Korean Job Discussion Forums

[spinario]

Has anyone taught the SAT? Is the money good? Are the hours long? Would you do it again?

[PRagic]

If you do it, and you are qualified, then you should be paid a stupidly large amount of money. Prep schools are expensive. I'd ask to be paid by the student, and ask what the monthly tuition runs. Pack in a few classes, and you stand to make 10 million a month. Go for it if you can deal with test prep. That's where the money is.

[flotsam]

There is endless money in teaching SAT these days.

You may have to establish a rep first, so charge light--50 to 70 an hour--at first, but once your rep spreads, you can make absurd sums if you have the inclination.

[spinario]

If money is to be had, I wonder why more teachers aren't doing this?

Or maybe they are.

[identity]

you just teaching the verbal section? what kind of method do you use? i'm asking because my scores on both were really high, but i wouldn't know how to teach the verbal. i just knew the words, or could figure them out, you know?
also, where are you finding these jobs?

[matthews_world]

On the other hand, teaching TOIEC is normally reserved for the K-teachers and they tend to make decent money filling up large halls of students.

TOIEC's somewhat in the same ballpark as SAT and the new version includes speaking. Seoul and Daegu are the two main TOIEC testing centers.

[Zyzyfer]

Prepping for SAT classes is pretty intensive. It's not the kind of thing where you can walk in and say, "You just know this is right." You have to be able to explain why the correct answer is right and the others are wrong.

I did it for a while at my last job, and you can easily burn yourself out on it if you're not naturally good at explaining this stuff. You need to know all the test-taking strategies, how to apply them, and you need to do a lot of prep and anticipate all of the questions that your students might ask, because they won't be farting around with a class like this. I could probably run a decent ship now, but when I first started, I got tripped up left and right.

[robot]

i teach at an SAT prep school

the hours can be long -- up to 13 hours in the high-peak season

also the students are near-fluent, so you've really gotta know your stuff.

i wouldn't trade this job for any other, though...

ROBT.

[marcus]

What's the name of your prep school Robot?

[flotsam]

[Farnsworth]

thought you meant teaching saturday classes.. I was ready to launch into a tirade of reasons why not to.. but erm.. yeah.. ok.. never mind.