Korean Job Discussion Forums

[walter235]

Guess I needed to vent..............

[Who's Your Daddy?]

[lifeinkorea]

You may need a change of scenery. However, your problems will be the same anywhere you go. Personally, I don't care that I have useless books. The school has told me to do my own thing. I teach 11th and 10th graders. After doing chapter one from the 11th book with both grades, I am doing my own stuff. The rest of the chapters are boring an pathetic. Get the students talking, forget the books. They could be the best written books out there, you would still need to teach.

[Fishead soup]

If you're going to work at a public school work at one that has streamlined classes in the English zone. I used to teach these large multi level classes. Quite frankly it's a waste of taxpayers money. You get students who are pretty fluent teamed up with kids who can barley say anything.
The kids who go to hogwans are not being challeged by what you are doing. The poors kids everything you are doing is going right over their heads.
This semester I work almost always in the English zone. I don't have to waste lots of time babysitting kiddies I actually teach. I don't use the textbooks either. If your school has an Engllish zone and you're not using it. Phone the Board of Education and rat them out. They are supposed to schedule you so you teach small groups of streamlined students.

[oldtactics]

Why on Earth are you still working for EPIK after 10 years of experience? Give your notice & get a uni job ASAP - nearly impossible to get burned out if you're only teaching 12 hours a week, I promise.