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Jizzo T. Clown
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
Location: at my wit's end
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 Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:07 am Post subject: GEPIK/GPOE Lesson Plan Requirement-Is this for real? |
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My coteacher said that the education ministry in Gyeonggi called and said that native teachers have to start making a lesson plan, using the same format the K teachers use: Introduction, Application (?) Consolidation.
I don't really mind because it helps me to focus more on making quality lessons, but was curious if anyone else in Gyeonggi has been given this sudden "requirement" or are they trying to create more work for me since I b*tched about my pension?
Oh, and another thing, they said that I need to make up lesson plans for all of last semester as well, since I arrived in June, they want plans for June, July and August. I told them not to hold their breath on that one though.  |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| The lesson plans are already made, you don't have the book just go to the website they have two sets of plans for every unit in the year course- one for co-teaching w/ half English and half Korean, another set for just native speakers, all English! I would just print them out and give them to whoever requires them. Anyway, I only do ones for my extra classes more or less as a record of my teaching. For regular classes it isn't necessary. |
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tob55
Joined: 29 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:16 am Post subject: Bogus... |
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That is a bogus bit of BS from your co-teacher. Here is the content of the email sent out to all of the foreign teachers:
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Dear all GEPIK teachers
<Important Reminder regarding Team teaching between a Korean co-teacher
and an assistant native teacher>
For all official English classes, Korean co-teacher must be present in the classroom as an assistant native teacher does not hold a 'full teaching license' issued in Republic of Korea. Also a lesson should be taught co-operatively where approximately 80% of the lesson will be led by an assistant native teacher and 20% by a Korean co-teacher.
(NB. The special camps, extra curricular classes and other educational duties relevant to English education as requested by school are exempted from the aforementioned policy)
This reminder has been sent to your school in Korean.
I wanted to share this with you so I translated and got an approval from Dr.Hwang to distribute it to you all.
I hope this clarify some questions you had.
Thank you 
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If they think I will begin writing a lesson plan for all of my classes they certainly have another thing coming...I see this as an opportunity for the co-teachers who like web surfing rather than doing their job to pass off their work onto the foreign teachers...I spoke with a rep from GEPIK and I sense that the left hand truly doesn't know what the right hand is doing...If anything was added to the Korean version of this email then they may well have included other things they would not want to share with the foreign teachers...Par for the course...
Nevertheless, we will see what happens in the next few days...I think the GEPIK office is trying to enforce new policies that will be more difficult to keep track of than a flea in a sandstorm...
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Jizzo T. Clown
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:20 am Post subject: |
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spliff--
Could you post a link to that? I didn't go to the orientation so I have no materials at all.
fwiw the K teachers said it was just for the Provincial office in case they came to the school and wanted to see what we were teaching. Supposedly, I can teach whatever I want--the lesson plan is just a formality. But I figured I might as well make good plans if I'm gonna have to make 'em (though that might not be the case if they're already online!)... |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:30 am Post subject: |
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| I take those lesson plans, fix the typos and other errors, maybe change one or two things, and turn them in. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:42 am Post subject: |
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| I have no complaints about my school as they don't ask me to do such mundane and unnecessary tasks nor do I have to sit around the school during breaks. |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 1:43 am Post subject: |
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| I have never had an email from GEPIK yet other than when I contacted them. I presume that this is a good thing. It may also have been that I didn't give them my email address since I didn't want any spam. |
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bosintang
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
Location: In the pot with the rest of the mutts
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:59 am Post subject: |
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| mrsquirrel wrote: |
| I have never had an email from GEPIK yet other than when I contacted them. I presume that this is a good thing. It may also have been that I didn't give them my email address since I didn't want any spam. |
I never received that email either, Apparently neither did my co-teachers or they promptly chose to ignore it.
However I don't know if I'm actually part of GEPIK. I was hired through a recruiter, but my visa is with the PoE, not the school. |
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bosintang
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
Location: In the pot with the rest of the mutts
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:01 am Post subject: |
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OP: I make up lesson plans every week, and have done so since I started
Two reasons: 1) Writing a lesson plan focuses me and 2) I expected that like one day before I was ready to go on vacation I'd get a "uhh..we need your lesson plans for the last 10 months." |
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bosintang
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
Location: In the pot with the rest of the mutts
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:03 am Post subject: Re: Bogus... |
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For all official English classes, Korean co-teacher must be present in the classroom as an assistant native teacher does not hold a 'full teaching license' issued in Republic of Korea. Also a lesson should be taught co-operatively where approximately 80% of the lesson will be led by an assistant native teacher and 20% by a Korean co-teacher.
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Is this 80/20% figure a new thing? In the meeting last year we were told there was no official policy governing how the lesson was divided. |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:13 am Post subject: |
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They're really pushing a certified Korean being in the room because some FT swore at the kids and taught them about pot.
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Dear teachers in Gyeonggi Prov.
How are you all?
Suriving well in the hot and humid Korea summer?
Summer vacation is finishing soon..maybe some schools may have started already.
Today, my supervisor, Dr.Hwang asked me to send every teachers in Gyeonggi Prov. to let you know some important notices.
There has been a huge controversy regarding the native teacher in our province.
He/she was recently interviewed by a team from Korean broadcasting about the incident.
Here is a short summary of what happened. (I will call the native teacher, A, to avoid the gender of the teacher)
A went in to a class alone without the co-teacher because A thought it would be okay because sometimes when the co-teacher is busy A goes to class alone to teach.
