Korean Job Discussion Forums

shendallandkelly · Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Location: Fish Market

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 · Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: Away for a cuppa

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 · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Location: osan

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 · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

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 · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Location: osan

its not impossible, just takes a little creativity.

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

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

osangrl · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Location: osan

then u shouldn't be teaching children

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

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 · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:03 am Post subject:

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 · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

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 · Joined: 14 Apr 2003

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