Life / Polish Organizational Skills [83]


Oh, yeah - I was working for place who used to do that kind of thing regularly. The owner apologised to us for not paying but he 'didn't have the moeny because he took his wife to Paris for the weekend'.

It's a shame that teaching has become so price led. The problem was all the horrid pikey schools offering the low quality rubbish served up in state schools at bargain bucket knock down prices. Most students go for this because they don't know any better (and most of them don't really want to learn anyway). If the prices were higher, the would be more pressure on the teachers and schools to perform and they would have to be more organised and efficient.

I know what you mean about the teachers working long hours though. One of the problems at my school is that the director has to run the school AND teach a full timetable. What nonsense is this?

Life / Polish Organizational Skills [83]

Feel free man - it's a discussion forum :)

Life / Polish Organizational Skills [83]


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.

Life / Polish Organizational Skills [83]

What about the school managers / coordinators?

Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]


A lot of friends say that but I find it kills the flavour. I prefer +4

Life / Polish Organizational Skills [83]


I can only speak with authority about teachers but they are generally pretty dreadful

Why?

1) Apathy - Nothing we do makes a difference so why bother
2) Resentment - I don't get rewarded so why should I make an effort
3) Lack of time - Paradoxically, they do not have time to sit down and organise themselves
4) Ignorance - They have never been taught to organise themselves. the results of a crap education system that is perpetuated by teachers like themselves.

Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]

Should one drink vodka at room temperature, 'frozen' at -20 or chilled at +4 ?

btw, for me - absolvent, luksusowa and of course zubrowka

Language / Word order and swearing in Polish [44]


Well now you mention it, it could also be emphasis ie "What are you doing"? Rather than someone else"

Work / Would previous experience be necessary to teach english in poznan [22]


It could be. Let's see what's on the net

eslbase.com/courses/poland/

I see it costs about 800 pounds to do your CELTA at IH Krakow. Nice city and you'd be able to work on your Polish while you're over there. I don't gno if that covers acommodation but it shouldn't be that bad if you share with someone else for the month. Food's cheap

Unfortunately there are no links for Poznan courses from the page but maybe try IH Poznan?

Yeah sorry - when I said 'try before you buy' I meant you can get a feel for the job and the lifestyle before you enter fully into the white slave trade. You'll be able to get some pointers on what to look for and what to be careful of when signing up with a school. That kind of stuff!


And working as a teacher in Poland is probably not the best way to go about this...


Please...... don't. These courses are pretty much worthless from what I've heard. Some only allow you to teach the other course candidates in make believe lessons. NOTHING can prepare you for the terror of your first couple of weeks in the job better than getting your arm right up the didactic u-bend on a proper course full of real, clueless students. Don't touch the internet. you're throwing money away if you do.

Work / Would previous experience be necessary to teach english in poznan [22]


Why not look for a TEFL course in Poland over Summer? that way you get to 'try before you buy'. Some of them are pretty good.

Otherwise, you may well find that teaching qualifications are not that necessary to get a basic job in a private school or even to find private lessons to tide you over - You can probably scoop up 2000 zloty a month on cash in hand privates and yuo can get by on that.

The better teaching jobs will go to people with experience and qualifications, agreed, but this is more because they have shown they are safe employment bets rather than that they are good at their jobs. Teaching in Poland is a price led market, not the qualiity-led market it should be.

Good luck!

PS All those schools sound pikey - I don't know anything about them but the names are just so .... pikey

Language / Word order and swearing in Polish [44]

It feels more natural to me too. In English the swear word often gets placed before the stressed syllable / word and I was wondering if it coul dbe the same in Polish.

Language / Word order and swearing in Polish [44]

Well, I think fuck in sentence 2 intensifies the 'what' whereas in sentences 1 and 3 it's more like a seperate sentence - "Fuck! What...." and "...doing? Fuck!" Would I be on the right track?

Language / Word order and swearing in Polish [44]

Looks to me more like 'What the fuck are you doing!', while the others are "What are you doing, you fucker"

Language / Word order and swearing in Polish [44]

But there must be a difference if they are different sentences

Life / Streaming online Polish TV [85]

Try imvite
telewizja.com

Love / POLISH WOMEN ARE PROMISCUOUS? DISCUSS. [153]


And what the frick would you know about what Jesus said?


