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ajoy2277
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 Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:31 am Post subject: Jisan Ding Ding Dang Your Input |
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Hi,
I've been offered a position at Ding Ding Dang in Jisan. I haven't come across much negative stuff but a few sentences eluding to not teaching at a DDD school. Also, this position does require teaching on Saturdays. Before I accept the position can anyone give me any input on DDD schools, teaching on Saturdays and anything in general I should be aware of?
I've done a lot of research in the past few days and it's really hard to decipher 8 million opinions and decide whether this opportunity is right for me.
Thanks!
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nrvs
Joined: 30 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:25 am Post subject: Re: Jisan Ding Ding Dang Your Input |
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First of all, the school is named "DING DING DANG." Do you really want that on your resume? It's sure to make any hiring manager giggle, even for other Korean ESL jobs.
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| Also, this position does require teaching on Saturdays. |
This would be a deal-breaker for me. If you come from a culture with a 5-day workweek (as I'm sure you do if you're eligible for an E-2 visa), working 6 days a week is going to be draining after a couple months. I would be patient and look for a position with better hours, even if the pay is less. |
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Banana Bender
Joined: 24 Jun 2003
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As soon as you see the " S " word in a teaching contract, throw it in the waste paper bin.
Once in a while ( read once or twice a year ) is ok for special purposes, but for extended periods you will soon struggle.
Don't do it. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Ditto, what can they possibly offering you that's so good as to make a 6-day workweek worthwhile? |
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the eye
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| there are lots of kindergarten and prekindy classes at that location.... you'll be gray haired before the end of your contrat. |
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chronicpride
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:20 am Post subject: Re: Jisan Ding Ding Dang Your Input |
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| ajoy2277 wrote: |
Hi,
I've been offered a position at Ding Ding Dang in Jisan. I haven't come across much negative stuff but a few sentences eluding to not teaching at a DDD school. Also, this position does require teaching on Saturdays. Before I accept the position can anyone give me any input on DDD schools, teaching on Saturdays and anything in general I should be aware of?
I've done a lot of research in the past few days and it's really hard to decipher 8 million opinions and decide whether this opportunity is right for me.
Thanks!
April |
Above all else, make sure that you talk to teachers who used to work at the school. If the school is on the level, then they will let you talk to the teacher whom you are replacing and preferably teachers who used to work there. And for what it's worth, don't get too strong on the habit of turning down a job solely for something like having to work Saturdays. Turn it down because you acquired enough 1st hand info that the director is nuts, doesn't pay you, or the apt is a nightmare, or all of the other reasons which cause people to run from the job. When applying over the internet, its very tricky to qualify schools and you need to be careful not to accept a gig on the strength of its schedule and a 5 day work week, while overlooking glaring faults that may have caused the last 3 guys to run.
I was very lucky on my first contract that I landed, despite having to work Saturdays, as it was a dynamite school to work for on all levels. And I know people who sign on there for their 2nd and 3rd years, regardless of the Saturday classes, because of the great experience there and how much the school bends over backwards for them.
Try to get at least 2-3 numbers of teachers who have worked there in the past and also talk to the guy that you are replacing, so you can contrast the 1st hand accounts of how things were and how things are now. After initially filtering schools that way, then worry about filtering them for contract details and schedule matters. |
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