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Janny
Joined: 02 Jul 2008
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What bothers me is that in Korea, employers hire "teachers" who have no business being in a classroom. How can you expect job satisfaction when you don't know how to do your job??
College graduates do NOT a teacher make. So many educated people, thrown into classrooms, set up for failure because they WANT to take pride in their jobs but have received NO training or preparation for how to succeed.
Teaching kids is an art, and it can not be done by just anybody. I, for one, am a certified teacher and I LOVE my job here. I am able to teach in my classroom however I choose, and I have adequate prep time. I get a comparable salary to my teacher peers back home. Every night I leave work feeling happy and fulfilled. I also get to leave my job at night and forget about it (ie. have a life). Teachers back home have an UNBELIEVABLE workload.
I don't know how I'll be able to leave. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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shifty
Joined: 21 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:32 am Post subject: |
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I believe a lot of this applies. To be honest with you, ESL is kind of a dead-end job. Who here after being in Korea several years has actually made any advancement?
If you leave one job it's usually the same pay with the other. It gets redundant, too, which may be another way of avoiding the word "boring" but sure the heck is true.
I'm thinking about moving on. Things have become just so unprofessional in this job field, if they ever were. What's more, who's going to go home here and say I've taught ESL for five years! They'll say So what. |
But, friggin but, you've been in it for a full nine years (9), NINE years, already!!! . In EFL, that's a lifetime!! No wonder they'll say 'So What'
especially as they saw how your eyes jumped about with the 5 years fib!
I'll say fib and not lie b/c your statement was only an expression.
The job by its nature is transitory, so explain the pedantic "unprofessional in this job field" especially as it relates to a rather lazy and unenterprising self that is you.
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:34 am Post subject: |
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| Janny wrote: |
What bothers me is that in Korea, employers hire "teachers" who have no business being in a classroom. How can you expect job satisfaction when you don't know how to do your job??
College graduates do NOT a teacher make. So many educated people, thrown into classrooms, set up for failure because they WANT to take pride in their jobs but have received NO training or preparation for how to succeed.
Teaching kids is an art, and it can not be done by just anybody. I, for one, am a certified teacher and I LOVE my job here. I am able to teach in my classroom however I choose, and I have adequate prep time. I get a comparable salary to my teacher peers back home. Every night I leave work feeling happy and fulfilled. I also get to leave my job at night and forget about it (ie. have a life). Teachers back home have an UNBELIEVABLE workload.
I don't know how I'll be able to leave. |
Yeah, teaching English is rocket science.  |
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Janny
Joined: 02 Jul 2008
Location: all over the place
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:55 am Post subject: |
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| Spoken like a true quasi-teacher. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:57 am Post subject: |
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| Janny wrote: |
| Spoken like a true quasi-teacher. |
Pfft. Dream on, peon. |
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