetitive. Basically, every foreign teacher got to hear the same comments 13 times, phrased almost identically. I have four days off during the week in which I have absolutely no work obligations and I’m not complaining per se, I just hate to have my time wasted for no reason other than poor foresight by my manager. I imagine it’s much worse for you seeing how you have tenfold the obligations that I do.

Anyways, I think if your colleagues sat through your B-law class, I’m sure they’d tend to appreciate the business school a little more. I hope everything turns out for the better in the matter.

-Brian

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