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ABC KID
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:52 pm Post subject: Teaching Disabled Students In Korea |
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Do any of you have any experience of teaching disabled students in Korea? I am interested about all workplaces but especially within the public school system.
What kind of disabilities have you encountered? Have you just had one disabled student as part of a much bigger class or have you taught whole classes of disabled students? What have been your experiences of teaching these children and overall have your experiences been positive or negative? |
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jvalmer

Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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In some schools, especially in the rural areas, you'll get the occasional disabled (in a wheel chair and thought to 30 max), or retarded kid (high functioning). Some schools do have special ed classes, but you'll probably never see those classes.
Out of 7 schools that I've taught at, I've encountered maybe 3 that was obvious. Often your co-teacher won't tell you, so you kind of look like an @ss when you pick that student out to do something. No point treating those students any different, actually better to let the student be. |
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ChilgokBlackHole
Joined: 21 Nov 2009
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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I am neither trained nor willing to deal with students who are mentally "otherwise enabled." I have a kid who is obviously autistic and another who is obviously FAS, but I have other customers to worry about.
I hope you find what you're looking for, but if you are qualified to teach SpEd, please look in the US. They're always hiring. |
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winterfall
Joined: 21 May 2009
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Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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It depends if your in a top tier school or a lower tiered one. Upper tier schools may have 1 or 2, max. Lower Tier schools and they're in almost every class, sometimes the majority of classes. There's a huge stigma against being labeled "Disabled". So families about 60-70% of the time will choose to send their kids to a "Normal" school cause they don't want their kid to live with that "label" even though there are special government sponsored schools and the parents know none of us know how to teach em.
Anyway I'm in the way lower end. I've got every kind of student possible save for former child soldiers: mentally challenged (Mild to severe), blind (only 1, the other one is just color blind. But that wrecks havoc on most games, chalk board stuff) deaf (Mild to severe), mute, learning disorders,
Like another poster mentioned your co-teacher won't mention it and if your co-teacher is really incompetent, he won't notice till about 6 months in. (Found one a kid was completely deaf, lip reads Korean my second week. Korean teacher had the kid for 7 months and didn't know. When I asked my KET, His way of checking was to yell at the kid as loud as he could)
The experience is kinda what you make of it and if your willing to deal with it. Most people won't. Its definitely tough because of their disabilities and because no one addressed em. They're really low, most of em won't have phonics and or won't know the alphabet. Your Korean teacher's won't know how to teach em even if you provide all the material.
Takes a lot of patience and you've gotta find a way to manage the rest of the class and also provide constant feedback and monitoring to the disabled kids for their special assignments. And the hardest part, you�ll also have to protect them from bullying. I�ve punished whole classes, but that can get really messy, most times the students won�t understand why they�re being punished.
I've managed to find out ways to teach phonics to deaf kids, the blind one is a working progress, and the mentally challenged. Be happy with a couple words. |
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