could you be a DOS?

DOS drone

Have you got what it takes to be a DOS? Or will you be sharing a cramped room with a dozen ghastly colleagues and teaching 30 hours a week for the rest of your life? Do this quiz and find out which is your fate.

Click on a to choose an answer.

1. What do you think of teachers?

  1. They are noble, selfless professionals.
  2. On the whole, they are great.
  3. Some of them are OK.
  4. They are a lazy bunch of incompetent whingers.

2. What do you think of school owners?

  1. They are sharks.
  2. They are bastardly sharks.
  3. They are tightfisted bastardly sharks.
  4. It is all true, but I still love them.

3. A teacher rings in sick with a stubbed toe. What do you say?

  1. Oh, you poor thing, is there anything I can do?
  2. Couldn’t you try teaching sitting down?
  3. Hmm, I’ll have to look at the conditions of service manual.
  4. Cut it off and get into class.

4. What is your definition of a good teacher?

  1. One who can explain the present perfect.
  2. One who keeps the students happy.
  3. One who has loads of brilliant ideas.
  4. One who turns up on time, never goes sick and does not bother you.

5. A job applicant does not want to teach teenagers. Which lie is best?

  1. You won’t have to if you don’t want to.
  2. You might have to do it occasionally.
  3. None of our students are teenagers.
  4. You know lots of them fancy older Westerners?

6. What do you say to a teacher whose crap lesson you have just observed?

  1. That was crap.
  2. How do you think it went?
  3. That was the worst lesson I’ve ever seen or even heard about in over 20 years of teaching.
  4. Brilliant! Wonderful! Just one little thing...

7. Which should be the largest room in a school?

  1. One of the classrooms.
  2. The teachers’ room.
  3. The study centre.
  4. The DOS’s private lavatory.

8. Which statement best sums up how you feel about becoming a DOS?

  1. I am still just a member of the team.
  2. It is a step up the ELT career ladder.
  3. It is a brilliant skive and there is more money.
  4. I just love the power and the status.

9. How do you feel about workshops?

  1. I hold them every week and they are compulsory.
  2. They are useful ways of developing teachers’ skills.
  3. We have them occasionally, if there is a visiting speaker.
  4. Zzzz.

10. Which book should be required reading for DOSes?

  1. The ELT Manager’s Handbook, by Graham Impey and Nic Underhill
  2. Management in English Language Teaching, by Ron White et al.
  3. The Prince (1513), by Niccolò Machiavelli
  4. The Book of the Courtier (1528), by Baldassare Castiglione

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