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ddeubel
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 Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:04 am Post subject: M.S. and H.S. Teacher's Handbook - Essential |
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I've been looking for the thread where I promised to get this for teachers. Damned if I can find it - what's new with this web -3.0 board.
However, as promised here it is. Get the Handbook directly HERE. It's a larger download (24mb), so you can also read/skim it HERE.
It contains a lot of great lessons, activities, plans. A Camp section and also some basic info. which I wrote (coteaching, methodology, word/expression list) and more I added. This guidebook will be going to most new teachers in Korea (Epik / SMOE) and was meant to give some clarity and guidance to teacher's new to Korea. Could wait 'til the moon turns to cheese for those larger organizations (you know who they are) to get the job done and form committees to look at forming more committees to decide on if they might do this.....
Lots of lessons/activities on EFL Classroom 2.0 for all levels , Elementary to Secondary in Korean P.S.s. Recently had a lot of new materials addressing the specific needs of Korean P.S. teachers. Great additions.
Go to the Resources area and look under Korea.... (also a nice handbook for teachers coming to Seoul with lots of essential info. about teaching in Seoul - find it in the folder Handy things for newbies to Korea
Cheers,
DD
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detourne_me
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks, I will definitely give this a read-through |
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pandapanda
Joined: 22 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:14 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for this but... I just looked through it and it seems to be aimed at High School 1st grade, am I missing something? The annual plans all seem to be taken from their textbooks.
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This revision notification will be applied to each school and each grade as below:
a) 03/01/2009: Elementary school - grades one and two, Middle School - first year, High
school - first year
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Doesn't that mean this book should have stuff about MS 1 as well as ES 1 + 2?
I also don't really understand what Appendix 4 is other than some sentence structures.
Oh and as you make the setiteachers website I figure you'll know this if anyone will.. is it right that elementary schools will have more English in the curriculum from next year? If so, I assume this means new textbooks? When can we hope to see them?[/quote] |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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I'll give it a read during finals. So far I see very little that one couldn't figure out simply by looking over the new textbooks. It's missing a few practical tips, too, such as 'the best way to punish students who forget to bring both their textbook and activities book to class so that they'll bring it next time' or 'how to teach the textbook to vocational students who don't even know what "textbook" means and would find the first-year middle school textbook too difficult'.
It would also be nice if just for once they could get a native speaker to do a final edit so that the guide is in grammatical and idiomatic English and doesn't look like something written by people far from fully competent in the language themselves. |
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dean_burrito
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks I'll give it a look through and most definitely the camp part. What I've read does raise a couple of questions though about high school grade one.
You guys get to use a text book for your classes? or at least have the option of using one? Wow. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks I'll give it a look through and most definitely the camp part. What I've read does raise a couple of questions though about high school grade one.
You guys get to use a text book for your classes? or at least have the option of using one? Wow. |
From what you've said of your students there's probably very little in the book you could use, at any rate. At least half your students have probably 'lost' theirs, too. My vocational students are at least controllable - i.e. they stay in their seats and I can get them to shut-up, repeat, copy answers, and sometimes even get 75% of them working on something on their own for at least a while- and most of the grammar in the textbook is still way above at least half of them. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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Panda,
I'll be uploading everything today with nice short documents for all the parts not in this general guide. M.S. plans will be there. Teachers can then just click on what is relevant for them. But it will take some time to edit, extract parts etc....
Indeed there will be new textbooks (if schools decide to buy them) for elementary but I'm not aware of the timetable. I'll look into it. There are new Elementary Guides in English and I will also have them online shortly. I was part of the process of developing the M.S. / H.S. texts but not these, so I'm not much in the loop.
In most school districts, the English program will be expanded in terms of hours / week and grades at the Elementary level. And then we have that big "ghost" hanging over everyone's head - TETE (Teaching English Through English).
YBS - Let's face it, this is Korea. This handbook was made by hardworking teachers with students/classrooms. Minimal compensation but a big desire to help foreign teachers. I don't think the language is that bad - I think you are nitpicking.
This is also meant to be available ONLINE. This is my own doing because I know it will be invaluable to new teachers not yet in Korea or in the P.S. system and also because so many teachers write me and tell me that they don't have this book in their school nor have teacher's guides in English etc.....