But when A couldn't handle the students noise, A sometimes swore to the class which some of the students understood.
Also other times A asked some noisy students to do push-ups to displine them.
Students complained that A showed them too much English movies and did too many pop-songs during class.
One day, while A explained about 'cultural difference' to the students during class time (yes, this time again, without Korean co-teacher)
A mentioned about 'cannbis' 'marijuana' and 'heroin' and even explained about how to use them too.
These stories has been leaked and now there will be a TV document about 'native teachers in Korea' focusing on this native teacher, A.
Yes, I know. This is probably one in millions that will happen but it happened.
Many schools, teachers and students appreciate you coming to Korea and teach.
Our office are aware of how good you are at teaching through open classes you do during the semester.
Yes, there can be confusion, fraustration and mis-communication with your co-teacher/school. So that's why I am here to talk to you and help you.
Our office is very sad to hear about the native teacher's behaviour and because of this incident, how other good native teachers could be seen by public.
There has been many good reports and TV documents about advantages/postive effect of having native ESL teachers in public schools.
In fact, our office is helping a broadcasting team to videotape good native teachers' classes.
To avoid any similar incidents, here are some announcements I would like to make.
1. Do NOT go in to a class to teach WITHOUT Korean co-teacher. (I know, sometimes you are asked to go in alone because the co-teacher too busy then refuse to teach alone in the classroom)
Korean law states that unless one is duly licensed to teach in Korea, than one MUST be accompanised in the classroom by a teacher who is acually licensed.
Even though, you are teaching 100% of the class, co-teacher MUST be the classroom.
Our office will be sending official letters to all co-teachers about acommpanying you is ESSENTIAL AND MUST!
2. Leave displining students to Korean co-teacher.
Recent years, punishing students have been a huge controversy in Korea.
So Korean are very sensitive on this issue.
3. Swearing to students is not acceptable...(but we all know that, right!?)
4. Using pop-songs and movies to teach English can be fun to students but too much will not..(but we know this too!, right?!)
This e-mail was a looooooooooong email but I wanted to let you know what happened and hope this will not happen again (which I believe strongly)
Every one of you are a respected and valued member of the teaching staff of your school.
Don't forget that!
Thank you for reading my loooooooooong e-mail
hope next email can be fruitful and bright one.
Cheers everyone!~! |
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bosintang
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
Location: In the pot with the rest of the mutts
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:17 am Post subject: |
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Yes, they need a Korean co-teacher in the room. Don't let the kiddies get too close to the native speaker. He might bite. Look but don't touch. Remember, many of these native speakers are degenerates who can't get jobs in their own countries!
It's alright if a Korean teacher curses at the kids or cracks them across the skull with a stick for being noisy, but god forbid a *foreigner* make the kids do push-ups.
Oh sigh...
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1. Do NOT go in to a class to teach WITHOUT Korean co-teacher. (I know, sometimes you are asked to go in alone because the co-teacher too busy then refuse to teach alone in the classroom)
Korean law states that unless one is duly licensed to teach in Korea, than one MUST be accompanised in the classroom by a teacher who is acually licensed.
Even though, you are teaching 100% of the class, co-teacher MUST be the classroom.
Our office will be sending official letters to all co-teachers about acommpanying you is ESSENTIAL AND MUST!
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By this logic, the Korean teacher should be teaching the class. Full-stop. They're basically stating it up front. You're not trained, you're not trusted. So why do they expect you to teach? |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:27 am Post subject: |
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Yes, they need a Korean co-teacher in the room. Don't let the kiddies get too close to the native speaker. He might bite. Look but don't touch. Remember, many of these native speakers are degenerates who can't get jobs in their own countries!
It's alright if a Korean teacher curses at the kids or cracks them across the skull with a stick for being noisy, but god forbid a *foreigner* make the kids do push-ups.
Oh sigh...
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1. Do NOT go in to a class to teach WITHOUT Korean co-teacher. (I know, sometimes you are asked to go in alone because the co-teacher too busy then refuse to teach alone in the classroom)
Korean law states that unless one is duly licensed to teach in Korea, than one MUST be accompanised in the classroom by a teacher who is acually licensed.
Even though, you are teaching 100% of the class, co-teacher MUST be the classroom.
Our office will be sending official letters to all co-teachers about acommpanying you is ESSENTIAL AND MUST!
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By this logic, the Korean teacher should be teaching the class. Full-stop. They're basically stating it up front. You're not trained, you're not trusted. So why do they expect you to teach? |
The 80/20 was sent after that email, so I guess we aren't teaching 100%.
I was thrown into class alone, the KT didn't even introduce me, my second day! |
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bosintang
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
Location: In the pot with the rest of the mutts
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:37 am Post subject: |
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We don't want you here, we don't think you're valuable, and we don't trust you. We'll throw you in a classroom once a week with 40 students used to choosing a, b, c, or d so they can gawk at you and pretend they might learn somthing (with special care of the Korean teacher of course).
You're a pain in the ass to take care of and even more of a pain in the ass to replace. We begrudge hiring you. We don't want to hear about your problems and no we'll not fix them.
But for some reason -- some reason that it takes a special Korean educators mind to answer -- we feel compelled to hire you and pay you the highest EFL salaries in Asia. You have a university degree and a warm pulse? Welcome to GEPIK! You'll fit right in. Making expats feel all warm and fuzzy inside since 1995. |
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