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giantyogurt
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Location: Calgary, AB
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 Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 6:09 am Post subject: What does a 'perfect' hagwon have? |
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I'd like to know what you as teachers or employees expect/demand from hagwon management? What are your pet-peeves at your work? How do you think it can be improved?
Let's make a list of them and make it known to all the hagwon owners to see! |
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kimcheeking
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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More than 1 minutes notice on schedule changes
more than 1 minutes notice about anything actually
classroom rules that are enforced
reasonable maximum class sizes that are enforced
students that are appropriately levelled and not allowed to go to a level just because thier friend is their
no automatic advancement. If your english sucks you fail.
paid on time
single housing (reasonable size - at least 8 pyoung) with a bed, fridge, washer, & basic utensils included
a resource library
a photocopier that works
a director that speaks English, and has at least a rudimentary understanding of the cultural differences between Korea and other western nations |
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weened
Joined: 10 Feb 2003
Location: May you live to be a thousand years.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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respect
dignity
trust
actual vacation time to be taken at my discretion
true orientation
clear rewards for accomplishment
clear reasons for censure
a structured curriculum that makes sense and follows through for all ages
and a great-big heaping helping of what the King said. |
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sickboy
Joined: 26 Jan 2003
Location: Miari Texas
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 6:37 am Post subject: |
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| An elementary school to work at! |
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Crazy Oz
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Ilsan, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 7:44 am Post subject: |
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Kids who are actually there to learn, and teachers who want to teach. End of discussion.
Still crazy, still here. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 7:47 pm Post subject: ohh yes |
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man I too have to go with a toilet!
man how many times I want to take a dump in a nice clean toilet and what you find is some shit hole in the ground cant relax on that man..
a nice toilet,
cool teachers!! very important need other foreigners there who are alright peeps! no freaks, retard losers types...
director who will stay out of my face!
nice korean girl secretaries.. 
and when I say nice I mean NICE!!! )))
and kids who are not spoiled little apkujeong brats!! who keep talking about how rich their father is and why they dont have to do homework because their father is so rich!!!
but just give me the toilet!!!! |
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sid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Berkshire, England
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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A few times at my old school our team director caught me or a co-worker having a post-kindergarten lunchtime nap on the desk or the classroom floor (a clean room where people had to take their shoes off!).
Several weeks later a empty office upstairs was converted into.... a sleeping room for the foreign teachers! Definitely a place for one of those in our perfect hagwon. |
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Seoulman_70
Joined: 21 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| What an opportunity to rant for several days but you have heard it all before.. but the crappy photo copier really salted an open wound. Our photo copier was recently replaced with yet another piece of crap. Why do owners refuse to invest in there business.... It really boggles the mind!! |
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Marathe
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: Spider Hole
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| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| kimcheeking wrote: |
More than 1 minutes notice on schedule changes
more than 1 minutes notice about anything actually
classroom rules that are enforced
reasonable maximum class sizes that are enforced
students that are appropriately levelled and not allowed to go to a level just because thier friend is their
no automatic advancement. If your english sucks you fail.
paid on time
single housing (reasonable size - at least 8 pyoung) with a bed, fridge, washer, & basic utensils included
a resource library
a photocopier that works
a director that speaks English, and has at least a rudimentary understanding of the cultural differences between Korea and other western nations |
wow.
i seriously am not being sarcastic.
but other people don't have this?
i knew there had to be a plus to living in damn dirty eonyang. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| kimcheeking wrote: |
More than 1 minutes notice on schedule changes
more than 1 minutes notice about anything actually
classroom rules that are enforced
reasonable maximum class sizes that are enforced
students that are appropriately levelled and not allowed to go to a level just because thier friend is their
no automatic advancement. If your english sucks you fail.
paid on time
single housing (reasonable size - at least 8 pyoung) with a bed, fridge, washer, & basic utensils included
a resource library
a photocopier that works
a director that speaks English, and has at least a rudimentary understanding of the cultural differences between Korea and other western nations |
In other words kind of like a teaching job in the West? |
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