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[fromtheuk]

If you are simply a graduate with no teaching qualifications or experience before coming to Korea, and you feel anxious. That's natural.

I have been teaching at a public school for just under 1.5 years at a public elementary school with GEPIK. I had no teaching experience or qualifications before I came to Korea.

I'm quite proud of the fact I did no preparation at all, as regards learning to teach before I came. I felt I had the ability to learn on the job.

Thankfully, that's exactly what I did and it worked for me. I worked hard, read this forum and surfed the net for resources.

I was quite pathetic when I first began to teach but I am now very competent and I can teach well.

Please ignore some of the posters on this forum who think they are entitled to look down on others simply because they possess teaching experience or a teaching qualification. Sadly, some of these individuals probably have an awful American accent which means they murder this lovely language, everytime they think they are enlightening their poor students.

What I'm saying is if you have some confidence in your ability as a human, are a native speaker of English and have a degree from an English-speaking country, this job is very easy. And if you start off badly but persevere, it gradually becomes easier.

In fact, many native speakers without a degree could do this job, it's a joke. Which makes the condescending remarks about newbies on this forum all the more laughable, arrogant and delusional.

I am not 'doing down' this job but I just want to say some of our ESL colleagues in Korea are nothing but losers, who try to portray themselves as professionals. In reality, they are irrelevant and know it. The only way they can overcome their inadequacy is by discouraging others.

Look at their posts, half of them can't even spell properly. I'm currently doing an online TEFL course, not to learn anything.

I'm doing it so I can use it as a stick to beat people with as I socialize with my fellow success stories while sipping our tea.......

Me: But, what's your philosophy behind teaching the past tense Henrietta?

H: I want to stimulate student motivation while allowing them to self-correct where possible. What's your philosophy Me?

Me: I want to save as much won as I can, mock the arrogance of the idiots who think they are the establishment in ESL, even though nobody elected them but themselves in their own minds.

Lastly, if you are teaching regular class, you should have a textbook to write your lesson plans with. If you have an after school class and are strugggling like I used to. Here is an idea of a simple lesson plan:

Intro - How's the weather? How are you? (Ask each student to drag it out) 5 mins

If the subject is sports, write 15 words about sport and make a word search using puzzlemaker.com

Give the students 10 minutes to do it.

Then, take the word search sheets from the students and ask them to write down as many sports as they can, in teams (10 minutes)

Ask them for their answers and write them on the board (5 mins)

Play hangman, say I will think of a sport and write down blank spaces for each letter of the word e.g. _ _ _ _ for golf.

Go to each team for a letter in turns until they guess it.

Keep doing this until the end of the lesson.

If you can use power point, use images of sports and introduce the topic to the class that way. For worksheets you can modify and other useful printable resources try this site:

www.bogglesworldesl.com

Thank you for listening and all the best

[poet13]

Your laisse faire about the whole process of teaching and learning as a teacher negates the positive things you have to say....like about perservering and effort.

[D.D.]

I thought it was a good read until I saw your boring excuses for lesson plans. Is that all you can come up with after a year and a half of teaching?

[cruisemonkey]

"Drag it out"?

That's not a lesson plan - all you've done is a half-assed vocabulary introduction.

[fromtheuk]

If you can read, I said this was a simple lesson plan i.e. for people with no clue about what to do

I use powerpoints myself.

[poet13]

The point was is that what you wrote, as it stands, doesnt constitute a lesson plan.
I have edited and reposted your original OP...It makes you look much better...




"If you are simply a graduate with no teaching qualifications or experience before coming to Korea, and you feel anxious. That's natural.

I have been teaching at a public school for just under 1.5 years at a public elementary school with GEPIK. I had no teaching experience or qualifications before I came to Korea.

I did no preparation at all, as regards learning to teach before I came. I felt I had the ability to learn on the job.

Thankfully, that's exactly what I did and it worked for me. I worked hard, read this forum and surfed the net for resources.

I was quite pathetic when I first began to teach but I am now very competent and I can teach well.

Please ignore some of the posters on this forum who think they are entitled to look down on others simply because they possess teaching experience or a teaching qualification.

What I'm saying is if you have some confidence in your ability as a human, are a native speaker of English and have a degree from an English-speaking country, this job is very easy. And if you start off badly but persevere, it gradually becomes easier.

In fact, many native speakers without a degree could do this job, it's a joke. Which makes the condescending remarks about newbies on this forum all the more laughable, arrogant and delusional.
"

[fromtheuk]

If somebody is 'drowning' as a teacher you want to just fill the 40 minutes to start with.

So pick a topic, start with a general intro, do a word search, ask students to recall anything from the word search or add new words and then play hangman until it ends.

If you can use powerpoint then you can introduce the lesson with that and use it for the students to practice with.

Bogglesworld also has some good handouts you can use. That's the point.

[dean_burrito]

Don't be discouraged fellow language murderers. You to can become as an effective time killer as this guy with such class thrillers as word searches and hangman.
But if you'd rather make quality time then by all means learn a little about teaching philosophy. A TEFL course can go a long way.
Hangman does have its time and place though. Main thing to remember is if it's fun for you, then it will be fun for your students.

[poet13]

If someone is drowning as a teacher, then they need to educate themselves quick fast. Until that person is educated on how to prepare and present a lesson plan, then they should go online and download a few pre-made lesson plans to help them get started.

Downloading word searches and playing games as lame as hang man is not teaching. Those are end of semester post exam reward activities.

I'd be interested in seeing one of your lesson plans. I mean a full, typed out lesson plan.

[fromtheuk]

I usually use a fantastic website which has enough different activities on the same topic to last me a lesson and it's fairly interesting.

I have 17 regular attendees for my grade 3/4 special class. I have about 8 for my grade 5/6 class, but I put that down to kids lacking interest in anything for those grades.

I'm not sharing my lesson plans on here. You must be desperate!

[thatwhitegirl]

[fromtheuk]

It's here here, isn't it?!!

[crusher_of_heads]

[thatwhitegirl]

[fromtheuk]

Just keeping you on your toes tefl-teacher

I'm 11 units away from joining the teacherati. Go ITTT!