Something Different: The Afterschool English Program

What’s the Afterschool English Program?

The Afterschool English Program is an alternative program for the Korean Government. It's mandate is to improve the English speaking abilities of elementary school students in public schools. The Afterschool English Program changes a small tuition fee, and is an alternative to attending a private language institute.

Primary School Education is mandatory in Korea, and is funded by the Korean Government. However, the Afterschool English Program is operated with a small tuition fee for those who wish to participate in extra English classes.

※ As you can see, the Afterschool English Program = public school’s pros (Stability)+private school’s pros (small class, set curriculum)!

Important: “The Afterschool English Program” in Korea. Operates in two yaws.

One, way is that the schoool operates the program by itself. The second way, is that the school operates the program through a non-profit organization that specializes in education.

1. School runs the Program itself. The native teacher is responsible for developing a curriculum, programs, dealing with parents and doing all administration work. These conditions make it difficult for the teacher to maintain a good working environment because the teacher bears the responsibility for everything without outside help.
2. The Program is run by a non-profit organiaztion. This way of running the Program is much easier for the native teacher because all programs, curriculum and teacher's manuals are provided. There is staff that supports the teacher's work : this staff normally does all the non-teaching work (dealing with parents, administration). The staff is also available to help the native teacher adjust to life in Korea : this way of running the program creates a better working environment for the native teacher.

However, the most important fact you have to have in mind is that you get to choose an organization you can trust. And that’s why we are here, the “KAPEE”, the Korean Association of Primary English Education.

What is KAPEE?

<KAPEE>

KAPEE stands for The Korean Association of Primary English Education, and is a non-profit organization. KAPEE was founded in April 1995 bt of English professors from National Universities of Education in Korea. This was when the Ministry of Education officially announced that English was to become one of the major subjects for Primary Education in Korea.

The goals of KAPEE are to share English Education Theories and field information with each other in order to promote English Education within primary schools in Korea. They do this by hosting conferences and seminars and by publishing academic journals and by doing teachers training. In their quest to promote English, KAPEE is qursuing many activities and and Afterschool English Program is their main focus.

<Textbook>

KAPEE has its own English Program entitled English star. The English Star Program teaches children a mare natural approach to learning English : it imitates the way that a native English speaker learns the language.

Job description

- The job
You will be teaching conversational English to Elementary School Students with the English Star Text Book. You will be a successful teacher if you like to teach children, are good at explaining concepts and have a lot of patience.
Working hours will be from 11Am~6PM. You will have a Korean co-teacher and are free to discuss curriculum, and teaching methods.
- Locations
Major cities- Seoul, Gyeonggi province, Incheon, Daejeon and so on.

- Starting date
Sep 10th.

- Contract period
One year.

- Airfare
Teachers will get airfare reimbursed by the employer within a month.

- Salary range
2.1M KRW~2.3M KRW. Salary range is already set and, depends on the teacher’s qualifications.

- Overtime
Overtime pay is 23,000KRW per hour. However, when teachers are required to do paper work instead of teaching, overtime pay will be 6,000KRW per hour.

- Rural allowance
If teachers are working in the countryside, teachers will be provided a rural allowance of 100,000KRW~200,000KRW month.

- Severance pay
Teachers will be provided an extra 30 days average wage as severance pay after completing a one year contract.

- Dress code
Male teachers must wear a white shirt and tie, and long pants.
(2 long sleeves, 2 short sleeves, and 3 ties will be provided from the employer.)
Female teachers must wear a blouse and have pants or skirt that covers the knees.(2 short sleeves and 2 long blouses will be provided from the employers.)

- Holidays
Teachers will have 10 paid holidays as well as all Korean National Holidays and weekends.

- Sick leave
Teachers will have 3 days sick leave.

- Housing
Single housing will be provided. All efforts will be made to get housing within walking distance of the school.

- Medical insurance and Pension plan
Teachers will pay 50% of medical insurance and 50% of the pension plan. with The pension plan be refunded at the end of the contract. (only for Canadians and Americans.)