The greedy, just for profit education system in cambodia.
Alexandra, I wish to qualify your, "No".
There certainly are students in Cambodia keen to bump up their computer skills. If you are a great teacher, you can find interested students and quite likely an interested school.
Putting together a series of courses that could pay an expat a living wage would not be easy. Especially with all in-person schooling closed at the moment, but if you had limited expectations and mostly wanted to do it for fun, try!
There certainly are students in Cambodia keen to bump up their computer skills. If you are a great teacher, you can find interested students and quite likely an interested school.
Putting together a series of courses that could pay an expat a living wage would not be easy. Especially with all in-person schooling closed at the moment, but if you had limited expectations and mostly wanted to do it for fun, try!
Those jobs are already filled by cheap working Asians. Cambodians also know and use Khan Academy and alike and the whole internet is full of Indians teaching for free.Guest9999 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 4:07 pmThere certainly are students in Cambodia keen to bump up their computer skills. If you are a great teacher, you can find interested students and quite likely an interested school.
Nobody needs a teacher who thinks he deserves to be expensive only because he is white.
Cambodian software developers all have one thing in common: nobody had a white teacher or felt they needed one.
You would earn more money working for McDonald’s in your own country.
Why are the Indians teaching for free?
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All schools shut officially... this Khmer Times article shows how the public do not understand online teaching, too.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50827832/a ... suspended/
... The article states that local parents feel the teachers are having "an easy time" teaching online. Well, speaking from experience, neither mode is actually easier than the other... hmmmm, I would say that expats are enduring pay cuts while being expected to perform miracles online. Not easy for them to suddenly leap online without an organized set of slide PPTs, or some other prepared materials to focus the students ...and actually help them learn something. Without readymade materials for online teaching at hand, it isn't an "easy time" for any teacher. Another thing, the sad thing is, so many kids cannot afford even smartphones, let alone computers to do their studying...
I have taught in the classroom in Cambodia at a university, and also more lately online, but teaching kids outside Cambodia... I think I prefer live in-person teaching. With online, the teacher needs to be a lot more choreographed, and that pacing takes spontaneous skills, wow... So, it is certainly easier teaching in the live classroom, especially for younger students... and no matter the age group, in the real classroom, you can take more time to deliver information and discuss things... (of course, before I was teaching three-hour reading lectures in English literature, sociology, history... now it is intensive 50 minute lessons packed full of information processing, and it is quite a challenge... not difficult, but one has to focus non-stop all the time. . . Live in-person teaching has more natural pacing and rhythm, and less lightning pace required... lol...)
Oh well... How long will it be before things go back to normal?
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50827832/a ... suspended/
... The article states that local parents feel the teachers are having "an easy time" teaching online. Well, speaking from experience, neither mode is actually easier than the other... hmmmm, I would say that expats are enduring pay cuts while being expected to perform miracles online. Not easy for them to suddenly leap online without an organized set of slide PPTs, or some other prepared materials to focus the students ...and actually help them learn something. Without readymade materials for online teaching at hand, it isn't an "easy time" for any teacher. Another thing, the sad thing is, so many kids cannot afford even smartphones, let alone computers to do their studying...
I have taught in the classroom in Cambodia at a university, and also more lately online, but teaching kids outside Cambodia... I think I prefer live in-person teaching. With online, the teacher needs to be a lot more choreographed, and that pacing takes spontaneous skills, wow... So, it is certainly easier teaching in the live classroom, especially for younger students... and no matter the age group, in the real classroom, you can take more time to deliver information and discuss things... (of course, before I was teaching three-hour reading lectures in English literature, sociology, history... now it is intensive 50 minute lessons packed full of information processing, and it is quite a challenge... not difficult, but one has to focus non-stop all the time. . . Live in-person teaching has more natural pacing and rhythm, and less lightning pace required... lol...)
Oh well... How long will it be before things go back to normal?
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
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Never is a long time. The world has recovered from much much worse situations than this before, and will do so again.
It feels bad because we are all snowflakes today.
It’s bad. It’s getting better and all will be fine.
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Things were not the same after any war just ask the survivors. Things were not the same after 9 -11 ask anyone who had taken a flight before and then after. We, you and every sensible person will be wearing a mask for quite some more time. These masks will slowly become more sophisticated. We will be getting jabbed every year, we will need a certificate to prove we have been vacinated to travel, the list goes on. Adapt and survive and recover but not the same, ever again.
k440, something to do when you're pissed.
If the social distance and mask wearing rules become permanent, doesn’t that mean that our immune systems will gradually become weaker? We may not catch as many colds as before but when we do catch them will they affect us harder than before?
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
Ok mr Pedant. By definition they can never be the same again.
Things got better after the wars. Because that is what happens - humanity progresses, health improves, fewer people get hungry. Longevity increases.
This is a minor blip in historical terms. It just doesn’t feel like it because we are living in the middle of it.
Things got better after the wars. Because that is what happens - humanity progresses, health improves, fewer people get hungry. Longevity increases.
This is a minor blip in historical terms. It just doesn’t feel like it because we are living in the middle of it.
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Agree on the minor blip thing but has humanity progressed? America is still dealing with its slave trade past just as the UK is dealing with its colonial past. The improvement in health is true but only for the richer nations and how does that mean a progression in humanity if the poor and weak are left behind. Fewer people are getting hungry, bollocks ! And the living longer is a much bigger part of the problem than most would like to admit.
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horace wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 11:24 pmAgree on the minor blip thing but has humanity progressed? America is still dealing with its slave trade past just as the UK is dealing with its colonial past. The improvement in health is true but only for the richer nations and how does that mean a progression in humanity if the poor and weak are left behind. Fewer people are getting hungry, bollocks ! And the living longer is a much bigger part of the problem than most would like to admit.
Yes, the States is dealing with it but the last time I checked slavery was a historical issue and no longer exists in the US. Ergo, progress.
Longevity rates are going up all around the world. Ergo, health levels are improving all around the world.
More and more people are lifted out of poverty all around the world every year. These are not wild claims - they are statistical facts. In China alone hundreds of millions have moved from poverty in the last 30 years. Ergo, progress.
That doesn’t mean poverty and hunger don’t exist. Of course they do.
But things are getting better. It simply can’t be denied.
Here for example is a good piece on the decline of poverty in the last generation.
https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
As for health, it’s a no brainer. While diseases like smallpox and polio have disappeared. Smoking levels are much lower. Life expectancy is up all around the world. All of this is fact, not emotive perception.
https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
As for health, it’s a no brainer. While diseases like smallpox and polio have disappeared. Smoking levels are much lower. Life expectancy is up all around the world. All of this is fact, not emotive perception.
Because they are benevolent people, happy to help and support those hard working eager Cambodian students
What you say is valid only for people who like to sheepishly follow orders because they falsely believe it makes them safe. Fortunately, not everyone is like that. Anti-lockdown protests in London yesterday give a hope and show the way. It’s time to take freedom back. The strength is in numbers: the more people stop obeying the masters, the sooner normality returns. People are stronger than masters if they fight back.
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