I'll post here when I've made the page for downloading the above mentioned parts. Thanks,
DD
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teachergirltoo
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| dean_burrito wrote: |
Thanks I'll give it a look through and most definitely the camp part. What I've read does raise a couple of questions though about high school grade one.
You guys get to use a text book for your classes? or at least have the option of using one? Wow. |
All native English speaker teachers can have access to the textbook for their grade. It is the same one that the Korean teachers use. Then you can use the same core material and just enhance it to enforce the lessons they are taught in the Korean English class. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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Panda,
I'll be uploading everything today with nice short documents for all the parts not in this general guide. M.S. plans will be there. Teachers can then just click on what is relevant for them. But it will take some time to edit, extract parts etc....
Indeed there will be new textbooks (if schools decide to buy them) for elementary but I'm not aware of the timetable. I'll look into it. There are new Elementary Guides in English and I will also have them online shortly. I was part of the process of developing the M.S. / H.S. texts but not these, so I'm not much in the loop.
In most school districts, the English program will be expanded in terms of hours / week and grades at the Elementary level. And then we have that big "ghost" hanging over everyone's head - TETE (Teaching English Through English).
YBS - Let's face it, this is Korea. This handbook was made by hardworking teachers with students/classrooms. Minimal compensation but a big desire to help foreign teachers. I don't think the language is that bad - I think you are nitpicking.
This is also meant to be available ONLINE. This is my own doing because I know it will be invaluable to new teachers not yet in Korea or in the P.S. system and also because so many teachers write me and tell me that they don't have this book in their school nor have teacher's guides in English etc.....
I'll post here when I've made the page for downloading the above mentioned parts. Thanks,
DD
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It's a start - certainly better than nothing. But, to speak of 'thinking outside the box', it doesn't really offer a great deal of ideas. Today in first block my first-year HS students didn't even open their textbooks as we spent a whole lesson responding to our pen-friends in Thailand. I've never seen so many students try so hard first to read and understand something and then to try writing prose (which generally sucked, but was still way better than the 'Let's Write' component of the textbook chapter). Some guy I met on Ajarn.com is providing me with the greatest reading and writing material I've ever used for motivating students to write, and I can only hope that I'm doing the same for him. While yes, I do use the textbooks and think they can be useful, knowing when to 'sod the book' is also something important at times, too.
As for the level of writing, it's generally comprehensible, but how many waegooks do they have working at SMOE HQ? Could one of them not have spared a couple days to edit this? The fact that they put hundreds of hours into compiling this but couldn't spare a dozen to edit it really speaks volumes about how education in Korea works. Every FT could use a heads-up re: Korea's 'can do' attitude and 'that will do' work ethic so evident in this publication. |
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dean_burrito
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks I'll give it a look through and most definitely the camp part. What I've read does raise a couple of questions though about high school grade one.
You guys get to use a text book for your classes? or at least have the option of using one? Wow. |
All native English speaker teachers can have access to the textbook for their grade. It is the same one that the Korean teachers use. Then you can use the same core material and just enhance it to enforce the lessons they are taught in the Korean English class. |
I was being a little sarcastic. I'm lucky (really lucky) to get ten pencils in a class out of 35. I used to not let anyone in without a pencil but that quickly turned into students not bringing a pencil on purpose and roaming the campus and disturbing other classes.
I would say half my students are probably good as any student in Korea. The other half well, they didn't even get past hello on the speaking test. Life would be easier if classes were split by level. But how important is the English at a technical school? I wish SMOE would do something more to address issues like this. Afterall they are the ones that keep sending teachers to these places. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:05 am Post subject: |
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I got around to uploading and editing all these handbooks for foreigners. All in English and your the first to get a look.
Go HERE
Also much more available in the Korea folder of EFL Classroom 2.0 for P.S. teachers in Korea. Also, great materials as mentioned, submitted by other P.S. teachers. Go HERE but also check out the SMOE group for more info....
