Korean Job Discussion Forums

giantyogurt · Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Location: Calgary, AB

How does it work? Any success?

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

I do. I don't think it's as effective as teaching in person. I think there are some other threads on this unless they have been deleted.

sadsac · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Gwangwang

My wifes been doing it for a student, who is the daughter of a friend for over two years, quite successfully. Depends on the people. Smile

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

I did it for a year!! its cool.. it was easy to teach very laid back..
effective!? emmmm depends.. good for the teacher? depends on you..

skindleshanks · Joined: 10 May 2004

My colleague did it while he was finishing a double masters and figures it's just a sweatshop and not much better than flipping burgers once you pay all the taxes (nice run-on sentence, eh?).

But the same guy is keeping his French and Spanish up with teachers on the net.

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

saharzie · Joined: 22 Jan 2003

I worked in the same place as Zed and agree with him. Very laid back and no real stress apart from the constant tech-problems. Idiotic parents were the main problem, where the mother repeats what you say before the kid can and messes it up.

Me: I like chocolate
Mother: I luookeee chicolateee
Kid: Rin Holooonoid Chipolmonkey

Obviously the managers were too spineless to tell the mothers where to go o I used to sit there in silence until the mother rang the conpany to find out what was wrong..then normally the manager would tell the non English speaking mother to leave.
The late hours were the best part meaning you could drink til dawn and be ok. How are the amount of classes now Zed? I remember having 2 and 3 hour breaks.

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

There are only 2 foreign teachers here in the office now and 2 that teach remotely. I don't have the breaks that you did by the sounds of it but still Monday and Tuesday are sparse. Wednesday to Friday is usually the full set of classes. If they would do something to improve the curriculum/set-up here I'm sure things would be more effective, but, as you know, the management is deaf to anything the teachers might say.

I wonder how the remote teachers deal with tech problems. We have a technician here in the office. Do they get paid in full if they can't fix their problem? Fortunately, with the technician here, that isn't considered to be my problem. It's one of my fears about setting myself up in Bangkok (or somewhere) to do it.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

I really like the idea of remote teaching in Thailand or Philippines.

I suppose I should have done it here in Spain.. but my Summer is going to be so messed up schedule-wise.. they need too much consistency for me at this time.

saharzie · Joined: 22 Jan 2003

Maybe when wifi becomes the norm it will be possible to teach remotely..get a worldwide cellphone, a wifi compatible laptop, a wifi area and hey presto, you can teach kids in Korea from the beach in Koh Samet!

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Our former employer offered the opportunity to me after I finished the contract last month.. but I figured it would be better if I devote my time to this graduate degree for the time being.. complete a long-term goal I�ve had for myself.

But believe me.. many times I can�t help but think how sweet that would be to be remote teaching in southeast Asia right now!!

I may ask again at the end of this year after I�ve completed all of my coursework. We�ll see.. tempting!! Not sure if the offer will still stand at that place or not though.. we�ll see.. I think it probably would..