Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Yu_Bum_suk]

What exactly do you do for your winter 'camp'? At my school, we work a skeleton staff during the winter. Most of the teachers come in for a few weeks, the junior teachers more so, the senior teachers less so. We run a morning schedule of 5 lessons for the grade 1 and 2 HS students and then in the afternoon there are a few specialty classes. I'm just put in the rotation along with all the other Korean teachers, maths, Korean lit., and science teachers included. The PE and vocational subject teachers don't teach anything but sometimes are assigned extra duties.

I get the impression that some teachers have to put on their own special programmes?

[ilovebdt]

I run two English conversation classes after regular morning classes.
They are optional and whoever is keen signs up for them.

This vacation I have about 7 first graders and 6 second graders. I like these classes because I can actually get to remember some of the students names and faces.

ilovebdt

[Pak Yu Man]

I'll be teaching 2 hours of science class and 2 hours of hapkido.

Why would foreigners do the same as Koreans? Do something fun. If anyone teaches from a book they need a smack upside the head.

What are you good at? Whatever it is...teach that.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[crazylemongirl]

I have to come up with my own stuff. The school doesn't care what I do as long as there is paperwork. So we are cooking no-bake cookies, watching movies, playing boardgames, and doing lots of arts and music based stuff.

[SPINOZA]

I show up with a bunch of stuff, explain to co-teacher what their duties are to be (it's a dictatorship) and then we begin. Co-teacher helps out as much as poss.

Gonna do a song per day, game per day, more formal study per day, some youtube-type stuff, some cartoons and maybe DVDs. It'll be mostly my own stuff but I've got some textbooks I can steal from it necessary.

[Horangi Munshin]

I was encouraged to do 'special' stuff like cooking or math in English, yeah right math in English.

I've been doing games and projects. For the 1st and 2nd grades (elementary school by the way) we did a clothes lesson. Reviewed the names then played a game dressing up and eating chocolate. If a students rolled a 6 on a die they got to put on various items of clothing and cut a piece of chocolate off the block with a fork and knife. Students had to change when someone else threw a 6.

I'll be doing Olympics too. With the higher grades I've done team building and a Magazine cover, so far. Will use a movie and play lots of games too.

[nautilus]

I teach grades 3-6 for 6 days each, 2 lessons a day. Plus 14 parents/other teachers classes.

its relatively simple because I have a big store of activities and have developed my own english progression system.So I just make my own plans and adapt them to the situation. A big part of what I do involves the projector and computer using pictures and exercises. So far so good...

I have no co-teacher this winter (shes at a training course)but its not really needed as I have a good handle on my classes.

When you play at this level....