My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: A Fabulous Writing Textbook

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: A Fabulous Writing Textbook: Hello readers, sorry I've been MIA recently.  No excuses really, but just busy and haven't had a lot of inspiration.  I've been teaching at ...

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Interesting Results from my Presentation Class

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Interesting Results from my Presentation Class: This semester, I taught a presentation class for the first time, and actually it was only my second time teaching a content course (the firs...

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Teaching with few resources

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Teaching with few resources: A helpful post from a friend of mine.  Check out Wandergeek's "Teaching English with Minimal Resources."

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Interesting Developments

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Interesting Developments: With all the recent cuts of foreign teachers in Korean public schools, I'll have to see this to believe it.  All schools to Have Native Engl...

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Stephen Krashen in Busan

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Stephen Krashen in Busan: A couple nights ago, Stephen Krashen came to Busan.  That's pretty big news!  He is one of the foremost people in the  world of Language Acq...

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Comprehensible Input

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Comprehensible Input: Stephen Krashen thinks that comprehensible input is the most important factor in learning a language.  Our brains have an LAD (language acqu...

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Celta Teaching Practice #2

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Celta Teaching Practice #2: Teaching practice #2 (out of 8) is done!   And another above standard :)  I hope the trend continues.  Anyway, I had to do a reading lesson ...

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: My first Celta Lesson

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: My first Celta Lesson: So the first teaching practice out of the 8 is done and I got an "Above Standard."  I had to do a grammar lesson on the Simple Past, which i...

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Lesson Planning for my first Celta Teaching Practi...

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Lesson Planning for my first Celta Teaching Practi...: There has been lots of stuff that I've found not so helpful on the Celta Course, but one thing I've liked is the focus on how to plan a less...

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Pearson Longman Internet Homework

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Pearson Longman Internet Homework: My uni is big on "blended learning," meaning that the admin expect us to allocate at least 20% of our final grades to Internet Homework that...

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Part-time Celta in Seoul

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Part-time Celta in Seoul: I'm currently commuting to Seoul 3 times a week, studying at the British Council in Seoul for the Celta Course .  It involves getting up out...

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Lesson Planning...the Celta Way

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Lesson Planning...the Celta Way: For the Celta Course, there are these intense lesson plans that you have to do for each of your teaching sessions.  For first-time teachers,...

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Reader Question...Maximum Time Limit at Korean Uni...

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: Reader Question...Maximum Time Limit at Korean Uni...: This question from Peter: "I recently was offered and accepted a full-time English Professor positon at ***** University in Seoul. Howev...

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: 3 Cheers for Korea!

My Life! Teaching in a Korean University: 3 Cheers for Korea!: So over on ESL Cafe , there is a thread on the Korea Forums from a Canadian guy who is leaving Korea after 7 years. He basically craps all ...