Teaching at an English Academy in Korea is pretty easy. I have a weekly schedule for each of my five classes that I update every week. Every minute is scheduled. I teach new spelling words, reading, writing, grammar, handwriting, math and science. Each subject is allocated about 10-30 minutes. I play a lot of games too. There're reading games and math games but usually I play a lot of Hangman and I-Spy.
I teach 5 different levels of students. The smallest kids I teach, High Beginner, are around 6 or 7 years old. (I am always vaguely unsure about their ages because "Korean Age" is one or two years more than "Western Age.") They're pretty cute but also have ridiculous amounts of energy. On average I spend half the time telling them to "sit down!" "be quiet!" "sit down!" "get your books!"... I find HB makes me appreciate the easier higher levels.
I also have one terrible level. They were actually my favorite class when I took over in March. However, about 2-3 months ago the class as a whole hit puberty and every since has been full of little monsters. They can be cute, they have a tendency to sing the song of the week together. But I have also run my voice ragged trying to control them.
At the end of the day I like my job very much and I would highly recommend a year in Korea to anyone looking for a bit of an adventure.
The view from my classroom window.
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