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I'm With You
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| caomei513 wrote: |
| Thank you for the replies everyone! I'm going to check out the "Learning Teaching" book and also look into getting certification when my contract is up. If anyone has any more ideas, I would love to hear them. Thanks again! |
First, there's also a DVD that comes with the Scrivner text that you might also find helpful.
Second, How to Teach English and The Practice of English Language Teaching by Jeremy Harmer also with DVDs might be useful for you.
CELTA is the best idea, though. |
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Los Angeloser
Joined: 26 Aug 2010
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| Jodami wrote: |
| caomei513 wrote: |
| If anyone has any more ideas, I would love to hear them. Thanks again! |
Strongly recommend that you don't do a TEFL course. Instead, do a CELTA, which will be internationally recognized (if not so valuable in Korea). If you want to teach in another country, the CELTA will be far far more highly thought of. |
That sounds sensible, forget the TEFL. With additional job experience you will be trained on-the-job for S. Korea. All you need is material and practice and/or prep using it. Now, I hope you realize that no matter how well trained you are in S. Korea you will NEVER be a good enough teacher or should I say "qualified." One with an Eng. major or masters does get more credit than one without. However, a teacher who teaches at a public school or anywhere else for 3+ years doesn't get any more "qualification" credit, but might get a financial reward. What I mean to say is that no matter your level of education or experience, you're still a foreign teacher who has bad morals, fake credentials, AIDS and intentionally spreads it to Koreans, drugs and alcohol in his blood and on his possession, sexual assault and other crime in his mind. A teacher with 10 years of experience without an Eng./Lit. major, masters, TEFL, etc...still isn't "qualified" and neither is anybody else.
In the two cartoons below you'll see that we are just a bunch of fraud teachers who earn Korean money then run away with it.
http://www.segye.com/content/html/2009/08/09/20090809001862.html |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 2:17 am Post subject: |
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| caomei513 wrote: |
| Thank you for the replies everyone! I'm going to check out the "Learning Teaching" book and also look into getting certification when my contract is up. If anyone has any more ideas, I would love to hear them. Thanks again! |
If you haven't taken a TEFL course or it's "superior"  Oxford cousin CELTA, it would be a good idea to go through the book.
If you want to teach, have your documents in hand before you waste your time applying unless you are applying to EPIK, GEPIK. With EPIK or GEPIK you have some time after applying, except for written references.
You will need written recommendations from two references that are then scanned online. It would be good if at least one was a teaching reference or at least an academic reference. For EPIK I believe you have to have this on hand when applying. For other teaching jobs also.
You will also need an FBI CBC with an official stamp that you have to request when sending in the application, that is then taken and Apostilled by the US State Department. This takes some time, in some cases up to 2 months. For EPIK/GEPIK there is a deadline, for other teaching places if you don't have it on hand they won't even bother to return your inquiry.
You will need a notarized degree certificate that is Apostilled by your state.
You will need to have this on hand or if applying for EPIK/GEPIK by it's deadline. |
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