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This is a list of some some articles I think will be helpful to you and it's a good place to start.

Some of them are shared with my sister site, GRRRLTRAVELER.COM. Hope it answers your questions, but if not, shoot me an email or comment below and I'll be sure to respond. Enjoy!

So You Wanna Teach English in Korea?  

(you will be redirected to GRRRLTRAVELER.COM)

Getting a Job Teaching English in Korea:

• Do you really want to teach English in Korea? (Q & A)
• Do you really want to teach English in Korea? (Public vs Private schools)
• Surviving a university job interview in Korea

• How to Apostille Documents (Teaching English in Korea)

• 5 Things MTV taught me about teaching ESL (How I used my old career tools in the classroom)
• From MTV Producer to English Teacher in Korea ( My story)

My ESL Workplace and Lifestyle:
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• What is my class schedule and how many classes do I teach a week?
• My Schedule: A Day in a Life of an ESL Teacher
• Inside my Korean apartment
• Video: My First Day at a Korean Elementary School
• 10 shocking facts about Korean schools
• 10 (More) Shocking Facts about Korean Schools

What are English Camps: 

• What's English Summer camp?
• What's an English Musical Summer Camp?

Coping (coping when you feel like quitting):

• 5 Tips for New NETs in Korea
• 5 Reasons to Join your Expat Community when Living Abroad
• GRRRL Goes Whimpery in Her New Korean Location
• “Dynamic Korea” & the EFL Workplace
• Pass the Paper II: Coping with culture shock in Korea

• Confronting Korea with my Waygook card
• Getting a Korean phone (when you don’t know the language)

Why Pick Korea?

• 10 funny quirks you didn’t know about Koreans
• Is Korea a state-of-the-art country?
• Why did I choose to teach in Korea?
• Why I Love Teaching English to my Korean Students
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Free Resources:

Why you should get a Google Account
2 Free Software Programs to Use in place of MS Word


Lesson Plans and Games:


• Lessons from a Superhero Factory (teaching Actions)
• Lessons from the Monster Factory (teaching Feelings)
• Sharing your Culture (a lesson on Halloween)
• Giving your ESL class Thanksgiving (powerpoint)
• ESL Games: Spelling Board Games (video)

• Lesson Plans & Games: Teaching Jobs and Occupations (video)
• Games & Lesson Plans: Learning Descriptions (Detective Powerpoint)
•  How Much Is It? (The Price is Right  powerpoint)

• "Months of the Year" (video)

•  Seasons & Weather (3 great videos)•  Teaching "Days of the Week" (*awesome video)

•  When is your Birthday?•  Teaching Seasons & Weather with "Boys Over Flowers" (powerpoint)
• 5 Games to Kill Time

Lesson Plans & Ideas for Teaching Adults & Korean Teachers

• By the Way, You're Teaching Adult's English This Semester... (see the Textbook I taught from)
• 'Give Me More' Technique: Using it for Multi-level Adult Students (Part II)

• Ice Breaker Games for Adult Introductions (and my first Adult English class!)

• What I learned from teaching adult ESL

• Download my powerpoint presentation and modify it for yourself.

• 2 Fun Games for Teaching Adults

• Differences between Personal Information & Forms in U.S. vs Korea (wksht download)
• Teaching Adults: Poetry & the English Language

• Teaching English to Teachers (Lesson Plan: Classroom English)  (powerpoint download)

• Teaching Koreans: Common English Mistakes Made by Koreans (video)

• Teaching Teacher's English: Introductory Rules, Gossip & Cosmo Glamour  (worksheet downloads)• Course Syllabus: Introductions, Gossip & Glamour (wksht download)
• Reversed Frustrations in Learning a New Language ( slideshow)

Teaching Methods:

'Give me More!' Technique: Part 1

• 4 Tricks to Creating Questions your ESL students can answer
• 4 Tricks for Getting Slow ESL Learners to Start Learning Fast.
• Why Speed Games are great for slow students
• 'Give Me More' Technique: Using it for Multi-level Adult Students (Part II)
• Can you transform bad students into Good ones?

What are English Camps and Should I be afraid of them?


• What's English Summer camp?
• What's an English Musical Summer Camp?
• ESL Camp is upon us!
• ESL Summer Camp: From the Monster World
• ESL Summer Camp: from the Superhero Factory (Part II)
• ESL Summer Camp Updates from the Superhero Factory (Part I)
• Lessons from a Superhero Factory (teaching Actions)
• Lessons from the Monster Factory (teaching Feelings)
• 5 Games to Kill Time

Co-teaching 

• How do I work with co-teachers?
• Top 4 rants of NETs...
• Why doesn't my co-teacher listen to my ideas? 

• Co-teaching: A Ticking Time Bomb

Classroom Tips

#1: Raising Stakes
#2: Employ the Art of Listening
#3: Having Students Grow "Smart Brains"

#4: Communicate the Goal

#5: Encourage a Winning Classroom

#6: Using Supplementary materials & games

#7: Deliver Entertainment

#8: Encourage a Winning Classroom