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MollyBloom
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 Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: SMOE high schools on App. form |
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What are the differences between Seoul Global High School, Seoul English Center, or Seoul Education Training Institute?
I'm reading the SMOE application and I have never heard of these before. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:10 am Post subject: |
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The poster "ddeubel" can probably answer this question better.
SETI is simply an institute that trains other teachers. Ask the poster "superdave" about working there.
I don't know specifics on the other 2 places. |
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ardis
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:08 am Post subject: |
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Ugh, I had a small run-in with the Seoul GHS. A lot of us SMOE peeps got an email a month or so ago asking for some helpers for a SGHS student orientation. We were told that the duties would be listening to debates and giving commentary, and we were assured we would NOT have any lesson plan/classroom duties. So for the extra money, it seemed ideal. As soon as we were all signed up, we got another email that said we needed 6 hours worth of lesson plans and that we'd have to lead discussion groups, assist in making a newspaper, play games, etc. I tried to pull out and politely said I wouldn't have signed up for it if they had listed those duties, but then they called my SCHOOL *and* my cellphone and tried to persuade me. The woman kept going, "but you're not going to BACK OUT, are you?" like it was my fault that they had lied in the email. Ugh. It was an annoying mess.
So yeah, that's all I know about SGHS. There seem to be some communication issues. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:53 am Post subject: |
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| ardis wrote: |
| There seem to be some communication issues. |
The SMOE ETIS program is a few years old now and still FULL of communication problems, many reoccur every hiring period. The head office is full of them, then each district seems to have different answers for similar questions and then each school often makes up their own answers. Only things explicit in the contract, or sometimes the handbook, can be relied on.
The recent issue of the drug test was a great example. First, SMOE tells the new teachers they must get their ARC card and medical check by the middle of March. Immi gives people 90 days. No where did SMOE put this in the contract. But then they sent everyone to the same hospital and made people wait numerous hours. Then they said later, "Oh, we told the hospital something different. Everyone needs to go back and have another blood test."
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:06 am Post subject: |
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
The poster "ddeubel" can probably answer this question better.
SETI is simply an institute that trains other teachers. Ask the poster "superdave" about working there.
I don't know specifics on the other 2 places. |
I kind of always wanted to be a teacher trainer...I'll PM those posters. |
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