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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:28 am Post subject: Any ex or future NZ teachers here? |
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I don't know if this is really the right place, but ...
After a few years teaching ESL in Korea I decided to return to NZ and become a licenced teacher in NZ. While finding official information from the universities and the teachers' council websites is relatively easy, I couldn't find any informal sites or forums like I was used to from Korea. So I decided to create one.
Here it is http://nzteachers.freeforums.org/index.php
Hope to see you there |
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oldfatfarang
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: On the road to somewhere.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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Good job. You might also put in some info about the Confucian nature of Korean public school teachers' offices. The mood and working norms are completely different than a NZ workplace, and will come as a huge shock to any NZer (especially a woman) taking a NET job.
I've taught in 6 Korean schools (5 public - 1 hagwon), and some of these were PURE CONFUCIAN. That is, the adjoshi maffia ruled the office - and the woman teachers (even senior woman teachers) cowered under their gaze (and shouting). Hellova shock for a NZ girl, methinks?
Good luck with your website and teaching in NZ. |
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Perceptioncheck
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| oldfatfarang wrote: |
Good job. You might also put in some info about the Confucian nature of Korean public school teachers' offices. The mood and working norms are completely different than a NZ workplace, and will come as a huge shock to any NZer (especially a woman) taking a NET job.
I've taught in 6 Korean schools (5 public - 1 hagwon), and some of these were PURE CONFUCIAN. That is, the adjoshi maffia ruled the office - and the woman teachers (even senior woman teachers) cowered under their gaze (and shouting). Hellova shock for a NZ girl, methinks?
Good luck with your website and teaching in NZ. |
It's not really meant to be about teaching in korea, it's more about new and existing new teachers in NEW Zealand. Right after I posted I realised that the title could be taken the wrong way.
It's meant to be any ex NZ teachers that taught in NZ or future teachers that want to teach in NZ.
But you are free to join up and post. The problem with forums is you need people to get people |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I would also like to state that I am making no money from this, 0 it's a free forum with no advertising. |
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