winterfall
Joined: 21 May 2009
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 Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Fishead soup wrote: |
This is quite true actually the reason why NST are hired is because The Korean government wants to phase out the grammar translation approach and force Korean teachers to teach entirly in English.
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The government can do whatever they want. It's not gonna happen as soon as they hope. And now that they've finalized the speaking & writing section on the university test.
There's going to be a substantial increase to the FT program. Hagwon's are already gearing up, I've met a few directors / coordinators and every hagwon, sometimes associations of hagwons have had monthly meetings for the last year on how they're gonna tackle the new sections. Most of them seemed to agree, the best people to teach it are native speakers. Particularly, for writing.
Whatever hagwons do, the government will follow.
| iggyb wrote: |
The concern for me is working environment.
Sure, you can fight the system, but you'll create a lot of bad blood - especially if you do it in your first year. And Koreans hold a grudge.
Since I'm only going to be here one year, the risks don't warrant the possible reward. And it is only 2 classes that are influenced. The others are very different. We work together much more smoothly and alternate how much we do depending on what ideas we have for that week.
Like today, the other teacher told me what section of the book she wanted me to cover, and I had an idea for an activity I've done often in the past, but the activity would take up all 40 minutes, and she was fine with that. |
I don't know what to tell you. Just endure, at least it's only 2 classes. If you want to be passive aggressive you can do the minimum possible and feign ignorance when she asks you to do more. After all with the limited guidelines you got, there really isn't anything else you can do. With luck, parents will start complaining and your principal will browbeat her. |
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