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CentralCali
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Those GETs in Busan who were recontracted had a mandatory meeting at BMCOE on December 20. All GETs present received the following information sheet. I changed the formatting to follow message board list formatting. Take careful note of sections 3 and 6.
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Contract Renewal Orientation
<December 20, 2011>
- Renewal Process.
- Official document out to schools
- Submit renewal application with required documents
- Renewal application (Korean & English)
- Evaluation sheets
- Health check
- A signed 2012 contract
- Any other required documents: apostilled diploma, apostilled national level criminal record check, etc.
- Renewal confirmation document out to schools.
- Visa Extension
- Immigration Office in Jungang-dong (Make appointment online to save time.)
- 1~2 months before current visa expiration date (Check your ARC for your expiration date.)
- Fingerprints will be collected starting Jan. 1, 2012
- Required documents:
- Application
- Fee
- ID: ARC & passport
- Signed renewal contract
- A copy of school registration number
- Renewal vacation
- Must receive your school principal's permission.
- Avoid booking your ticket before receiving permission from your school.
- If transferring to a new school, must receive a permission of your new school principal.
- Must be used after starting of your renewed contract up to first 6 months into your renewed contract.
- School Transfer
- An official document with new placement will be sent out by latest early February.
- Your contact information will be added to the document for the new school.
- Do arrange with your new school on the moving date.
- Must be available to start on the first day of your renewed contract.
- Must report your new address to your new regional office (gu-cheong) or the immigration office within 14 days.
(http://www.hikorea.go.kr/pt/index.html)
*Those changing housing status from housing to housing allowance: Make sure tha tyou report your change of address to your regional office or the immigration office as well.
- TEFL/TESOL
- If you are currently working on your TEFL/TESOL certificate, please send us your original certificate to verify. Your copy of the contract as well as your original certificate will be sent out to your school once we can finalize your pay level for the renewed year.
- An official document with finalized and/or fixred pay level will be sent out to your school early February.
- Please make sure to submit your original TEFL/TESOL certificate (100 or more hours) to us at the latest by January 27, 2012 to the address below. Pleaase note that we will not take your certificate after this date.
Busan Metropolitan City Office of Education
International Team
12 Hwaji-ro, Busanjin-gu, Busanjin-gu
614-703
- Budget Cut
- Budget cut for GETs for the new school year.
- Number of teachers may decrease from the second semester.
- Less availablity, harder to renew with higher evaluation standards and expectation.
- Must appeal to higher ups, parents, teachers, and administrats the need, importance, and effectiveness of GETs.
- Avoid desk-warming.
- Avoid using cell phones, chatting online, and surfing internet.
- Avoid habitual, frequent tardiness and/or absences.
- �Do as Romans do in Rome!� (Don't expect everyone at your school to understand you. Try to understand them, their way of life, their way of thinking, their way of doing things.)
- Be active at work-involve in school events when possible.
- Avoid criticizing Korea, Korea education system, your students, co-teachers, and administrators.
- Be optimistic!
- Be an active information seeker! (Don't wait 'til you get spoon-fed! You are not in your home country.)
- Facebook Account
- In hope to better communicate correct information to GETs, we have created a facebook account. Please add [email protected] as your friend. We'll try to post infomration on official documents regarding GETs.
- Our new web site: http://peneng.cucis.co.kr/
- Counseling Hours
- Rather than answering your questions or giving advices via email or over the phone, we are inviting you to our office in Yangjeong M-F between 4:00 ~ 6:00 (RM #303). There is no need to make an appointment. Just show up at our office, and we'll do our best to help you out.
- Contract signing
- Envelope:
- 2 contracts (noe for visa extension, one for GET)
- Question form
- 1 extra contract or just the cover page for employer
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For those teachers who had requested apostilles but have yet to receive them, the BMCOE required the teacher to sign the following agreement.
