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chellovek
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| I had to take it...I learned some useful websites for powerpoints, that's pretty much it. But by the time I took it, I had already been teaching in Korea for 3 months and I had taught in the States for 4 years before that. Mostly it was pretty boring and there were a LOT of English mistakes in the presentation. |
Which websites for powerpoints? |
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notinKS
Joined: 11 Jul 2010
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chellovek
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks alot, much appreciated. |
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K-Dog
Joined: 14 Apr 2009
Location: SoKo
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Think some KTs could do with taking this course, so they know whats required of them.  |
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Seoul'n'Corea
Joined: 06 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Just be thankful that's all you have to do. The new Epik teaches in Daejeon that came in February had to do a 3 week in class training, in the evenings after being at school all day. At least this is online and you can do it during your down time at school. |
I totally agree with the orientation training for EPIK. The school system in Korea is SO backwards and mismanaged, you really need a disaster training course to navigate it first.
Even with the 1 week briefing, it's still not enough. |
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ippy
Joined: 25 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:34 am Post subject: |
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Dear Korea,
Please please please please scrap all the culture things and instead give me 100 hours of korean lessons. Make them mandatory, hell even initiate a 60% pass mark (if its good enough for the driving theory test its good enough for my language skills), and if i fail 3 times in a row kick me out of the country. But for the love of god, nothing will improve my appreciation (in the neutral sense) of korean culture than being happy communicating with my collegues and other koreans beyond hello! Oh! and since you keep insisting i teach classes on my own to kids who cant understand "i want to..." then a spot of korean ability would definitely help me as a teacher! Wheee! win win!
Honestly, Id do it myself but i dont work well without pressure  actually i dont work at all. So if youre gonna make me do daft seminars at least make them relevant and useful thanks.
And you know what, instead of feeling burdened, ill feel that korea is actually giving me free language lessons which is just neat. Thanks korea! |
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nathanrutledge
Joined: 01 May 2008
Location: Marakesh
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my coworker told me that there was another orientation coming up and that I HAD to go to it. I asked what it was about and she said it would talk about Korean society and culture. I told her that I've already been here a few years and I know Korean culture quite well, and that if I had to waste my time at this Korean culture meeting, I would hang myself in the bathroom.
I don't think she got my Korean culture joke. I still have to go. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| ippy wrote: |
Dear Korea,
Please please please please scrap all the culture things and instead give me 100 hours of korean lessons. Make them mandatory, hell even initiate a 60% pass mark (if its good enough for the driving theory test its good enough for my language skills), and if i fail 3 times in a row kick me out of the country. But for the love of god, nothing will improve my appreciation (in the neutral sense) of korean culture than being happy communicating with my collegues and other koreans beyond hello! Oh! and since you keep insisting i teach classes on my own to kids who cant understand "i want to..." then a spot of korean ability would definitely help me as a teacher! Wheee! win win!
Honestly, Id do it myself but i dont work well without pressure actually i dont work at all. So if youre gonna make me do daft seminars at least make them relevant and useful thanks.
And you know what, instead of feeling burdened, ill feel that korea is actually giving me free language lessons which is just neat. Thanks korea! |
It would help if the "culture" lessons had something to do with living and functioning in Korea and the cultural differences. Instead it's just hours of "Kimchi is good." |
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