Korean Job Discussion Forums

jeni_escobar · Joined: 27 Oct 2008 Location: Gwangmyeung

Those of you who are doing broadcasts in your schools, are you receiving extra pay for them? If so, how much?

Thanks in advance!

Horangi Munshin · Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Location: Busan

I did that for about 10mins on Mondays last year and talking to the kids for 20mins at the gate before school on other days. I got leave 30mins early as compensation.

farrepatt · Joined: 27 Jan 2008

I did videos for my school every Friday and they played them for the kids each day. Each one was about 5-10 minutes long. They counted it as an hour of teaching time (which is 40 minutes of teaching for me at an elementary school). At the time I got overtime for it because it put me over 22 hours a week with GEPIK. However, if I had been under 22 hours I wouldn't have been paid for it.

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Countrygirl · Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Location: in the classroom

lifeinkorea · Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Location: somewhere in China

People get roped into doing a lot of weird stuff here.

xCustomx · Joined: 06 Jan 2006

My VP is going out of his way this year to show off to all the other schools in our area. I won't get into detail about some of his past English projects, but a couple weeks ago he decided that our school should broadcast some English videos to the students every morning. He wanted me to act out some dialogue with the Korean teachers and some students. I said that if he wanted to act in the videos with me then it wouldn't be a problem. He quickly gave up and bought some DVD from EBS, which features the infamous Isaac Durst

tob55 · Joined: 29 Apr 2007

We do a CCTV broadcast to our high school Mon - Thur for 15 minutes beginning at 8:30 am. It is scheduled during the homeroom time so as not to interfere with the regular class schedule. The time is calculated as 2 of my teaching hours every week, which means I have fewer "regular" classes during the week.

We wrote a conversational dialogue book for the broadcast only and it has worked well. This is my fourth year of morning broadcast, and it is monitored very closely by the VP of the school to ensure students are watching. Our school just mailed out a copy of our book to another school that wanted to look at it for their school as well.

It looks like morning broadcasting is beginning to be another way to get in a little extra language learning time for the students, but it is hard to actually say or know what impact it has had. I personally enjoy the time, because it is the one activity that is for the most part completely in my control as to the direction and nature of the structured learning.

It has been fun, and I am considering writing another conversational dialogue book for the morning broadcast. However, the language in the book is good enough that our students could see it over and over again, and still not get bored with it. No extra pay, but fewer classes during the regular class day.