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Donkey Beer
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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 Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 2:00 am Post subject: What can anyone tell me about ChildU? |
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| I have received an offer to work at ChildU. I have never heard of this school and would appreciate some feedback. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 3:01 am Post subject: |
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Hello, Donkey Beer!
If it's the same ChildU I'm thinking about, it's a franchise chain.
It's a copy of a home schooling program in the United States,
and it purportedly covers all the major school subjects.
It seems to be an attempt to duplicate the impressive effects an English 학교.
However, that is not possible because an English 학원 does not see its students as many hours per week as an English 학교.
Moreover, the academic material has to be simplified, at least according to one contributor:
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| My problem with it is that although it does have math, the math element is pathetically below the level of the students- I have 13 year olds learning basic additon. They are of the right level in reading and pronunciation, but as math is universal- its kinda ridiculous. |
I once worked for a director who never listened to a word any foreign teacher every told her, but believed everything any textbook salesman ever told her.
One time a ChildU salesman came to her, and got her shelling out bookoos of dinero. She was convinced that she was going to have parents swarming in from all over town and banging on her door.
Last I heard, she was having to downsize in order to stay in business.
Here are some earler threads on ChildU:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=55247&highlight=ChildU
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=39981&highlight=ChildU
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=11287&highlight=ChildU |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 8:33 am Post subject: |
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My first boss used ChildU books. Maybe they've improved.
The books we used were absolute rubbish unfit for teaching a child with. They were completely disorganized, featured unintentional spelling mistakes, and were not even remotely entertaining to students. I wouldn't even use those damn books to light a campfire (because of the chemicals they'd put off) or wipe my rear end with (bad texture).
What does the U even stand for? University? Probably not...It was probably a Korean trying to spell "child-eu" Damn garbage ChildU waste of my first few months as an instructor in Korea drivel.... |
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CPT
Joined: 25 Mar 2007
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Any new info on this school?
A lot of the stuff out there seems to be about the curriculum, which I guess they sell to other schools, but I'm also interested in the conditions at the actual schools. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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Any new info on this school?
A lot of the stuff out there seems to be about the curriculum, which I guess they sell to other schools, but I'm also interested in the conditions at the actual schools. |
Read the contract (or look at the ones that were posted in the contract sticky thread).
Unless they have made major changes recently (and I honestly doubt it) the contract was pure garbage.
As a franchise chain the conditions vary from school to school and NO TWO are the same.
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