Korean Job Discussion Forums

[nathanrutledge]

[winterfall]

There's a big push now to phase out technical high schools. Every education office is doing it. Tech schools need to submit applications to shift over to special purpose schools. The ones that don't make the cut are switched to very low level academic high schools.

If your teaching English for all those subjects. It sounds like your school wants to or is already planning to switch. I haven't heard of any other school's that are changing requiring FTs to train the teachers. Including mine. We're on a 3 year time table until the first class for the new program comes in. If the order came from your MOE, it could be an experiment

And no it doesn't qualify as bonus pay. Check your contract. Most likely it'll say you have to do camp. Teacher training is included in your work responsibilities. As long as your not over your 22 hours, and or there aren't any after school classes you get the same pay. If you didn't have to do camps before you lucked out.

[ThingsComeAround]

[nathanrutledge]

[Gary-Korea]

I work at a High School with another NET. We were asked last winter to teach our coworkers a couple of hours a day for a week each. My mate did the first week and about 3 teachers turned up on the Monday. After that no one turned up for the rest of the week. The week after it was my turn. I waited in the class for the first 10 minutes on the Monday and no one showed. I knocked it on the head after that.

The Korean Principals and Education Board honchos of this world need to realise that learning English really isn't a priority for people when they have young families they have hardly seen for an entire semester!

[geldedgoat]

Update: My coteacher now seems unsure whether this ingenious plan originated with MoE or the principal. Also, the class would be mandatory for all teachers under the age of 30 (roughly ten teachers). My coteacher will have absolutely nothing to do with the class. (What do I do if the students start fighting each other?!)

Still no word on whether or not this will conflict with my thrice-approved two-week trip to the Philippines which has already been fully paid for.

All details will apparently be decided by Monday, so we'll see.

[jvalmer]

If you teaching teachers, they will show up for the first week. After that you'll be lucky if 3 of them show up.

[wylies99]

[itistime]

" the principal wants to know whether or not other GEPIK teachers are having to do something similar. Yes, I was specifically asked to ask other teachers if they're being tasked with running a camp for their fellow teachers."

Don't sell the other NETs out.
This is being asked so the princ can contact the other schools princes and round you all up to teach the whole area/county/regions' teachers.

Good answer: "Yes, I know some that are doing with their schools."

No more info required

I know that this is happening in some places.

[sojusucks]

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

Give them homework

[Fishead soup]

Sounds like a great way to get the other Korean teachers to hate their foriegn teacher. So many of them plan little excersions to Thailand and China during the break. If the POE actually get away with this boneheaded plan your school co-workers will hate you. They'll take it out on you by offering zero support when you face disciplinary problems with your students. You need to contact the POE and inform them of this

[Troglodyte]

[sojusucks]