Korean Job Discussion Forums

IncognitoHFX · Joined: 06 May 2007 Location: Yeongtong, Suwon

Why doesn't it have one?

Not the Job-Related Discussion forum, as that clearly gets used for contractual stuff and other pay related, job related things.

I mean a specific place where we can discuss teaching metholodogy and other teaching related things. Or even better: have sub-categories for the respective levels being taught in Korea: Elementary, Middle and High School, hagwons and universities.

Has anyone given any thought to this?

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Does it say somewhere that the Job Forum should only be used to ask questions about contracts? I don't think so.

There is nothing wrong with the idea, but there doesn't seem to be a demand for it. There are a few random threads about actually teaching from time to time and some grammar questions, but it doesn't seem to me that there is a call for it.

poet13 · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject:

I think it would be a good idea. We have job "related" which can really mean almost anything. I often have teaching questions. They are always answered satisfactorily but it's nice to also read about stuff I dont think about, or problems I simply haven't encountered yet.

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

Splitting forums up is a double-edge sword. The traffic on such a forum might be so low that people would just post their queries in the job-related forum anyway. Or it might be helpful. Hard to say.

cheeseface · Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Location: Ssyangnyeon Shi

Is it possible to create a sub form in the jobs forum?

I think a teaching forum where we can share ideas would be great, but Dave's seems to have too many forums already.

poet13 · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:55 pm Post subject:

Well, there's 8 primary forums. Job related is pretty general but it gets specific categories of questions like, contracts, being cheated, Arc vs contract dates, new E-2 rules, my co-teacher is a C*nt/pr@ck, EPIK, SMOE, etc, and that's why there are stickies.
I think a new forum entitled TEACHING related might just be specific enough to get serious posters. There is a huge brain trust here in Korea, and fortunately many of those people aer willing to share what they know. I don't know much myself, but I'm just getting smart enough to ask the right questions. I don't think a sticky would be much good, because few people would want to wade through pages after page of posts to get to say.....rules for the placement of adverbs. gotta go...my chariot awaits.

Umm, hey Dave....are you there Dave? Please?

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

A site related to teaching in Thailand that's very similar to this one has both a job-related and teaching-related forum (called The Staff Room and The Classroom). The result is that the latter doesn't get much traffic and a lot of things relevant to The Classroom end up in The Staff Room. The two could probably be merged and it wouldn't make much difference to the amount of discussion about teaching. In fact, if anything that site probably has a much lower percentage of total discussion related directly to teaching than this one.

hugekebab · Joined: 05 Jan 2008