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The Split-Shift Factor
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One of the most frequent questions put to us by teachers interested in working in Korea is ?Will I have split shifts?? First, to understand the way any working day operates in Korea you need to fully understand how a school operates and the ages and grades of the students enrolled at the school and how a suitable timetable will be made by the director to best meet the students needs. In general, the average school caters for the kindergarten to high school levels only and any adult students will attend specific adult schools in major centers. Adult academies make up only about 5-10% of jobs available. Many schools will have an assortment of students as listed below.
It is no use demanding in your contract that you will not work split shifts! To do this you are showing an inflexible attitude and complete lack of understanding for the school's program. I feel that most of the horror stories of split shifts are hanging around from previous years when more adult academies existed and the ?corner store? local private school stayed open from 6am-10pm to cater for students from every range listed above. In the last few years many Kindertgarten schools have opened up, franchises such as BCM JCE and Wonderland etc. Older schools such as ECC have been running multi-level classes for years. Some may have adults as well as kindergarten children and some like Pagoda and Direct English have only university classes often commencing at 7am in the morning as well as in the evening. It will be impossible for any director to draw up a timetable for an individual teacher that suits exactly the what teacher wants. For example, students enrol for either Monday, Wednesday and Friday classes or Tuesday and Thursday classes or maybe just one day a week. Sometimes the Tuesday/Thursday classes will have less students so you might not have any classes on a Tuesday afternoon or perhaps one class at 4pm. If you taught Kindergarten children from 9am-1pm then you will have a break between 1-4pm. On a Wednesday you might have classes from 9am-12am, 1pm-2pm and then 3.30-7.30pm. Both of these are normal days for 90% of schools. It is extremely rare that you get a straight block of classes such as from 1-7pm. Be warned if you are working at an adult academy you might have classes 7-9am 1-3pm and then again 8-10pm. This can get hard on the stress levels and restrict a lot of your day Some academies such as Pagoda have kindly provided sleeping areas and showers for you ! You need to assess what you are actually looking for. In a nutshell, split shifts are a big part of your working day, which will be approx 6 hours of class time.
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