I have another question here, and anyone who can answer from experience would be appreciated if they could give me a little information. Can you please describe, in whatever detail you like, what the standard kinds of teaching methods are in a standard Korean classroom? I’m not especially interested in a language classroom; history, civics, art classes, and other subjects are just as important to me. Last night I went out to dinner with the English teachers from the high school where I am teaching a few hours a week, a sideline approved by my current employer. The English staff …

Today I saw a presentation by Steve Gershon, who is the author of the English Upgrade series which my University uses in its conversational English classrooms. After the presentation, I was asking a coworker about how much of the ideas Gershon presented would be successful in the classes we teach here. Judging by the fact his University even offers post-graduate courses, I would assume that the student body is perhaps a little more selectively accepted than at the place I’m teaching. That, of course, can make all the difference in the world. But the question of pedagogy, and my role …

I didn’t want to use my own resume as an example when I taught resume-writing in my writing class, so I modified it and used a made-up character, Isaac Wolgren. What’s included in this file are two examples of a resume: one is experience-based, and one is skills-based. I’m assuming most of my students have no work experience and will have to use the latter form. And yeah, a dragon-slayer’s resume is a silly idea, but it was the first thing that popped into my sickly mind. I’ve had dragonslayers on the mind lately, so what can I do? When …