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nizpaz · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Location: Seoul, South Korea

So rumours are buzzing that from March English will be taught by homeroom teachers only in Seoul elementary schools and there will not be any Englishee only subject teachers. The NT will work with all the homeroom teachers instead. The classes will come to the English room with the homeroom T. Or the NT will visit all the homeroom classes. Apparently a lot of schools piloted the scheme this year.

Anyone heard anything?

branchsnapper · Joined: 21 Feb 2008

It's funny if that is the brave new policy, because that happens in all backward rural schools where there is no other option.

Xuanzang · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Sadang

I can say that my students` quality of education is going to drop then as most of the other homeform teachers dont know English.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Well that's going to leave everything up to the FTs 95% of the time. I can't imagine what it would be like to be a HR teacher who hasn't studied English for 20 years and having kids who've gone to hagwons with FTs five times a week for five years in the class.

pandapanda · Joined: 22 Sep 2007

Yeah that's how it works in every school I've worked at. What a revelation.

nomad-ish · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject:

if this is the case, doesn't SMOE have an elementary school curriculum for foreign teachers to follow anyways?