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Kindergarten in Korea

Hey I was wondering whether any of you have any info or ideas for teaching kindergarten students, I am goign to South Korea in late March and wondered if you had any general or specific advice you could give me. Also Ive just spent the last 15 minutes trying to upload a picture on my profile and getting frustrated, is there a file size limit. I would love to hear about your experiences and where your off to or workng now, I am new to this TEFL website and TEFL teaching so would appreciate any advice.

Ben Montgomery.

TEFL teaching in KOREA

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yer the rest of the course ia a bit of a doddle after the grammar. No i havent been to south korea, cant wait!! have you?? are u excited and looking forward to it??

i noticed you did a law degree, i did politics and did a module on human rights, it rocked.

There is so much to do! I'm having trouble getting all the paper work together for the application. I have the certificates scanned and my passport scanned, just need to get my pass port photo taken, i might try to do that at some point today.

I'm finding the grammar course really nice, I was worried the other parts of it would be more difficult.

I work a full time job and I have a bar job at the weekends so finding the time is a bit of a nightmare, but when work is quiet I do it at my desk.

Have you been to South Korea before?

ahh thats much appreciated dean,

I am formulating plans now and photocopying some good exercises. how long have you been teaching in Hong Kong, whats the weather and food like??

3 to 4, in Hong Kong we would call that K1. Probably do one letter of the alphabet every week, same one for the whole week. Upper Case, Lower case, it's name and phonetic sound. Go through number, probably wouldn't go above 10 (maybe to 15) by the end of that year. For each letter of the alphabet I would teach maybe 3 words which start with that letter. Each few weeks I would also revise the last 3 or 4 weeks work also.

I would also throw in some concepts, opposites like on/off, fat/thin, 'heavy/light'. This concepts time you could use as a 'theme' time (or the themes could be another element, depending on their ability). A theme could be 'transport' (then teach many forms of transport, car, bus, bike, etc), or fruit, food, play equipment - whatever. I would write the syllabus for the whole semester before starting - the syllabus would just be some Word document with a grid, one line for one week with various columns saying which number, letter, theme, etc you're teaching. Oh yeah, you're right about colors and shapes.

Just my experience anyway. Dig up as many songs as you can find for the things you're teaching. For example, '1 little, 2, little 3 little fingers' (some say little indians, but I think outside the USA it's not relevant). My experience is only in Hong Kong, I've done some private tutoring in Shenzhen in the mainland as well.