On a wet Wednesday evening in Seoul, six government employees gather at the office to prepare for a late-night patrol. The mission is as simple as it is counterintuitive: to find children who are studying after 10 p.m. And stop them.
In South Korea, it has come to this. To reduce the country's addiction to private, after-hours tutoring academies (called hagwons), the authorities have begun enforcing a curfew — even paying citizens bounties to turn in violators.
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Montag, 26. September 2011
Teachers, native English speakers should team up
I AM a University of Cambridge certified English teacher from Canada who has been volunteering at both my sons' local schools since we moved to Singapore in 2009.
The kindergarten and primary school pupils are adorable even though I can rarely understand what they are saying.
With large numbers of pupils in each class, I like the idea of employing assistant teachers to help with the workload, and it would be excellent if the Education Ministry would consider what Japan has been doing for the last 24 years.
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The kindergarten and primary school pupils are adorable even though I can rarely understand what they are saying.
With large numbers of pupils in each class, I like the idea of employing assistant teachers to help with the workload, and it would be excellent if the Education Ministry would consider what Japan has been doing for the last 24 years.
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Trilingual stewardess turned teacher
North Bergen resident Elke Bachik is more than familiar with the art of language. Bachik grew up in Germany speaking both German and French. Drawing upon her experiences with learning two languages from her mother, she has since made a living for herself based on an immersion method of teaching language to people of varied cultures.
Bachik now volunteers her time teaching English as a Second Language to native Spanish-speaking students within the North Bergen Public Library three nights a week. Currently in her second year as instructor, Bachik has provided a valuable service to North Bergen, which according to a 2010 census has a Hispanic population of 41,569, or roughly 68 percent.
Bachik now volunteers her time teaching English as a Second Language to native Spanish-speaking students within the North Bergen Public Library three nights a week. Currently in her second year as instructor, Bachik has provided a valuable service to North Bergen, which according to a 2010 census has a Hispanic population of 41,569, or roughly 68 percent.
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