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katie.e
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 Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:02 am Post subject: Qualified teacher wanting to teach ESL�Needs advice |
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Hi,
I am finishing my job in July and looking to move to Busan where I would like to teach in a ESL school. I am looking for some advice, whether to go down the Public School EPIK route, or Private School.
Any advice would be great.
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:24 pm Post subject: Re: Qualified teacher wanting to teach ESL�Needs advice |
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| katie.e wrote: |
Hi,
I am finishing my job in July and looking to move to Busan where I would like to teach in a ESL school. I am looking for some advice, whether to go down the Public School EPIK route, or Private School.
Any advice would be great.
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Private school (same as a public school but tuition based - k-12, all subjects) or
Language school (after school English study for profit; AKA hagwan).
As a qualified teacher you will be sadly disappointed in both.
Best bet for least problems (assuming you are under 50) would be to look at the major recruitment drive by BOE or EPIK this spring for the August (mid-term) starts.
Get your paperwork together NOW (some things like your CBC can take time (4-6 weeks) to get done).
If you just want to spend an idle year reciting ABC then send your resume out to about 20 recruiters and take whatever hagwan job you find appealing.
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Ramen
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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like to take a long vacation being a human tape recorder? take a ps job. (not all ps jobs are like that but high probability)
like to teach, but possibly get screwed out of your pay and/or benefits? take a hagwon job.  |
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sigmundsmith
Joined: 22 Nov 2007
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Like others have said, because you are a qualified teacher you maybe dissapointed in the quality of education that is presented here. From personal experience, I have met many (not all) qualified teachers from different countries who only last one year and are disallusioned by their experience.
If you are, and take your profession seriously and looking as career on the international market, I think private academies and public schools may not be what you are looking for. Even private international schools leave a lot to be desired here.
I have friends who are qualified teachers and lasted only one year here who then moved on to countries such as Thailand and Singapore where they are very impressed and financially rewarded working for international schools.
An option may be to search in your own country for recruitment drives for international schools. These drives usually place teachers at international schools all throughout Asia. This would then give you a better insight into packages etc. that would be available to you. Then you could choose which country would best suit your needs.
If none of that interests you and you are only looking at taking a year off to experience life overseas and your focus is Korea, apply for a position through maybe this site and take either a private academy or public school job. Both are the same in expectations in what the students are likely to accomplish in the EFL classroom (of course there are exceptions to the rule), but it depends on which lifestyle will suit you best. |
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