Korean Job Discussion Forums

aphong420 · Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Location: KOREAAAAAAH

Alright, this is the second day and still.... no one's told me anything about a schedule or what I'm suppose to be doing. I usually like working harder than is neccesary (the first few months) to put on a good impression ... but I'm pretty sure all that anyone's seeing me do is browse the internet.

Any suggestions? Anyone else in the same situation?

Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

Yes, me. I came in to find out I have no classes this week.

rothkowitz · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

Take up smoking.Take a longer lunch.Have a quick stroll around the neighbourhood to familiarise yourself.Leave a little early.

Heaps to do.

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

You mean there's a lack of-
organization Rolling Eyes

structure

communication Rolling Eyes

common sense Rolling Eyes

from the management? I'm not exactly shocked.

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

Me too. I had to laugh this morning when I asked my new supervisor about my schedule. No one had told her that she had to draw one up for me. Laughing

ilovebdt

Jacquie · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Location: Chungnam

I got my schedule - which I start next week - 7 classes all week, none on Friday (so far). I am thinking of making a little website or something...perhaps doing an online/correspondance degree....

aphong420 · Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Location: KOREAAAAAAH

Apparently my school is all about "ask and ye shall recieve". I finally got my schedule..... I teach 20 classes - 5 more than the next closest teacher. Luckily, I'll have a co-teacher with me in every class, with split duties.

Now what to do with this boredom. I don't officially start teaching until next Monday.

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

I have a schedule. It was pretty nice and then it needed to be changed (according to the education board) to give me more hours. But the Korean english teachers decided that rather than giving me 2 more hrs of 2nd grade classes, they would give me 2 more hours of workshop a week for english teachers.

Admittedly they mentioned that half the teachers can't make it to the workshop and that it may include other teachers who speak english but don't teach it. So I have some serious thinking about how to approach this in a way that will get the koreans speaking more and me speaking less.

Its rather a funny situation here.

Boodleheimer · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:01 pm Post subject:

i'm going to get my schedule on a day-by-day basis this week. fun!

formerflautist · Joined: 30 May 2006

I was told this afternoon. My students caught me playing online Poker. Oh well, give me a schedule and I'll plan something.

lastat06513 · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject:

for the first 3 years of teaching in Korea, I was only told what time to start teaching and what kind of classes to teach (IE, they are intermediate students, advance students, etc.)- nothing else to go by other than a textbook shoved in my face and they said "teach from this."

For the first seven months, I was like "What am I going to do?"

I would talk to them, make them laugh, everything and I was losing students....

But I learned several important things about teaching from watching chinese English teachers on Channel [V] (