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mluo84
Joined: 26 Mar 2009
Location: NJ
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 Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:26 pm Post subject: English Village vs EPIK/regular public school job |
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| I'm talking to someone named June from Office of Education in Yeongju. Does anyone know anything about her? Anyways, she has two jobs available in June. One is teaching elementary school in an English Center/Village. There is an additional 500,000 won pay each month so I'm tempted to take it. She says this is a public school program. Does it have the same benefits as teaching for EPIK? Which program is better? Thanks in advance for the input guys. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Teaching at an English village is very different from a public school. I wouldn't trade the former for my job for W1,000,000 / month, but then I know others who wouldn't want to leave their camp jobs for mine. It all depends on the person. |
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mluo84
Joined: 26 Mar 2009
Location: NJ
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Do I get a coteacher? June said there are 6 other native teachers there. So I'm assuming no coteachers? This is going to be my first ESL/teaching job, I don't want to make a mistake. She seems to be moving the process fairly quickly. I emailed her yesterday. We chatted on Skype a few hours ago. Now she's sending me the contract in the mail. |
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wesharris
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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I work at a camp.
Personally I love it.
New kids every week.
New situations every month.
What's not to like.
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| mluo84 wrote: |
| Do I get a coteacher? June said there are 6 other native teachers there. So I'm assuming no coteachers? This is going to be my first ESL/teaching job, I don't want to make a mistake. She seems to be moving the process fairly quickly. I emailed her yesterday. We chatted on Skype a few hours ago. Now she's sending me the contract in the mail. |
At most English villages there are no co-teachers in the classrooms. If you're worried about starting out teaching for the first time, EVs are actually quite a good place to start. At the least you get a new class every week, if not every day. You could be the biggest *beep*-up of a teacher ever, and the next week or day can start afresh with a clean slate.
A whole year at an EV could seem like a long time, but it will likely be a much smoother introduction to Korea than a lot of PS jobs. You'll also have six foreign co-workers, at least some of whom will hopefully be helpful, as opposed to a PS, where you'd likely have zero. For newbies I think the ideal job would be a six-month gig at an EV, but contracts are almost always a year long.
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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For straight teaching a public school is better. An English Village is Edutainment jobs. It can range from everything from drama acting in a play singing and dancing to simply tending a shop in English. Also the Village has to be open all year round I can't see very good vacation packages.
On the other hand if you are energetic and don't want to hang around an office being the only foreigner the English village is the way to go. |
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alpope23
Joined: 15 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:02 am Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
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At most English villages there are no co-teachers in the classrooms. |
Source please, or is this opinion? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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At most English villages there are no co-teachers in the classrooms. |
Source please, or is this opinion? |
The teachers at my school district's English camp. The teachers from Daegu English Village. The teachers from Yungju Green English Village. The teachers from several other English villages / camps I've met.
The one exception I've heard of is teachers at Paju English Village who teach subjects other than English. However, the one teacher I saw teaching a media-type class there didn't appear to have a CT in the classroom. |
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