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[crazylemongirl]

I don't know how widespread this is but gyeonggi do office in my area is doing an 'audit' of foreign teachers. I've been asked to hand over all my paperwork ie. lesson plans, handouts etc. since I was employed at my school which I have to find by tomorrow.

Also they are sending out handouts and questionaires to the the principal, vice prinicpal, and korean teachers in addition they also be sending out sheets to one class in each of the grades I teach. I will also be inspected by some powers that be within sometime within the next 6 days.

I'm not part of the GEPIK programme, but I do know some middle school teachers in the area that are going through the same thing.

[Toby]

Thus showing it is better to try and get yourself a private mainstream school....

[just because]

[Toby]

My school is a private middle and high school.

No plans. No testing. No assessment. No homework.

Some inspectors did visit, but only for a morning and to look at the scool, not me.

Just go in and teach wat you want and how you want, within reason of course.

[Derrek]

[canukteacher]

Thanks for the info. I don't care if the President himself visits. I've given my notice, and they can go and rotate somewhere for all I care

Seriously, I have kept all that crapola up to date. Knowing how anal retentive these people are, I think it is the smart thing to do. They don't read anything. As I found out from my co-teacher (Ms. Hitler) they count the lesson plans and match them to the pay records. They want to know that they have not paid you for anything you did not work over and above the 22 contact hours (fair enough). They can assess me any way they like. My principal has observed my teaching on a number of occassions, and has always been complimentary. My winter camp was a hit with the kids and their parents. Even though I am leaving, I still intend to deliver a great summer camp. I feel sorry for these kids having to spend even part of their vacations in school. Hopefully, they will take home some pleasant memories of summer camp.

CT

[thorin]

As if they can read English. Just print out Dave's threads complaining about GEPIK, put them in file folders and you're good to go!

[Gollum]

This is where a text scanner of the book's teachers manual would come in handy, if needed. ha

[PolyChronic Time Girl]

Yep, I worked in Anyang last year (gyeonngi) and had to put up with booklets and booklets of lesson plans that had to be signed and sent to the government office. Koreans only care about quantity, not quality. I could have written "your mom s*cks donkey balls" and they wouldn't have noticed. To them, lots of paperwork=more professional image. It doesn't matter what the paperwork says.

[JacktheCat]

Other than the lesson plan log books for general and extra classes that I was handed at the beginning of the semester, and that the VP will ask for every now and then, I haven't been asked to fill out any extra paperwork by my school or Gyeonggido.

What Gyeonggido has been sending around my neck of the woods are some pretty nasty memos threatening to cut off school funds if any of the schools in my area give their pet foreigners more than two weeks of vacation this summer.

[animalbirdfish]

[Pyongshin Sangja]

[livinginkorea]

[crazylemongirl]

Well I was at school until after 8 last night doing this. And only got through this years lessons. It didn't help that there was a power cut in the school for an hour after the air con blew a whole bunch of fuses.

Also my computer is a 486 that's on its last legs so it kept crashing and some of the files have corrupted so its going to be incomplete

[JacktheCat]