On July 20 2009 10:21 MuffiN wrote:
Westerners laugh at similar advertisements like these when Asian countries have prestigious tutoring institutes and laugh at the fact that they want teachers with 700+ SAT and ivy league school schooling. This is in fact is not asking for alot, these are people who have an intense dedication for academics and want people who have displayed similar results, people who have achieved marks and can influence likewise to learning students so that they may also have positive ramifications.
When i visit Korea and visit their hakwons, most of their teachers are over the top people who are probably the smartest teachers i have ever met and probably a hundred times smarter than my teachers here in Vancouver.
They do not want some Joe who barely slipped by and got a university degree they want people who are extremely smart, dedicated and have a vast background of education.
These expecattions which may seem silly to you are actually not silly at all. If you wanted to go to university of Seoul would u not want a teacher who got perfect in his/her entrance exam and was smart and dedicated to teach you?
People who are qualified to teach and also happened to do extremely well on various assessments are indeed more desirable, but I dare say that many, if not most of the people who do extremely well on these assessments are inferior instructors of that material in general.
EPT
