Korean Job Discussion Forums

[shendallandkelly]

Just curious about how long people run a Let's Go series for. Our hagwon finishes each book in 3 months, rain or shine, and we find some kids just can't keep up at that pace. We also teach them in co-operation (that's a loose term) with the Korean teachers. So we teach the kids two or three times a week and a Korean teacher teaches them two or three times a week.

[Holyjoe]

I remember actually reading a post from a user (it was ulsanchris) in the thread about best/worst textbooks talking about the Let's Go series:

Just found it...

[osangrl]

6 months is a little much, i had to teach that series for a year and a half. I agree with all the supplements its ok. We did a Unit a week and a week of review after 4 units, granted some units take longer, like the what are you doing, or the past tense unit, or the always usually sometimes never unit, so i would say about 12 weeks for a book.

I hope you have the teachers books, they are really good.

[ryleeys]

I don't have the teacher's books or any of the supplementals... just the student's books and I find those kind of dry. Not to mention it is completely impossible to teach the concept of past tense or all the other strange as forms of verbs when I don't speak Korean and they took my co-teacher away...

[osangrl]

its not impossible, just takes a little creativity.

[ryleeys]

Creativity is something that 12 years of American schooling and 4 years of college completely beat out of me...

[osangrl]

then u shouldn't be teaching children

[ryleeys]

I'll admit, I probably shouldn't be teaching children... in America I had alot of success in the limited teaching experiences I had with high school and college students. This is the first time I've worked with children and while I like children alot, I definately know that I am not prepared for the job... but at the moment, I don't have much choice, so I do as much research as I can trying to learn how to work with children... While I still have a long way to go, I certainly hope that I'm better than I was two months ago when I first got here.

[tomato]

Hello, Shendallandkelly!

It seems that most language schools in Korea cover too much material too fast. There seems to be a common belief that the more pages you cover, the more you learn. I have had heated disagreements with Korean teachers over this matter.

[crazylemongirl]

I'm not teaching the lets go series at the moment, but it was school policy that we cover 1 page in the student book and the workbook a lesson.

So we'd get through the books in about 3 or 4 months.

[wylde]

incorperate everything you can into the lesson - those books should be taught for no less than 6 months..

they are great books if you play all the games, have review tests, review all the work in the workbooks and at about lets go 4, include a list of verb tenses to study also.. you must make sure everystudent gets 100% percent or dang close before proceeding.. sounds like dreamland i know but that is what needs to happen.. if you push it through in 3 months some students will not grasp the material, so becomes the need for expanding each lesson to keep the good students interested and to help the poor students keep up..

all these idiot schools pushing it faster are stupid... they are only helping themselves not the students

[crazylemongirl]

[ryleeys]

Damn... I don't even have the workbooks to go with my lessons... what a crock.

[wylde]

ahhh yes.. you be right clg

these stupid parents and directors who, themselves, could not hold a conversation to save their own life, dictate procedure...


edit for ryleeys: buy them yourself and photocopy the stuff at school to hand out.. screw it, might cost ya 50,000 for the set of workbooks but if your boss is a fool (sounds like) and wont shell out for them, just do it and wear the cost to make your lessons more complete and your lesson planning less stressful

[Juggertha]

4-5 months seems to be my average per book.