3rd August
After yesterday’s rant about the Kazakh education system, I thought I would give a little more information regarding my situation, and what is expected of teachers here.
The most obvious difference is that teachers are expected to pay for all their own school supplies, be it chalk or paper. While is undoubtedly saves waste and theft of school resources, in my experience it just means that teachers do less in the way of creative planning. Why make posters for the room if you have to pay for it yourself etc. The same goes for photocopying and printing. There is only 1 photocopier at my school, in the director’s room, and it has proved a huge hassle to get anything copied.
Sorry if my obvious frustration is rather negative and I hope my mood improves, but its proving hard. Although the new English teacher did appear today, so that’s a start. I hope she will be good to work with, and listen to my suggestions. A focusing of my energies onto only those things that I can control is needed, its just hard to do, when so much that I cant control effects me!
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