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Mike410
Joined: 23 Sep 2011
Location: Canada
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 Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 7:56 pm Post subject: Teaching kindergarten |
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As most hagwon jobs include kindergarten, is it a turn off to tell a recruiter you don't want to teach kindergarten?
For those that teach or have taught that level, what was it really like?
I do like kids, but I don't want to just be a 'babysitter'. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 8:36 pm Post subject: Re: Teaching kindergarten |
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| Mike410 wrote: |
As most hagwon jobs include kindergarten, is it a turn off to tell a recruiter you don't want to teach kindergarten?
For those that teach or have taught that level, what was it really like?
I do like kids, but I don't want to just be a 'babysitter'. |
TEACHING young and very young learners is NOT THE SAME as TEFL to older students.
Teaching very young learners focuses a lot on sight, color, sound, action and interaction. There is LOTS of repetition and focused play.
A 4 year old is NOT 1/2 of an 8-year old.
An 8 year old is NOT 1/2 of a 16 year old.
They are about as different as caterpillars and butterflies.
It is NOT babysitting.
It takes a special person with a lot of energy to deal with little kids.
If you are not one of those special people then stay away.
If you are one of those special people then there is a decent career path.
You will know which one you are about 90 days after you start.
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Mike410
Joined: 23 Sep 2011
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| You will know which one you are about 90 days after you start. |
Lol. That should work out well. |
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radcon
Joined: 23 May 2011
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| Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Teaching kindergarten is a woman's job. |
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drcrazy
Joined: 19 Feb 2003
Location: Pusan. Yes, that's right. Pusan NOT Busan. I ain't never been to no place called Busan
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| Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| radcon wrote: |
| Teaching kindergarten is a woman's job. |
The other day I told a friend about something that had happened when I was doing my PhD. Because of your post, I will tell it here. The appartment building next to mine burned down. The reason why is because a graduate student (male) from a Middle Eastern country tried to fry chicken by filling a metal pot with oil and raw chicken then put it into a microwave. Not sure what the setting was, but he turned it on. He then left for a class thinking he would have fried chicken when he got back. He tried to defend what happened by saying, "I am not a woman, I do not know how to cook." |
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teacherbunny
Joined: 25 Aug 2010
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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firstly I have seen many very good male kindergarten teachers..
The best thing is to love kids.. Of course there will be days when you are sick of it..
But I think it is a really fulfilling part of ESL.
Their whole English foundation is based on the building blocks you give them in these early years, and they learn so fast.
teaching kids that want to actually learn..
before they get to elementary and have all the fun taken out.
And the schedule is one of the best..
It does take a lot of energy though.
..excuse my lack of sentence and paragraph structure and anything else..
It is sunday my brain has taken a day off |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 12:39 am Post subject: Re: Teaching kindergarten |
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| Mike410 wrote: |
I do like kids, but I don't want to just be a 'babysitter'. |
Have you actually done babysitting before? |
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Voyager2
Joined: 24 Apr 2013
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| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 4:05 am Post subject: |
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| radcon wrote: |
| Teaching kindergarten is a woman's job. |
What nonsense. There are many capable, warm and professional male Early Childhood (0-8 years) teachers I know who have walked an academic path with not just K-3 Teacher quals but postgrad study up to Phd level. Open your eyes and resist perpetuating old gender myths. |
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Mike410
Joined: 23 Sep 2011
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 8:31 am Post subject: |
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| teacherbunny wrote: |
firstly I have seen many very good male kindergarten teachers..
The best thing is to love kids.. Of course there will be days when you are sick of it..
But I think it is a really fulfilling part of ESL.
Their whole English foundation is based on the building blocks you give them in these early years, and they learn so fast.
teaching kids that want to actually learn..
before they get to elementary and have all the fun taken out.
And the schedule is one of the best..
It does take a lot of energy though.
..excuse my lack of sentence and paragraph structure and anything else..
It is sunday my brain has taken a day off |
Thanks for your thoughts. I guess I won't know how I would find it until I experience it. |
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FastForward
Joined: 04 Jul 2011
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I like teaching kindergarten, because the kids want to be there and enjoy learning. When I taught elementary and middle school, the kids were forced to be there and it was really hard to teach them anything.
If you like kids and have a ton of energy, teaching kindergarten can be fun. |
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