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Agreement
I, ______________________ (Name), admit that although requested to submit checked document(s) for my contract renewal as a BMCOE Guest English Teacher due to the lengthy process required for the needed documents and/or my carelessness I am unable to submit the doucment(s) by the due date.
Hence, I hereby proise that I will submit checked document(s) by 2012.4.30. and I request that my renewal be granted with this signed agreement.
If I do not submit the doucment(s) by the promised date written above, or I am found to have any criminal record, I agree that I will take the full responsibility and follow any decision made by the BMCOE.
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|__| apostilled diploma
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|__| apostilled national level criminal record check
(Check the document(s) you are required to submit for your renewal.)
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You have to love the "and/or" phrase there. Not a word about the deadline being completely unknown to the GETs until approximately a month before (if the GET were lucky and had a foreigner wrangler who was even slightly on the ball) that deadline. They do seem to (grudgingly) admit that the other country's process is a bit longer than it is in Korea because, of course, Korea as a whole basically corresponds to just one state or province in the other country.
Some teachers who have been with Busan EPIK for a few years were asked if they would agree to sign a 13-month contract so they could assist the school in the 13th month of their contract, 1st month of a new teacher's contract, if the long-timer were to not renew at the end of the 2012 contract.
{Edited to correct a misspelling.}
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english puppet
Joined: 04 Nov 2011
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 5:39 am Post subject: Sorry, please understand the situation. |
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Sorry, I keep having pervasive thoughts when reading number six of just how full of crap they really are here.
Never criticize our "Dear leader", er, I'm sorry the Korean education system. |
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jrwhite82
Joined: 22 May 2010
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 5:49 am Post subject: Re: Sorry, please understand the situation. |
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| english puppet wrote: |
Sorry, I keep having pervasive thoughts when reading number six of just how full of crap they really are here.
Never criticize our "Dear leader", er, I'm sorry the Korean education system. |
There is a difference between criticizing and offering solutions. Do you think it is a good idea to criticize your boss back in your home country? Or your coworkers? That's just bad form in any country, in any work place. Some people don't get that here or back home. Those people have a hard time as educators (here and at home) who more often than not have to work within a system and framework such as public education.
The Korean education system is not perfect. Everyone (including Koreans) knows that. Do you think they want to hear an "assistant teacher" who has no formal training in education and limited knowledge of the Korean education system complaining about it? No, of course they don't and I agree with them.
Try to stay positive if you want to improve things. Instead of harping on what is wrong wrong wrong. Just fix what you have the power to fix, without the whining. |
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english puppet
Joined: 04 Nov 2011
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 5:55 am Post subject: Re: Sorry, please understand the situation. |
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| jrwhite82 wrote: |
| english puppet wrote: |
Sorry, I keep having pervasive thoughts when reading number six of just how full of crap they really are here.
Never criticize our "Dear leader", er, I'm sorry the Korean education system. |
There is a difference between criticizing and offering solutions. Do you think it is a good idea to criticize your boss back in your home country? Or your coworkers? That's just bad form in any country, in any work place. Some people don't get that here or back home. Those people have a hard time as educators (here and at home) who more often than not have to work within a system and framework such as public education.
The Korean education system is not perfect. Everyone (including Koreans) knows that. Do you think they want to hear an "assistant teacher" who has no formal training in education and limited knowledge of the Korean education system complaining about it? No, of course they don't and I agree with them.
Try to stay positive if you want to improve things. Instead of harping on what is wrong wrong wrong. Just fix what you have the power to fix, without the whining. |
No arguing with you on it - you're exactly the person they want for the job!
It's all good!
Happy trails! |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 6:30 am Post subject: |
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Some GETs have degrees in education or teaching credentials in their home country.
Some GETs are quite familiar with the Korean education system because they (a) have children enrolled in Korean schools, (b) are married to a Korean who obviously has familiarity with their own country's education system, or (c) both (a) and (b). |
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itistime
Joined: 23 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 6:58 am Post subject: |
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Ha ha. They have a 'facebook' provision in the memo??
Some people deserve to be treated like children, I guess.
