Teaching Math, ESL and having fun!

As some of you may already know (and if you don't, you will as of now), I am in the midst of geting my teaching qualifications. Classes at university have started and the assignments and homework have begun to flood in. These were of course things that I expected. BUT...something has happened that I never could have imagined in my wildest dreams. I LIKE MATH! A self-confessed "mathphobe" I has spent the greater part of my life ducking behind trees and hiding under shrubs in order to avoid anything mathematical! This makes sense, I was the product of a not-so-well-oiled system of education that was a(when it came to math)one-way, black and white, right and wrong sort of a show. Simply put, it made math scary for a lot of people; myself included.

Well, things have changed and if I could do primary school all over agin, I'd wanna be here in Ontario...now. The way things are done these days are sooooo cool. Kids get to be creative, explore, work together and solve problems as a team. They don't have to live in the "black and white" world of math their parents did. I could have never imagined myself saying this in the past, but "Math is Cool!"

So, on to other things. On a more serious (though the coolness of primary math is not to be taken lightly)note. As I've been thinking a lot about my future in the education profession, I have as well been reflecting on the past 5 years of my life as an ESL instructor in South Korea. I learned a lot by living in Korea for so long. Not only did I learn methodologies and tactics of teaching and managing a classroom, but I learned a lot about the private education industry in Korea...good and bad. There are many wonderful aspects to moving abroad and teaching ESL, but there are some pitfalls as well. I decided to take some of my knowledge and put it online in the form of videos. I'm starting with some general information and advice, but if the demand arises, I'll continue to make more videos on more specific topics of teaching in Korea.

Here's my first one.


If you're interested in seeing more of my videos (they tend to be about the sillier side of life), you can take a peek at my youtube site.

www.youtube.com/busankevin