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The Classrooms
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Don't expect any recreation or play areas for the children other than corridors, or some smaller entertainment rooms with perhaps a video player, games, musical instruments and books or indoor gymnastic equipment. You will often share a class with a bilingual Korean teacher who will follow the same planning as you, and teach the same class for 40 minutes. Sometimes the classes are taken back-to-back, giving you an 80-minute session. Every classroom and teaching situation is very different, and it is very hard to give a general description. In many of the schools with kindergarten pupils as the main clientele, the teaching areas will be colourful and attractive, often with painted murals on the walls. Often there are theme-based teaching areas, so that English can be taught in context. For example, in one franchise, all the schools must have rooms that have their own distinct identity. You may be teaching one class in the 'Jurassic Park' theme room, complete with dinosaurs on the walls, while you sit around a table constructed to look like a large rock. If you move into the 'Kitchen Teaching Room' you will find it totally resembling a cooking and eating area. These same rooms will be used for teaching older pupils in the afternoon and evenings. The most general classroom situation would be a room approximately as large as a lounge, with a central table that allows up to 12 people to sit around it for a lesson, or a set of individual desks and chairs. Very few schools will expect you to have more than 12 pupils of any age in a class at a time. There is usually a white board available on a wall to write on. It is unlikely that you will find other furniture, such as a bookcase in the room. Often the room will have a glass viewing window area, so that people can observe what is happening through it, or just check to see who is in the room without disturbing you while you are teaching.
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