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[cle2kor]

*THIS IS NOT A TROLLING THREAD*


Remember the above as you read on. . .

I'm licensed, spent 5 years of my life eating, sleeping and breathing education in college. Did my time in classes, observed hours and hours of classes and watching other teachers, did my student teaching--basically put my due in.

Now, I understand it doesn't take a rocket scientist to teach English, but I can't help to feel my occupation being "tarnished" by basket weavers whose first choice was to solely come here for the "adventure" and get wasted-drunk with their friends on the weekends in Itaewon. How would you business majors like it if I encroached on your field, asking for your jobs with NO experience and NO education in YOUR field? Would you be full of glee?
Not to mention the crappy rep "my kind" brought to "your profession" by the behavior that has been on display for quite some time now in this country.

I have come across more threads than I'd like to have seen stating that "I'm deciding to come to Korea to teach English." Like what? I just spent 5 years out of my life for nothing learning how to be a teacher? You mean I could have been a basket weaver and still came here on a whim to "teach?" I just feel a bit jaded that my "profession" is open to anyone and my years of education has moreorless been invalidated. And furthermore, now I have a difficulty finding a job IN MY FIELD because of these other grads in God-knows-what pouring in like Noah's Flood. Aint right. Yeah, I know it's Korea to blame for the qualifications accepted to teach here, but still.

Now I know this thread will get BASHED by the fragile-minded "teachers" out there, but keep in mind, this is my first love: teaching.
This is your after thought after a failed attempt to get a job in your home country. Show what little empathy you may have when responding. I understand this may even offend the Mods (please look upon this thread with an unbiased, empathetic view), so this thread may not last long anyway...

Teaching isn't for everyone, and I applaud you if you are a good teacher even if you didn't go to college for it, but the ones that come here and make a mockery of my profession I have a particular disdain for.

I will take your comments now with a hasty spirit now knowing that you're all seething after i just inadvertently dismissed your worth as a professional "teacher."

Eh. I'm ready.

[DIsbell]

Trollbait that doesn't try to obscure itself? I like; I'll bite.

I'm not a licensed teacher, and I never want to be.

Licensed teachers are, by the numbers, largely trained to teach in standard K-12 environments, typically in their native tongue and to shared L1 speaking students. Licensed teachers devote much of their studies to meeting local/regional/national standards and/or getting certified to teach subjects such as non-English foreign languages, math, or science. They complete practicum assignments in their native country's public school, and if they teach English it's mostly as L1 literature and composition- not a foreign or even second language.

Unless you're at an international school, may I ask what you're doing in Korea teaching EFL? You aren't trained to do this. You aren't a certified EFL teacher. You're barely more qualified than a basket-weaver by virtue of having your hand held by an experienced public school teacher in a public school back home for a few months... but it sounds like you couldn't score that gig as a full-time job back home.

Get a TEFL/TESL/CELTA with a relevant practicum. Until then, try to refrain from tarnishing my profession.







p.s. non-business majors enter business all the time.

[cle2kor]

[cle2kor]

Sorry, double post.

[DIsbell]

[Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida]

You spent 5 years in college to end up working as an ESL teacher? I can see why you are upset and picking fights

[northway]

[cle2kor]