I suspect that the Beanie levels are determined by a similar set of criteria 😉

This is one drama that I wish had a 20-episode run. I doubt it'll get episode extensions.
It was a memorable watch while it lasted.

Same. Finally have time to watch "The Imperial Coroner," and it's hitting the spot for me right now.

Have you looked into the older material or have you seen it already? I have been mining the comments and found some recommendations that are new to me. Also what about checking out films or one off dramas like the KBS specials. If you are a pro this will have already been done sorry for wasting your time but if you are like me coming in late there may be things that are a few years old that are still being talked about now.

I have two Chinese dramas I loved this past year: Stealth Walker with Zheng Yi Cheng (Viki) and I loved loved Killer and Healer. It's only on YouTube (Mango tv) and it's a Republican Era.
Korean, very disappointed lately.
My obsession right now is an 18+ Thai drama "KinnPorsche". BL, Mafia, but the best production I've seen in a long while in any genre by any production company. A combination of comedy, action, emotion. Great writing, cinematography, filmed on location, acting, directing, you name it. Unfortunately it's VIP on IQIYI so you have to pay.

Don't know if you've tried currently airing cdrama "Heroes" on Tencent/WeTV. If you are in the mood for a potentially bad-ending jianghu/wuxia drama.

"Potentially" because it's set in the Song Dynasty when official corruption was rampant. It would be very tough for good guys to do right. Live comment spoilers indicate bad endings for almost everyone, good or bad. Although to not stray from history, some seriously bad people should live on. However, most cdramas are not known to be faithful to original novels. So...

According to social media posts, fight scenes apparently gets better after ep 8, where I stopped. Not quite Hong Kong wuxia back in the day but much better than most fighting within the past few years.

The older generation characters were interesting. The drama kills them off at a good pace.

The main reason that I stopped is I don't like any of the main female characters who are either the pouty-talentless type or the manipulative-conniving type.

Hope that you find some teachers on here who can help.

I am not a teacher but I have found that joining a psychotherapist community online has helped with making links with people with more experience and offer support. There must be an equivalent for kindergarten teachers online or in person that you can connect to before the term starts. I am sure there will be lots of ‘things I wish I knew before starting my post’ types of resources and checklists etc or short cuts to do certain tasks.

Also sites like the website Teachers Pay Teachers, have some great ready made resources free or very cheap.

I'm not sure what exactly you are searching for, but finding some support / inspirational groups may be indeed helpful (though if they would make you feel small and insufficient, get out of them 😉)

As a teacher of 5-7yrs-old kids, here is some general advice from my experience:
- don't expect that everything will go as you planned
- first weeks are usually for getting used to the rules and structure (structure is important!), don't have much higher ambitions
- have clear simple rules and be consequent
- be respectful (I highly recommend books by Elaine Mazlish and Adele Faber like How To Talk So Kids Will Listen... or How To Talk So Kids Can Learn)
- time put into creating good class relationships (some class-building activities) will definitely pay off
- be kind to yourself and don't try to be perfectionist
- don't forget to relax (and switch off), preferably with kdramas 😄

Firstly, congratulations on your job! Working with young kids is a lot of fun. I find myself a better fit with older - elementary and middle school- kids, but this year I've been posted as an auxiliary teacher at kindergarten and learned loads of stuff. My tips are: put a lot of thinking into planning routines, activities and setting up the space. Try to observe more experienced teachers and don't be shy to copy their best tricks and to ask for their help. Prioritize having positive interactions with kids instead of focusing on inadequate behaviors, and don't take things personally when your beautiful planning doesn't work out. There will be crazy moments, there will be frustrating moments, and there will be really rewarding and sweet moments. Kids are awesome

I've taught for 35 years, mostly now at the University level, but for about 10 years at the 7-12 grade level. (In an interesting coincidence with your circumstances I also worked 5 years as a librarian/archivist.) I'm also annoyingly prolix, so I could fill pages and pages with teaching tips. But I'll restrain myself to 4 generalities that I hope will help.

