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artyom
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 Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:06 am Post subject: Yale Language Institute, Daegu |
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| Hi, I know that there have been numerous posts about this institute ( http://yaleedu.net/sHTML/sChop/ ) in the past but I found most posts were a little old. I have just graduated from university and completed my CertTESOL. I'd be interested to hear opinions of the schools at the moment or any comments. Thanks |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| A few people consider it a bit over-rated, but it generally has the best reputation of any English 'hagwon' in Daegu and would probably be an excellent first-time position. Just be careful about the name, though. I believe there's a second institution in Daegu that uses the name 'Yale' which isn't nearly as good. |
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artyom
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| I believe there's a second institution in Daegu that uses the name 'Yale' which isn't nearly as good. |
Yer, that's what I had heard, the one I was looking at is this one http://yaleedu.net/sHTML/sChop/ Does anyone know whether this is the 'good' one?
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| artyom wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| I believe there's a second institution in Daegu that uses the name 'Yale' which isn't nearly as good. |
Yer, that's what I had heard, the one I was looking at is this one http://yaleedu.net/sHTML/sChop/ Does anyone know whether this is the 'good' one?
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Yes, that's the good one. I've known teachers who worked at the Main and Beomo campuses who liked their jobs. I'm not sure about the other campuses. |
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artyom
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:33 am Post subject: |
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| Ok thanks for your help! |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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| They work you hard, but pretty much leave you alone if you're doing it right. That is the best thing about Yale. They changed their pay scale at the beginning of this year, so I'm not sure how they pay these days, but it used to be pretty good. |
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KYC
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crescent
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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oops.
Last edited by crescent on Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:06 am; edited 4 times in total |
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dmbfan
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:48 am Post subject: |
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| Check your PM. Yale is not what it used to be. |
As it just so happens, I have been offered a positio with Yale. I just printed off the contract, in fact.
So, if you would be so kind, please send me any information you have to my PM box.
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dmbfan
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for the PM.
YIKES!!!!! |
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ginger7
Joined: 17 Jun 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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if you want to be in Daegu, just work for MoonKkang.
best English academy in Daegu with amazing support. the others just seem to be a gamble. |
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regicide
Joined: 01 Sep 2006
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Working Saturday? I did my first year and vowed to never do that again. And for only 2.3! If you did work Saturdays, you should be able to pick up another million, at least. So you should be making well over 3 million in that case. |
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jazblanc77
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:44 am Post subject: |
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| ginger7 wrote: |
if you want to be in Daegu, just work for MoonKkang.
best English academy in Daegu with amazing support. the others just seem to be a gamble. |
I can't believe that you are recommending Moonkkang over Yale! Why don't you recommend Youngmoon while you're at it?
Yale, Moonkkang, and Youngmoon are the biggest schools in Daegu, but that doesn't make them better than any other franchise or hagwon. The main thing is to do your research and make sure that whichever school you are interested in, you understand what you are getting yourself into.
One thing that I will say about Yale though, is that you have A LOT more freedom over what you teach than at either Moonkkang or Youngmoon which are both overly dictatorial over the content. Working at those schools also gets very boring, very fast since the same lesson plans are recycled over and over again, even spanning over different levels. |
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dmbfan
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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I can't believe that you are recommending Moonkkang over Yale! Why don't you recommend Youngmoon while you're at it?
Yale, Moonkkang, and Youngmoon are the biggest schools in Daegu, but that doesn't make them better than any other franchise or hagwon. The main thing is to do your research and make sure that whichever school you are interested in, you understand what you are getting yourself into.
One thing that I will say about Yale though, is that you have A LOT more freedom over what you teach than at either Moonkkang or Youngmoon which are both overly dictatorial over the content. Working at those schools also gets very boring, very fast since the same lesson plans are recycled over and over again, even spanning over different levels.
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I dont't know.........at first I was pretty pumped up about the possibility of working there. Then come to find out, the teachers are are taxed on their housing (not in the contract).....WTF?
Then, everything else really came into perspective.
Working Saturdays
Not getting out until 10:30-11 p.m.
No reall vacation time (only long weekends)
All for the amount of 2.3 million won a month!
Overtime is good though, and I've heard the housing is nice. BUT.........being taxed on housing? I'm glad I found this out now, instead of later...after I would have arrived.
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ginger7
Joined: 17 Jun 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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pretty sure i'm not taxed on my housing...at least it's not listed on my pay stub. money is only taken out for taxes, pension and health care.
my apartment is sweet.
i've never worked on a saturday. we're not supposed to. there aren't any saturday classes.
and you get to choose one week of vacation and then have the standard week off in the summer, like everybody else in korea.
where did you get this information from?
but yeah, sometimes getting out at 10:20 sucks. and they just changed 8:50 to 9:40 on wednesdays, going against our wishes and against our contract, but that's a completely different issue.
those are the only real complaints i have about the company though, which is pretty good considering all of the other bad situations vented out on this site. |
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