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postfundie
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 Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:11 pm Post subject: anybody with experience taking/teaching Advanced Placement? |
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| I'm dying to teach US or European History (I'd love to be one of the selected few to actually work in my field of study) somewhere and there are a couple places which offer classes. Just wondering if anybody has experience with this stuff... |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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At what level? Those subjects are hardly taught in the Korean public school system. You're only hope would be an international school.
BTW, I'd love to teach those things, too, but for now will put up with teaching overworked teenagers the difference between L and R. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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| As I recall from the Metropolitician's blog (he used to teach AP US History) it's now illegal for non-Koreans to teach any subject other than English at the non-university level. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:07 am Post subject: Re: anybody with experience taking/teachear Advanced Placeme |
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| postfundie wrote: |
| I'm dying to teach US or European History (I'd love to be one of the selected few to actually work in my field of study) somewhere and there are a couple places which offer classes. Just wondering if anybody has experience with this stuff... |
Do you not have experience taking the APs yourself? Are you not from the US? |
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Satin
Joined: 26 Oct 2006
Location: Texas
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:27 am Post subject: Your Memory? |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
| As I recall from the Metropolitician's blog (he used to teach AP US History) it's now illegal for non-Koreans to teach any subject other than English at the non-university level. |
Either your memory or the blog is wrong. 
Advanced teacher placement? By this, do you mean certification to teach in specific grades and subjects? If so, and you are a U.S. citizen, each state has its own requirements. Generally though, you apply to take the test. Once you pass, you are issued a license(?) for that area. Grade level depends on your educational qualifications. Some states issue a certificate for Life; others, for a specific number of years.
A google search for the state you want to be certified in will give you the basic information you need. (In Texas, it's the State Board for Teacher Certification -- this may help your search parameters.) |
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postfundie
Joined: 28 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 5:52 am Post subject: |
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I m red white and blue all the way through.... with a real History degree from Harvard (just kidding actually from Illinois state university)
I 'm pretty sure that its possible to teach AP history test prep here in Bibimbop land..Do you guys look at the job postings today? |
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Paji eh Wong
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 6:05 am Post subject: Re: anybody with experience taking/teaching Advanced Placeme |
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| postfundie wrote: |
| I'm dying to teach US or European History (I'd love to be one of the selected few to actually work in my field of study) somewhere and there are a couple places which offer classes. Just wondering if anybody has experience with this stuff... |
I took AP English lit and comp exam at an International school. That was about 10 years ago. The teacher was the best I'd ever had. APs or IBs, everyone in the class cleaned up when it came to exam time. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: Your Memory? |
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| Satin wrote: |
| Hater Depot wrote: |
| As I recall from the Metropolitician's blog (he used to teach AP US History) it's now illegal for non-Koreans to teach any subject other than English at the non-university level. |
Either your memory or the blog is wrong. |
Ah, you're right. I misremembered, but probably because he seems to believe that will be the practical effect of this decision:
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Well, thanks in large part to your article, Yeong Kyeong, the Ministry passed a new regulation specifically prohibiting the use of non-government approved textbooks during normal daytime classes, so my class was relegated to the night extra classes, where it will probably dwindle and then die a slow and unspectacular death. The conditions of my job changed such that I couldn't teach it anymore � not with the many added difficulties and limitations of teaching an "extra" class without grading power, taught in the evening, and with less hours per week, taught only during part of each semester. What teacher wants to be set up to fail?
I was really looking forward to improving a lot of things this year, starting fresh with a new batch of kids, forearmed with all the things not to do, as well as filled with ideas of new things that would probably work better.
Well, Lee Yeong Kyeong, I want you to know that the direct result of your spectacular reporting � and others like it � has been the complete elimination of good, qualified teachers (who are very unlikely to be the unqualified, rapist bail-jumpers that the Korean media wants to portray) from the standard daytime curriculum. I, as one of the most dedicated, experienced, and highly-qualified non-teachers of English in this country, can never again teach anything but English conversation in a Korean school. |
http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/2006/08/attack_of_the_c.html |
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