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Polish Organizational Skills [83]
Very good at the 2 schools I work for. As for the schools I worked for, hellbent on profit. I hate when people are in teaching for a quick buck, it's not what it is about. The teachers are the ones who carry the school and draw the punters in.
Well.... I'm sure your school are OK but I've been working in a university in the UK for a couple of Summers and the level of organisation is far higher over there than in the schools in Poland. It really isn't comparable - Everything from the organisation of the timetable to the management of the teaching staff is done on time and with no cockups.
Uni courses in Poland consist of a semester based on a coursebok that has more often than not been given as a set of free copies to the department. The content of the book is divided into 15 weeks. that is the upper limit of Polish educational management.
I've worked in Uni departments in Poland where the staff design end-of-semester speaking tests 10 mins before the exam by photocopying pages from Proficiency books. While they are assessing the speaking, they mark the written tests to save time. The marks themselves are arbitrary - "What do you think of this one?" "Hmmm better than the last one but she never speaks in my grammar lessons" "Three then?" "Three and a half" ... and so on.
Truely, every day I wake up in the morning believing I've seen the lowest standards, the most slapdash work practices and the greatest contempt for any kind of professional behaviour and every day, I am pleasantly surprised as, once more, my expectations for the following day are lowered further.