YBS wrote:
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| As for the level of writing, it's generally comprehensible, but how many waegooks do they have working at SMOE HQ? Could one of them not have spared a couple days to edit this? The fact that they put hundreds of hours into compiling this but couldn't spare a dozen to edit it really speaks volumes about how education in Korea works. Every FT could use a heads-up re: Korea's 'can do' attitude and 'that will do' work ethic so evident in this publication. |
Contrary to what YBS wrote the handbooks are in very good / fluent English and professionally laid out. There are ideas there - lots of them. YBS, I suggest you look at education in other parts of the world. There are the same problems with administration, laziness, disorganization in most (if not all) educational jurisdictions around the world. That you just continually harp about "Korea" without talking about this, suggests a bitterness that you'd be best to try and wean out of yourself..... You seem to do a great job teaching - it would be even better without the "generalizing" chip on your shoulder.
I hope new, soon to be and even hardened veteran teachers take a look at these and materials and use them. Even if just to freshen up on the methodology or coteaching sections I've written.
Cheers,
DD
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pandapanda
Joined: 22 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:49 am Post subject: |
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Panda,
I'll be uploading everything today with nice short documents for all the parts not in this general guide. M.S. plans will be there. Teachers can then just click on what is relevant for them. But it will take some time to edit, extract parts etc....
Indeed there will be new textbooks (if schools decide to buy them) for elementary but I'm not aware of the timetable. I'll look into it. There are new Elementary Guides in English and I will also have them online shortly. I was part of the process of developing the M.S. / H.S. texts but not these, so I'm not much in the loop.
In most school districts, the English program will be expanded in terms of hours / week and grades at the Elementary level. And then we have that big "ghost" hanging over everyone's head - TETE (Teaching English Through English).
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Thanks for those, only link that doesn't work now is MS2 part 2 which is apparently http://eflclassroom.com/pptsps/mshandbook2.hwp but that gives me a 404.
I now get to see my MS are using a 2nd grade book from 2001 and a 3rd grade one from 2002... at least the 1st grade book is 2008. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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YBS wrote:
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| As for the level of writing, it's generally comprehensible, but how many waegooks do they have working at SMOE HQ? Could one of them not have spared a couple days to edit this? The fact that they put hundreds of hours into compiling this but couldn't spare a dozen to edit it really speaks volumes about how education in Korea works. Every FT could use a heads-up re: Korea's 'can do' attitude and 'that will do' work ethic so evident in this publication. |
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The guide you posted is 'fluent' but has some incredibly awkward sentences with atrocious syntax. Maybe things are just as bad in Yemen or Ghana - I don't know; however when an organisation that employs over 1,000 native speakers puts out something like that it suggests a serious, systemic inability to utilise resources properly. But yes, it's "pretty good for something Koreans wrote".
Since you, like me, are so fond of music in the classroom I suggest that the next time you're doing a workshop for Korean teachers you teach them this:
[to the tune of 'If You're Happy and You Know it']
If you're gunna get it printed first you check [clap clap]
You gotta give it to the waegook to correct [clap clap]
Don't just send it to the printer
In a mad dash like a sprinter
First you give it to the waegook to correct [clap clap] |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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YBS,
I appreciate your wish of "perfection" but I'd suggest you might be a little too absolute and prescriptionist for "Language". I'm sure science would suit you much better and might be a future teaching career move.
Panda - thanks for that. I've spent hours converting or rather trying to convert these to pdf and a lower file size. Many won't but I'll continue to pluck settings and try my best.
http://setiteachers.ning.com/forum/topics/hs-ms-and-elementary
In the meantime, I've reuploaded those materials. Everything should work now but M.S. 2 is a full hwp file but very large.
All these can also be found in the Resources - Korea area on EFL Classroom 2.0
Cheers,
DD
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| ddeubel wrote: |
YBS,
I appreciate your wish of "perfection" but I'd suggest you might be a little too absolute and prescriptionist for "Language". I'm sure science would suit you much better and might be a future teaching career move.
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LOL I completely suck at science (and mathematics). I'm lucky I didn't go to school in Korea or I never would have made it into university.
When I was a uni TA a student once wrote on his evaluation 'He's more like an English teacher than a History teacher'. I suppose that choosing the right field to teach is always a bit of a guessing game. |
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