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[nomad-ish]

^ i actually recently filled out a survey on my city's english program, and mentioned exactly that: send all the korean and foreign english teachers to a workshop on what is expected of them.

[ESL Milk "Everyday]

I don't have one now, and I'm glad for it, because a bad co-teacher is worse than useless. A good one is golden, though.

Also, I don't think it's legal for the NT to be in the class alone with the kids.

[nizpaz]

*Bleep* me! There must be something in the water. This very day I've been asked to do the same thing.

I'm looking at it as a chance to teach something beyond the mind numbing curriculum, even though it's going to be extra work for me.

[Zulethe]

Are all you tards from the planet ingnorance? Nobody cares what you do! The schools don't care because they don't want you there in the first place. It doesn't matter if you spend 20 hours on a lesson or show up drunk and dance like a flying monkey. As long as you show up and do something, anything, don't cause problems and bow to the proper people when you should, no one gives a rat's ass what you do.

Just don't cause problems, keep a low profile, and enjoy the easiest job you will ever have in your life.

Planning is for chumps. The good students will learn and the bad won't. None of your magical game plans will do any good. If they want to speak and learn then talk to them. If they want to act like a bunch of wild boars, pick up a newspaper, give them a book to read and just chill. Or better yet, like a few of the previous posters said, put in a movie.

Your Korean co-teachers care as much about you and your teaching as they do about whether or not their lunch will have the new Kimchee or old.

As long as there's a warm body in there giving them a break, it's all good.

Z

[Fishead soup]

[some waygug-in]

I really miss the classes I had last year where I had no co-teacher.

I still had to use the textbook, but I was free to add things in or improvise as I saw fit.

It's good to have their classroom teacher hang around though, keeps the kids from going hog-wild.

[nomad-ish]

[Big Mac]

I wish I didn't have co-teachers. I'd much rather have control of my own class. In some of my classes, the Korean teachers teach half the class in Korean or in Konglish and use me as a sort of sideshow. After three years of teaching my own classes in a hogwan, I don't really feel the need to have a co-teacher other than as a means of controlling much bigger classes than what I am used to.

To those who think it is illegal not to have a Korean teacher in the classroom....where are you getting that from? There are foreign teachers alone in classrooms in just about every hogwan in Korea. Do you think that's illegal too?

[Kwangjuchicken]

[julesk]

It is illegal to not have a Korean teacher in the classroom, because we are not official, licensed teachers in Korea. There must be a licensed teacher in all classes at all times. I know that this is the rule for public schools, but maybe it is different for hogwans.

[sojusucks]

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