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Offline jmhawkins88

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Hello from Seogwipo!
« on: July 08, 2012, 09:54:08 PM »
Hi, I'm a first time teacher that's been living in Seogwipo for a little over three weeks now. I'm teaching at an elementary hagwon and I've been a bit overwhelmed by receiving no guidance on how/what to teach. I hear that's pretty common for Korea :) Hoping to poke around the waygook.org community for ideas!

Cheers!
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Offline AC_in_Korea

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Re: Hello from Seogwipo!
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2012, 10:43:55 PM »
Welcome!

It is fairly common to be expected to jump right into teaching, and be good at it, without any training.  :)  Waygook.ORG has thousands of amazing resources and tools that you can adapt for any lesson.

All the best to you during your time here in Korea!
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Re: Hello from Seogwipo!
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2012, 01:47:13 AM »
Quote from: jmhawkins88 on July 08, 2012, 09:54:08 PM
Hi, I'm a first time teacher that's been living in Seogwipo for a little over three weeks now. I'm teaching at an elementary hagwon and I've been a bit overwhelmed by receiving no guidance on how/what to teach. I hear that's pretty common for Korea :) Hoping to poke around the waygook.org community for ideas!

Cheers!

I also live on Jeju-do (in Jeju-si)
Don't worry about how/what to teach.  You are a foreign teacher who teaches English in English.  That's good enough.
(hence why nobody has bothered to train/guide you----it's not necessary)
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Offline madison79

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Re: Hello from Seogwipo!
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2012, 05:22:23 AM »
Totally disagree that you shouldn't need training.  That's just your boss being lazy. 
I'm living in Jeju city and if you want I can send you my hard drive of all my teaching plans from the last 5 years.  It's about 2 gig's of stuff with games, lesson plans to anything else related to teaching.  I've been teaching elementary position so it should help you out.
Also, pay the 15 dollars for barryfunenglish.com its so worth it.
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