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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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 Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:05 am Post subject: Being offered a non-teaching job |
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Well today for the second time in a month, it was hinted to me that it would be possible for me to move into an R&D position doing curriculum design and proof reading documents.
I'm at a large chain school (in fact one of the largest in Korea) and have only been at my job for 5 months. I asked if it would be possible to do it within the confines of my exsisting contract (meaning only staying in the job through the end of my contract) because I'm thinking of going home next year.
Does anyone have a take on this? |
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
Location: Boo-sahn
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| Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:12 am Post subject: |
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I was offered the same sort of thing at the last place I worked for for three years...it was also one of the "biggies." I'd recommend asking lots of questions regarding your teaching schedule and pay. Don't let them take advantage of you and start stressing you out on deadlines. It might be a good experience for you, but I would also be surprised if you get listed as a contributing author or editor. I turned my place down.
p.s. My brother-in-law also wants me to create some conversation texts that would be published by profs at SNU or somewhere. He's says it's a good financial opportunity. Because the others have the publishing connections that we don't, he says that they will be helping us to make money. Doesn't seem right to me. Maybe I'm just a fool, but making a little bit of money for lots of extra work that others will take credit for for doing almost nothing is sth that I don't really like too much. I turned him down, too. It's your choice though. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 3:39 am Post subject: |
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p.s. My brother-in-law also wants me to create some conversation texts that would be published by profs at SNU or somewhere. . |
Will they be edited or unedited authentic texts, or artificially created ones? I sure hope they are aiming for texts that attempt to resemble authentic discourse, with all its pauses, hesitations, umms, etc. |
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
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| Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 4:02 am Post subject: |
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| I think they just want to get published more without having to do any kind of work. I also don't think that they really care anything about content. I would hope that the texts would be professionally edited before being published. Anyway, I'm not wasting any time on my brother-in-law's harebrained ideas. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I think they just want to get published more without having to do any kind of work. I also don't think that they really care anything about content. I would hope that the texts would be professionally edited before being published. Anyway, I'm not wasting any time on my brother-in-law's harebrained ideas. |
Why am I not surprised? I've read a very interesting article on the subject of the status, or rather the failures, of English education in Korea. The researcher came to the conclusion that although ineffective Japanese policies have steered English education in Korea in the wrong direction, the real blame fall upon Koreans. As she was saying, the problems remain because the people who have the knowdledge to rewrite the policies and create effective teaching material, such as textbooks, are more interested in maintaining their positions in the ivory towers of academia than anything else. |
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