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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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 Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:44 am Post subject: You gusy forgot an Article RR you lazy git |
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http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200606/kt2006061519291754070.htm
someone making sense?
Hire teachers who have taught in elementary, middle and high schools, who have taught English, who have taught ESL or English literature, who have done teacher training, instead of hiring native speakers who would not be given any kind of public, elementary, high school and especially university teaching jobs (unless they volunteered to be tutors with no pay) never mind doing actual teacher training in Canada, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, or New Zealand. Second, ensure that the ministry monitors itself and individual boards so that they support the ministry's purported efforts to give Korean English language teachers what they need to do their job in a classroom. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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Well, you certainly don't. Check your spelling eh? 
The article certainly makes a lot of sense though, yes. Pay qualified teachers more though if you want to only get "qualified teachers". A lof more. Considering the big teacher shortage in Korea currently though, they'll be lucky to get who they can. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Why would a highly qualified teacher come here? |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| Why would a highly qualified teacher come here? |
Highly qualified teachers want to experience "Dynamic Korea."
Highly qualified teachers might come to Korea to meet some of the highest paid tenured teachers on the planet.
Salaries of Korean Teachers
South Korea salaries go from $25,000 up to $60,000 (GDP/person: $12,000). Korean teachers are supposed to be the best-paid ones in the world with regard to the real income.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher#Salaries
In Germany, Ireland, South Korea, and Switzerland, among others, teachers earn at least twice the GDP per capita.
US Teacher Pay Low By International Rates
http://www.veaweteach.org/search_results_detail.asp?ContentID=324
Teachers in Korea have guaranteed tenure until they reach the mandatory retirement age.
Annual Korean teacher salaries (US$), public schools (with minimum training)
Starting Salary: 25,177
After 15 years: 42,845
Top of Scale: 68,581
Source:
Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers: Country Note: Korea
John Coolahan, Paulo Santiago, Rowena Phair and Akira Ninomiya
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Directorate for Education, Education and Training Policy Division
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/26/49/31690991.pdf |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Guri Guy wrote: |
| Well, you certainly don't. Check your spelling eh? |
Yeah sorry about that
it was 4 AM for me  |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:42 am Post subject: |
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| Just teasing you about the spelling. The article was interesting. Korea is facing increasing competition for teachers in Asia. Vietnam and China are offering better and better compensation packages and wages are going up. Korea will have to change or the current teacher shortage will get even worse. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| Guri Guy wrote: |
| Just teasing you about the spelling. The article was interesting. Korea is facing increasing competition for teachers in Asia. Vietnam and China are offering better and better compensation packages and wages are going up. Korea will have to change or the current teacher shortage will get even worse. |
And the greater the shortage, the greater the probable questionable quality of teachers? |
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Paji eh Wong
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:26 am Post subject: |
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It was a good article but I disagree with the conclusion.
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| I do believe that if these things are done by your ministry, you will have no problem with your teachers performing admirably and your children receiving the English language education that they should have. |
It's a chicken and egg dilemma. Koreans will preform admirably when they make up their minds to, not when they get training from properly educated trainers. It doesn't matter how good their training is if they aren't ready to teach English communicatively.
Oh, and Koreans do get the English language education they should have. That's the most depressing thing I've learned in Korea. The customer always gets what they deserve. |
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