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[sojusucks]

http://ettc.ecampus-global.com/index.jsp

[jrwhite82]

I hAve to. Lame but most jobs require some kind of lame training.

[mzeno]

[sojusucks]

[mzeno]

[shcforward]

In my city (Daejeon), we called the office of education and they said that it was only required for teachers who have been here less than one year.

It looks like a disaster though. There are were more than a dozen English mistakes in the official document they sent out that described the course.

[matthews_world]

[wylies99]

My school brought it up. I don't know much about it but they're paying for it.

[poppy56]

Just be thankful that's all you have to do. The new Epik teaches in Daejeon that came in February had to do a 3 week in class training, in the evenings after being at school all day. At least this is online and you can do it during your down time at school.

[wylies99]

[Smee]

Teachers in Jeollanam-do were being told to do it from last year.

[notinKS]

I had to take it...I learned some useful websites for powerpoints, that's pretty much it. But by the time I took it, I had already been teaching in Korea for 3 months and I had taught in the States for 4 years before that. Mostly it was pretty boring and there were a LOT of English mistakes in the presentation.

[take a rest]

I did it.

I'm definitely not going to knock it... I think it's good that they're making an effort. For Joellanam-do teachers it's a requirement in order to work in Korea. But let's face it-- they're not exactly going to send you home, so it's really pretty easy.

I'm not sure if I should say this, but the videos are set up so you can just sort of scan through them without watching all 25 minutes... all of the main points are on the right hand side of the screen so you can just look at those instead of subjecting yourself to the guy talking for the whole 25 minutes.

Also, the final 'exam' is a ten question multiple choice quiz where a lot of the other options are so ridiculous that you'd be an idiot not to get most of them right... and they give you an hour to finish. Experienced teachers should pass with 100%.

[mmstyle]

I find it interesting that it says that it is supposed to teach you about co-teaching in the classroom. For those who have taken it, does it actually go into that? Because at my school, co-teaching involves me coming up with all of my own material and teaching it to the class, with occasional translation once the CT finally understands, and generally me trying to get the students to be quiet and pay attention, as my CTs generally do nothing of the kind. I teach MS. ALL "co-teaching" seminars and information I have been given has proven worthless, as my co-teachers are almost completely uninvolved.

[Kaypea]

I have to do this course as well. It doesn't look like a big, big burden, so I'll probably just do it as fast as I can when I'm supposed to do it.

I think the onus is on us (hehe) as far as co-teaching goes. I know the teachers at my school are too busy for big pow-wows, so I just kinda ask them to translate stuff for me sometimes. And they do.