Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Omkara]

Compare your teaching experience here with your experience back home. Specifically, do you think that one would be more likely to gain job satisfaction in a public school back home?

Currently, I am looking at getting a teacher's credential back home. I find little satisfaction teaching here. The barrier is too large. I love to teach in conditions which are favorable; have no taste for pushing boulders forever up hill only to have them forever roll down again. I'm an above-average teacher who can inspire students, but I loathe bureaucracy.


Did I get a certification, I'd teach English; I'd look to teach for a few years and then make my way into a community college to teach, assuming a great many things.

The other option I'm looking into is to get certified in structural integration, which is a kind of deep-tissue massage therapy. The training is both extensive and costly; but the career is potentially lucrative and rewarding.

If you've any insight, I'd be happy to read what you've got to say.

[crusher_of_heads]

I taught 2 years in Ontario, both with a permanent gig and supply teaching almost every day. I hated the bureaucratic nonsense, the sense of entitlement, grade negotiating and inconsistent disciplinary policies re: plagiarism.

If my branch of the OECTA negotiated a 50% pay increase, I'd still turn it down. Supply teaching is great at approximately 195.00 a day, but a permanent gig with all the hassles, no thanks.

[Ya-ta Boy]

I taught for 20 years back home and enjoyed it for the most part. My subject was social studies. I find teaching English here even more rewarding. It's really gratifying to have students (I teach adults) who are already motivated to learn when I get them and then stand back and watch them improve almost daily.

I went home in '05 for a short time and started sending out a few applications but quickly remembered all the crap that I hated about that system. I wouldn't go back now for all the ginseng in Korea.