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GrasshopperKR
Joined: 14 Oct 2011
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:09 am Post subject: |
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Ha ha. They have a 'facebook' provision in the memo??
Some people deserve to be treated like children, I guess.
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It's a way for them to communicate with the teachers. Any form of communication is a good thing, is it not? |
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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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| CentralCali wrote: |
Some GETs have degrees in education or teaching credentials in their home country.
Some GETs are quite familiar with the Korean education system because they (a) have children enrolled in Korean schools, (b) are married to a Korean who obviously has familiarity with their own country's education system, or (c) both (a) and (b). |
One thing's got nothing to do with the other. The list of demands is absurd. And the GETs that you mention are in the minority and they always will be. The fact that there are more GETs with Ed degrees is an anomaly due to current economic conditions. When it passes (and it will), the public schools will have a harder time keeping GETs if they try to keep to these "standards". |
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english puppet
Joined: 04 Nov 2011
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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I'm guessing there are quite a few here who are too young to remember the book "Who moved my cheese?", that was a favorite of corporations and personnel directors in a lot of places.
It was obviously an attempt at broad social control in the workplace. There was the usual crowd there and probably will be here who sucks up anything management tells them w/ much thought. Arguably, it's even part of the normal scheme here.
I'm waiting now for "Who moved my Kimchi?"
Should be a best seller. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| isitts wrote: |
| The list of demands is absurd. |
Agreed. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:35 pm Post subject: Re: Sorry, please understand the situation. |
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| jrwhite82 wrote: |
| english puppet wrote: |
Sorry, I keep having pervasive thoughts when reading number six of just how full of crap they really are here.
Never criticize our "Dear leader", er, I'm sorry the Korean education system. |
There is a difference between criticizing and offering solutions. Do you think it is a good idea to criticize your boss back in your home country? Or your coworkers? That's just bad form in any country, in any work place. Some people don't get that here or back home. Those people have a hard time as educators (here and at home) who more often than not have to work within a system and framework such as public education.
The Korean education system is not perfect. Everyone (including Koreans) knows that. Do you think they want to hear an "assistant teacher" who has no formal training in education and limited knowledge of the Korean education system complaining about it? No, of course they don't and I agree with them.
Try to stay positive if you want to improve things. Instead of harping on what is wrong wrong wrong. Just fix what you have the power to fix, without the whining. |
Very well put. |
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Malislamusrex
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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That list was stupid and rather insulting.
First off I'm guessing 'Budget cut for GETs for the new school year.' should read There will be budget cut for GETs for the new school year.
Secondly why don't the BOME list the minimum required standards instead of saying in point 6 that most teachers complain too much, are unqualified and uneducated. |
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soyoungmikey
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd be suspicious of the FB add. They will no doubt be monitoring your activity and how you conduct yourself. Pretty creepy if you ask me. I'd make a FB account just to add them. Mark my words some will not get renewed and you'll wonder why. Then reflect on the drunken pics you posted the week before. |
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waseige1
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| soyoungmikey wrote: |
| I'd be suspicious of the FB add. They will no doubt be monitoring your activity and how you conduct yourself. Pretty creepy if you ask me. I'd make a FB account just to add them. Mark my words some will not get renewed and you'll wonder why. Then reflect on the drunken pics you posted the week before. |
Amen to that... My mother, father, sister, daughter and son are not Facebook friends.... The BMOE certainly will not be either. |
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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| english puppet wrote: |
I'm guessing there are quite a few here who are too young to remember the book "Who moved my cheese?", that was a favorite of corporations and personnel directors in a lot of places.
It was obviously an attempt at broad social control in the workplace. There was the usual crowd there and probably will be here who sucks up anything management tells them w/ much thought. Arguably, it's even part of the normal scheme here.
I'm waiting now for "Who moved my Kimchi?"
Should be a best seller. |
I read that book twice. I'm still waiting for the exciting sequel, when Hem actually finds the one who did move the cheese and what becomes of them.  |
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