many changes at work

As anyone who's read a few of my posts knows, my work has been going through many structural changes. Our old system consisted of the students having one day with a Korean teacher, one day with us and repeat. The problem is that we were moving way to fast for the average student, so while a few students with a gift for languages or one hell of a work ethic did okay, most struggled. The last two months has been a lot of restructuring and the result is that I've spent many a class sitting and watching my students write tests, essays etc. Personally I find the whole idea of keeping kids quiet in a language class very counterproductive and very boring. The result was that I was feeling fairly bored and useless. After talking about it with Robbie I was happy to know that he was feeling the same way. When you come home from work feeling like you've done nothing you feel down, or feel that you are wasting your time/life. So I was really happy when Min, one of my favourite Korean teachers, came in with a new four day schedule. In our new system some kids will have us once every four days, others every two and my 8pm class everyday (which is great as they're one of my favourite groups). The only downside is that I don't teach all my classes in the same room anymore, but I still teach 70% of them in my room 4 so it's not that bad. I also felt like I had a good day yesterday, and that I did something. I'm hoping this continues.