I’ve worked at Foreign Language High Schools, Private Tutoring, and Academies (Cram schools, Hakwons). Here are a couple of lessons I’ve learned, so you don’t have to make the same mistakes.
Be strict with Korean Students – This means allow them give you respect as a “teacher.” I liked students calling me Paul instead of Mr. [...]
Star Craft anyone? A PC Bang is an internet café that a lot of Korean students use today. You’ll find them all over Seoul and all of Korea for that matter. If you ever see the letters “P” and “C” you can bet your Kimchi that its a PC Bang. You can go there to [...]
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Need your news fix in English on stuff about Korea?
Here’s what I read and/or in my RSS Reader:
Korea Herald – http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/ – Hands down one of the best newspapers in Korea on Korea.
Korea Times – http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/index.asp – Also another good newspaper in Korea on Korea
Ohmynews – http://english.ohmynews.com/ -Citizen journalism
Republic of Korea’s Official Website – [...]
Korean students are required to learn English for one main reason: to be prepared for the International environment. By that I mean the student should be able to communicate with another person in English. In order to fulfill such goal, nothing is more important than being able to think and process in English.
For a student [...]
One way to become an innovative teacher is to leverage the knowledge and tools that others have built at topeducationdegrees dot com has provided a list of ten programs.
I have used and continue to use the following:
Edublogs – A community of educators sharing information and creating websites
Google Docs – Don’t have MS Office installed? This [...]