It sounds to me that you enjoy dipping in to whichever religion or ideology serves you best when you need to justify your funamentally out of touch world view. Try getting out more and meeting people in future

And who deleted my last post of Lodz being a wnker?

Love / POLISH WOMEN ARE PROMISCUOUS? DISCUSS. [153]


If you had any concrete facts or ideas to back up this ridiculous diatribe I might actually start taking you seriously.


Good point

Love / POLISH WOMEN ARE PROMISCUOUS? DISCUSS. [153]


Sexual frustration - 28 years living in a flat with your parents. Imagine that. The only place you can explore your blossoming womanhood in the back of a Fiat 126 on a housing estate. Then you go abroad and you get your own place. I'm not surprised some of them go off the rails a bit.

Life / Tips on tipping in Poland [45]


Not usually a tipping occasion but if he's been chatty or get my arse out of trouble than I slip him 10 per cent. When I first came to Krakow years ago, the taxi driver got me to my flight on time and I tipped him about 50% but he was a really nice guy.


If he's surly, no


10% Maybe more if they try to talk to me


At least 10% depending on service

UK, Ireland / Britain... What the Poles did for us. [444]


Good point!

immigrant - one who comes to live in a country
migrant - one who moves to another country temporarily, usually for work

UK, Ireland / Britain... What the Poles did for us. [444]

The first mistake a lot of racists make is oversimplifying immigration and turning it into an us and them issue:




This is usually because they are poorly informed about the situation and don't get the bigger picture. Here are the main points -

1) Without immigrant labour, Britain would be truely fuked - right up to the pyloric sphincter. The building industry in Ireland for instance, would not exist without a cheap, flexible pool of immigrant labour to draw on.

2) Most immigrants take short-term or seasonal low-paid jobs which a resident would find impossible to live on. The vast majority of Polish workers are therefore not in competition with the native workforce.

3) The reason people prefer Polish / Lithuanian etc tradesmen is because they are cheaper. If British tradesmen drop their prices to something realistic then they would pick up as much trade as the immigrants. If the customers bought British then the immigrant tradesman wouldn't have a market. There is no racial / national issue here because the customers can't give a toss who is selling them the service.

4) Britain is a country of immigrants. Saying that Pakistani inhabitants of Londonistan are not Brits doesn't hold water any more. Most of them have been born in Britain and are as British as John Bull. I would go further and say that they are more British, sinch their parents have had to fight for their citizenship while most roast-beef eating, union-jack waving true Brits were simply born British by accident.

What does need to be done about it? Start cracking down on the employers. Make it so that they have to employ native and immigrant labour on the same terms and then you'll see more natives being employed. The immigrant workforce will be treated better too. But while the government wants to keep big business happy, keep the money flowing through the banks and ultimately keep Brits stuffed with cheap consumer goods, you will continue to have an immigrant underclass who lives in bedsits, eats junk food and works 12 hour shiifts in factories, while the indolent True Brits sit on their backsides and complain about them.

Life / If I could introduce something from my country into Poland, I would.... [175]

Oh ho ho? What's this? Putting out feelers Shelly? Finding out whether the thinking woman's beefcake is attached? Sorry but I have to say I am - to a woman. Be strong. I'm flattered, honestly I am, but we have to remain friends. Of sorts. Ships that pass in the night.

Life / If I could introduce something from my country into Poland, I would.... [175]

Doesn't Spain also do gay marriage, homo?

Life / If I could introduce something from my country into Poland, I would.... [175]

All the Poles on benefit in the UK
A basic sense of respect for one's fellow man
ShelleyS
Korean food

Life / If I could introduce something from my country into Poland, I would.... [175]


?????????

I hope you mean the 1970s pop group

Love / What do Polish guys think of Irish girls? [187]

The way you all like dancing with your arms by your sides is really sexy

Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]


To give a good service, the school needs to be well organised and coordinated with managers who know what they're doing. Without clear direction, decent materials, proper programmes of study and decent pay and conditions, you don't have a school, you have a travelling circus selling 90 minute slots with dancing bears.

Travel / Sleeper train Poland to Holland, the Jan Kiepura [13]

Not bad reminds me of my days in the joint

Life / "Londynczycy" - new Polish soap [62]


Sorry run me through that again