Note that I have never taught students below 7th grade, so I can't help in terms of content/lesson plans. But as @reply1988 says, there are some fantastic Internet resources out there for that.

But here are the generalities:

1. First, keep in mind that EVERY teacher has good days and very bad days. When you have a great day--students are attentive, interactive, fun and you get the sense that you've really taught them something-- you will walk out totally exhilarated. When you have a bad day--student discipline problems that you handle wrong, you botch a lesson, or you have a parent come in and swear at you (that probably won't happen in kindergarten at a private school) -- you feel that you've made a terrible mistake to take the job. But remember, the students generally won't be as aware as you are about the ups and downs. So do your best to keep an even keel, trying of course to duplicate what made the good days so successful.

2. Be flexible. Understand that even the best lesson plans sometimes won't work, or technology will fail, or students will be unusually disruptive. If something unexpected happens, just try to achieve one of the goals that you set out for the day, and then let it go. Sometimes the unexpected is a disaster, other times it works out incredibly well.

3. This will be different in kindergarten, but one of the toughest things for a new teacher in handling a class day to day is maintaining a balance between an atmosphere that stresses authority/order/discipline and one that is friendly/informal/playful. You need some of both, of course, but generally you have to decide your comfort level, and what best fits the teaching persona you want to project. For me it was relaxed and at times silly, but of course at times I paid the price with some failed, rowdy classes. Others, very successful teachers, really ran tight classrooms, which at time were resented, but because they did it in caring way, were respected. I kind of feel either way is fine as long as you are comfortable with it.

4. Most important: retain your enthusiasm and affection for the students. This might seem obvious, but there are going to be times when you are tired, and the students are wild, and you'll (rightfully) say, these young wretches are so ungrateful, and I'm getting paid so little to deal with them! Still, if you remember the formative impact that you will have on all the children you encounter, and try to treat them with respect, showing them that you care, even as you have to yell at those who ignore you or talk back, you'll not only enjoy the...

Congrats, and yeah, kindergartners are hard since so many of them are learning how to "school" for the first time. As others have said, structure, structure, structure. Have very clear places each child will sit (if they're at tables or clusters of desks color-coding them can help with everyday interactions - "Blue table come up and get your art supplies." "Green table line up for lunch." "Oh wow, look what a great job purple table is doing sitting quietly."). Also, with really young kids, master talking like Mr. Rogers - I found standing very still and talking slowly and calmly helped greatly - if you're too agitated or excited, even in a positive way, they tend to get really agitated and excited as well, and then you're herding squirrels (this was a really tough adjustment from working with teenagers where if I didn't come it with a lot of energy they zoned out). Good luck and I hope teaching goes well!

Congratulations on the new job! You and the littles are going to have a great year.

In the meantime, ENJOY your summer!

My advice as a person with young kids (who trained as a teacher, but for older kids) - don’t take it personally when kids are mean to you. Because they will be, but it’s not really anything to do with you as a person.

Congrats, @isthatacorner! I’m only speaking to you as someone who needs to hold the attention span of a 5 year old for 5-10 minutes, but try to look at all your students in the eyes at least once a day. You may pick up on something that’s there (good or bad). The eyes speak volumes and you might be the teacher that figures out if that child is being bullied, abused, or going through a rough time. Alternately, you might be one that he shows his precious rock he found on the way to school, or that he just learned to tie his shoe, or maybe she has a new baby brother at home. I’m sure you’ll be a natural. All the best!!!

That’s a shame that you won’t have time to watch an hour long show for relaxation. I hope things quieten down again soon as self care is important. I watch dramas while exercising or waiting for my car to be washed or in lunch breaks. Glad that you will aim to watch a couple of shows at least.

