I have a good job!

             I am very lucky to have a job at this school for a number of reasons.

First of all, we have fewer students per class, and we see our students more often than public school teachers. For example, one of the teachers I know who teaches English at a public school nearby has 40 students in each class and she teaches about 10+ classes each week, so she has 400 different students each week and she sees them only once a week! The majority of the time we teach, it’s to 15 students at a time, and we teach approximately 50-60 different students per week; we see the same students at least 4 times a week! The number of students we have and the amount of time we have with them is much better than other teachers of English.

Secondly, we have a pretty sweet job because communication isn’t as huge a problem as for other English teachers. We have lots of support due to the large number (16 currently) of other English-speaking foreign teachers at our school. Also, many of the Korean staff members speak enough English for us to be able to communicate more than just basics.

Overall, our experience as foreign teachers teaching English is a lot better than English teachers at public schools or hogwans (private after-school for-profit “cram” schools).