Korean Job Discussion Forums

[AwesomeA]

My school wants me to do a Teacher's Training Manual. Starting from getting off the airplane at Incheon, to normal teaching activities. Can anyone give me a refernce sample???

[EFLtrainer]

How much teaching experience, education and training do you have?

[AwesomeA]

5 years. They want a rough copy by Thursday. Starting from getting off the plane in Incheon to getting back on the plane after the contractis done. Living in Korea as well as teaching. I need something quick to slap together and show them. This is not my main duty, I have about 2 or 3 hours to finish it.

[hubba bubba]

It's a good idea, but I would tell them Thursday is too soon to write a manual of that magnitude.

[happygirl]

That sounds like to full time job. They want you to do this IN ADDITION to teaching your regular load of classes? Do they want any useful information or just a bunch of junk to fill space? This sounds a little unreasonable to me.

And you started this job when?

[faster]

I did something similar, although not even on that scope (focused solely on teaching), and it took probably a good 10-12 hours. It was 14 pages long (plus another 12 pages or so of example documents, tests, lists, homework sheets, evals, etc.).

[bixlerscott]

This is good that they are starting to think in the lines of helping foreigners to do a good job to the best of thier abilities and achieve job satisfaction while thier at it. I know training and professional development are zilch, the Koreans just rely on foreigners helping foreigners. Thats what they told me when I asked for help on understanding everything about teaching and living in Korea at the beginning. No training, briefings, or talking about stuff despite being a newbie, just adds to a newbies culture shock and all that.

Sounds like a complex project that would take me a few hundred hours to write and thats if I had all the knowledge. Wow, can we move a mountain by hand in 3 days? Ask for more time and just work on a rough draft for now.

[ddeubel]

Yeah, that is just TOO BIG a task.

I have attempted some of it but it just builds, builds, grows, grows. So much to know.

I will post some on my site if I get around to organizing it. I do have a New Teacher's Checklist I do like, things they need to get done, both in and out of the office/class in the first week. PM if you want a copy.

If anyone else like faster or others has some associated material. I would be more than happy to put it together and post for everyone. So if you can , send along.

DD

[ttompatz]

[AwesomeA]

Started one today. i finished the Tables of contents and added a few contents. F@#$%^ I know there is info out there that I can mine, but the internet was down today.

[poet13]

I wouldn't do it... It sounds like they are asking you to create a document for publishing.
2 or 3 hours?
get off the plane.
get your luggage.
meet your co-teacher or get on an airport bus to your town.
meet someone there.
see your apartment.
go to school.
meet your new boss.
DO NOT WORK until you have an e-2.
come back from japan.......
I woldn't want to try and write something I wasn't proud to see everywhere. You could end up seeing this document as a government publication, or perhaps they're sending it to the new guy, and you just don't know you've been fired yet....
Seriously though. Another tact, as long as you gave credit where credit was due, could be to just surf Daves posts under keywords such as, "visa run", Help, its my first day". "how do I get to the emnassy in Fukuoka?"
etc..... I don't really know how copyright works, but this is an open forum, and as long as you're not claiming you wrote it yourself, I think you would be good....
Just a thought....

[ttompatz]

[poet13]

".....just need to spend a day to mine it."


friggin optimists everywhere I tell ya, everywhere.....

[ttompatz]

[poet13]

"You could buy me a steak dinner and pick my brains..."

Like I said....friggin optimists everywhere!