Korean Job Discussion Forums

phoenixstorm · Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I was wondering what your weekly schedules look like. Do you work forty hour weeks? Thiry? Twenty?

If you do work forty hour weeks but teach only twenty of those hours what do you do the other twenty? Do they have you doing miscellaneous tasks around the school?

Just curious

Thanks!

aarontendo · Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Location: Daegu-ish

Teach 22 hours a week (class hours not real hours). 5 hours for lunch a week. Preparation, chatting with your co-teachers and other teachers at the school, schmoozing around the water-cooler / coffee machine. Yeah, it sounds lame but socializing a bit with the other teachers is damn important at times. And, well, it's actually kinda fun at times.

I also like to use some of the time to chat up the students, as they know my office is always open to them. I feel as a teacher a lot more is accomplished during those times than during the more structured classes. Even when it's just them gossiping about their boyfriends / girlfriends or whatever.

Oh yeah, and bring a book. I leave a book at each of my two schools. Reading a John Steinbeck at my high school, Fight Club at my middle school, and a Stephen King at home.

nomad-ish · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 4:52 pm Post subject:

i'm supposed to teach 22 hours a week, but i'm there 8:30-4:30 M-F, with an hour off for lunch. in between classes i plan lessons, after that (if there's time, and there always is), i play on facebook and read posts off dave's esl cafe Very Happy

kids will come into the office in between their classes and talk to me a bit, but other than that, i don't have any other structured jobs to do in my off-teaching hours.

BS.Dos. · Joined: 29 Mar 2007

I teach about 17 classes per week over a HS and a MS. I work from 08.30 till 17.30 and always seem to be preping one thing or another, but there again, I'm not confident in entering the classroom blind so to speak. I'm sure that some of the more experienced teachers can wing it on the hoof, whereas I need to know that I know exactly what I'll be doing for each class, hence why I'm usually preping in between lessons. Lunchtime usually means eating lunch in about 5-minutes flat before returning back to my desk for more grind.

phoenixstorm · Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Thanks for the replies. I'm trying to figure out if I want to pursue a public school job when my hogwon contract is up.

Another question: are you the only foreign teacher at your school?

pest2 · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Location: Vancouver, Canada

Jizzo T. Clown · Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Location: at my wit's end

pest2 · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Location: Vancouver, Canada