It truly was a classic and is in my top 10♥️ What other dramas have you got in your top 5-10 dramas?

mine too... R88 is one of the most fav drama (sans last 2 epis... last 2 epi dont exist for me)
i always wanted to tell her too but used to forget...
@reply1988

I have just gone on your fan wall and you were not joking about how much of a fan of Reply 1988 you are! I will have a proper read through with snacks🙂

I love her podcast too and listened to that episode while driving to class yesterday. Hope you feel better!

So glad you got to change your mood before you got home so it didn’t contaminate your special place.
Looking forward to listening to this podcast now while killing time waiting for Shooting stars to be released with subtitles.

K-dramas in general offer such a great escape! Thanks for alerting me this podcast!

Just listened to the podcast what an excellent episode I can see how it lifted the mood. Thanks for sharing the gift of hearing others dissecting the reasons why they hate the endings.

It looks like Evie will be on a break for a while so it’s great timing that we discovered the podcast now because we have time to catch up on the back episodes.

This is an interesting topic and I realised when I googled it that I had seen a few of the classics.

I looked it up as a search because I wasn’t sure but couldn’t find any information on the age difference but I think the woman is older in Good doctor. They are both doctors in training she is his senior so I assume she is older not sure how much more. There is a mix of genres in this show. I discovered it recently as a recommendation and quite liked it.

Encounter there is definitely an age difference and status difference he doesn’t become more successful than her. This is a more straight forward romance.

I hear your voice the age and stage of life means he does not become more successful than her. This also has multiple genres.

I have no recommendations, since I'm sure you've seen all the ones that I have, but it strikes me that The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry and Search:WWW, although not technically pure romances, leave the older woman in a relatively successful place.

I like the noona romances for the same reason you do--the woman is portrayed in a more equal, even more powerful position than is usual.

What drives me crazy about them though, is not that the women gives up this position--even if the man becomes successful, the women generally keep their jobs and often don't even marry the younger guy. Its that the women often spend the whole show obsessing about the age difference.
When older men are romancing younger women in kdramas, sometimes they get teased by the younger woman but their worry about the age gap never becomes a main theme of the show, at least in the shows I've seen.

So its the noona's worry about the age gap that tends to undermine the message of women's strength and independence for me. Also, I have to admit, as someone older, I'm very sensitive to people treating age as handicap!

What's up, Fox meets your criteria and still is one of my favorites. First drama I watched where I truly understood the societal difficulties of a noona romance.

Have you watched I Hear Your Voice? I warn you though ML starts off as High School student.

The one which popped into my head was I Can Hear Your Voice. I mean, technically she’s more successful Then again, he can hear her thoughts… haha

I can only remember the ones I didn't like lol - Something in the Rain, Temperature of Love, Sunbae..., Encounter, Now We're Breaking Up, Thirty-Nine, etc.

Would second I Can Hear Your Voice if you haven't seen it already. Another reasonably good one is Witch's Romance - becomes a bit melodramatic towards the end but the OTP and the lead's best friend are great.

Definitively Encounter would be the one.
The Chinese one: rational life is also a good example.

Have fun watching

Cdrama—Find Yourself, I’m pretty sure she stays his boss throughout.

Kdrama—When the Camellia blooms. There is no difference in the levels of their employment or power and it’s not even really part of the plot.

I like Seven Tan as Ning Meng, she didn't turn her character to be halpless, happy go lucky, immature heroine. And not one fiber in her that is overacting. Watching her is like watching someone via CCTV, just a person going through her daily life with its up and down. So I understand the hype about her while she doesn't have the conventional C actress beauty ie Reba, YangMi, ZLY.
Saddly Master of My Own loses its romance momentum and too focus on SFL and SML.

Glad to hear she is safe and you are all sound after such a scare.

So stressful when our children are really sick. Hoping for a much healthier winter for your family.

There are a lot of super strength bugs going round at the moment so glad your precious one recovered well.

Same thing happened to my friend and they fobbed her off with tests and ‘we will see you in a week when the results come out,’ with a two year old that’s not an option any parent wants to be offered. She ended up in hospital the next day and thankfully made a speedy recovery too.