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stevieg4ever · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Location: London, England

...for your after school classes?

I have been told that I have to buy 50,000 won worth of books (the teacher's copies) for my school. Im EPIK by the way.

Is this common practice?

TheChickenLover · Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Location: The Chicken Coop

I've always purchased my own teaching materials. There is nothing more irritating than being given a pile of crap material to use. It's much easier to have your own material that you have experience in teaching with & use that.

Consider it part of your personal development. All teaching materials should be your own property.

Chicken

KYC · Joined: 11 May 2006

No. I would flat out refuse to. I was told there are funds I can use, but I've never bothered to. I just used the books they had & make extra worksheets to go along with them.

agoodmouse · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Location: Anyang

I bought a few New Cutting Edge and American Headway textbooks. I'll use one for my parents' class. The school offered to pay for it, but I felt I wanted to hang onto it after I left school. They probably would've let me have it anyway, but it was just 15,000 and I'm going to use it later on.

cbclark4 · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: Masan

Yes I buy them and then get re-imbursed from my employer.

Mi Yum mi · Joined: 28 Jan 2008

Your school gets 50 mil from the gov cause u r there. /they can pay 4 the books.

BS.Dos. · Joined: 29 Mar 2007

I brought a shed load of book over with me (mostly teaching reference books that are getting a bit dusty TBH through lack of use) and have purchased a couple more since I've been here, although I've just been told by our new library assistant/teacher that if I want any new books, then she'll order them for me and, presumably, the school will pick up the bill, provided of course that I don't take the pi55.

I don't begrudge laying out for new books. I picked up English Communication 2 the other week which is good. Comes with an audio CD and only cost 12,000 won and should easily be good for a semester, maybe two, and that's with using it thrice weekly with my HS 1st graders. Think everyone should have a broad arsenal in their language resource armoury.

spirit2110 · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:10 am Post subject:

Hell no! All the money that public schools get . . .

Somebody done told you wrong! Please.

stevieg4ever · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Location: London, England

this is what ive told by piece of phaeces good for nothing co teacher. ill get on to it.

Becka · Joined: 28 Sep 2005