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From Jenice Kim, HR assistant at Association of School Teachers (AST) in Korea.

"Currently, we are working hand in hand with several local Korean government agencies by assisting with recruiting qualified teachers from the United States. Especially, Education department of the Busan metropolitan city government (the second largest city in S. Korea) recruits 90 American instructors/graduates as English teachers for the public schools. Since 2007, the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education in South Korea has been focused on cultivating global talent for education. As an effort from our office, all 560 schools which are involved in Busan Metropolitan City from elementary schools to high schools have hired over 600 English speaking teachers from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. There are teaching positions available for public schools in Busan Metropolitan city in South Korea for the following fall semester (Contract: August 2012 – July 2013). The application deadline would be March 20, 2012. If you are interested in applying for the English speaking teacher position in South Korea, please send us your resume along with the application form (attached file) to hr.resume@astkorea.org

---  The main goal of the teachers chosen for this program will be to assist and teach native Korean teachers and students (1st-12th grade) conversational English. This goal is achieved by American teachers not only teaching English speaking classes, but also their own subjects such as Math, P.E., Music, Science, or the other subjects through the usage of English. Teachers will be required to work 8 hours per day, 5 days a week (40 hours per week) excluding Korean Holidays. Your commitment with AST and Busan Metropolitan City will be for a full year (52 weeks).  1. Native speaker of English 2. Academic: Applicants should be met at least one of the following qualifications (1) Bachelor’s degree – major in English, Education, or Communication. (2) Master’s degree in any fields. (3) TESOL (+100 hours). (4) Teaching certificate.  American teachers will be contracted with each of the public schools, and the salaries will be paid by the schools through Korean currency ‘won’ (KRW.) Salary: KRW 34,150,000 (Appx. $30,491 USD) per year. Benefits Include (provide for free): 1) Airfare (round trip). 2) Housing (fully furnished including TV set). 3) Compulsory Medical Insurance. All income tax will be refunded by both Korea and the United States. (Individual Tax, Sec. 911) Please contact us if you have any questions. [|http://www.astkorea.org] [] - page for Busan program candidates Resume with questions: hr.resume@astkorea.org
 * Applicants does not need to Speak Korean. Local Korean teachers are readily available for any translation needs.
 * Currency rate (Feb. 13 2012): KRW 1,120: $1 (U.S. dollar)
 * Salary would be adjusted by $180~$360 per month depending on teaching certificate, and teaching experience.
 * Living cost would be 20%-35% cheaper than United States, and also most of the English teachers would not buy or rent car because of convenient transportation system

This is a way to connect History lessons to Facebook! However It would definitely need some words changed! It's an interesting way to look at historical interactions. []

Found these news articles in my hometown newspaper over Thanksgiving Break

[|Teachers' Facebook Pages] This is from a few months ago and the next one is a follow-up from other districts' policies [|Personal Drinking on Facebook as a Teacher]

__**//Recent stuff on education in these trying times (11/22 - things to think about in addition to gratitude and thankfulness)//**__

"What Have We Been Teaching" by educator & MSU instructor Ira Socol

"Teaching Good Sex" from NYT

A memoir/essay about home schooling (from NYT) - think about what it says (or doesn't say) about schooling in the US today

Were you once a natural science major?

Could these same arguments be made about education schools?

Who needs cash-for-gold when you can get cash-for-grades?!

A former MSU instructor/high school teacher/now professor in Detroit offers us these stern words for all of us in 407/408

Tomorrow's Educators for the Advancement of Multiculturalism is pompiled of MSU students going into education that advocate cultural awareness and diversity. Our monthly meetings focus on a new topic each month and at these meetings we have in-depth discussions and partake in topic-related activitites. TEAM also holds social events for our members, service events for the community, and fundraising events for the benefit of students K-12. We have no dues or point system so joining is as easy as sending an email or coming to a meeting. Please email: teammail@msu.edu with all of your questions. Also, see [|TEAM's Facebook Page]

**__Opportunity to volunteer with Project LEAD__**
Project LEAD will run in four school buildings during the 2011-2012 school year (three in ELPS and one in LPS): Whitehills Elementary, MacDonald Middle School, East Lansing High School, and Pattengill Middle School. Project LEAD is designed to use leadership clubs as a vehicle for empowering middle and high school students to assume roles as leaders in their schools and communities through a year-long leadership training focused on diversity, inequity, civic engagement, and social justice. Through this project, students in grades 5-12 in urban and suburban schools (1) deepen their awareness and understanding of difference and diversity; (2) develop critical skills for examining and remedying social inequality in their schools and communities; (3) demonstrate civic engagement through their implementation of two social action projects that address identified issues related to diversity and inequity in their school and community. Through participation in leadership clubs that are facilitated by MSU undergraduate students, middle and high school students develop a consciousness and disposition to “name their world,” reframe it, and change it (Freire, 1993) as well as positively affect the lives of their peers and community members by their service through leadership. This project serves as one type of solution to promoting diversity and social justice among adolescents and presents an intervention for academic underperformance in both school districts.

**Contact MARK HELMSING (helmsing@msu.edu), instrutor for Section 005, if you are interested in volunteering with this exciting new project.**

*Substitute Teaching Info*
http://www.subpass.com/go

News, Opinions, & Commentary
11/7 - An article saying that telling students they are smart might actually inhibit their learning [|Can Everyone Be Smart at Everything?]

10/17 - An article that discusses flipping how classtime is used in a classroom. The teacher has the students working on homework during class and having them do the lectures at home by watching recordings. 'Flipped' Classrooms

9/27 - Students at Edgewood Primary School (near Bloomington, IN) use stabilizing balls instead of chairs. According to a news article: "The balls help the students improve their posture and blood flow, strengthen their core muscles and promote “active” sitting that can help enhance attention and concentration, said Leichter, who has her own bright yellow stability ball. “I personally like it because it really does make you sit with proper posture,” she said. “And with the students, I like the fact it does allow for ‘active sitting,’ meaning the kids can bounce or rock. Plus, it’s easier to get into groups.”

9/21 Legislation Affecting Teachers in Michigan!!! http://www.mea.org/house-passes-hb-4929

9/19 Teacher Evaluations - a thought provoking piece http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20110919/WDH0101/109190393/Grading-Our-Teachers-Job-evaluation-reform-gains-traction

9/12 "Letter to the Editor" in //The State News// about future teachers http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2011/09/future_teachers_should_reconsider

"Thank a Teacher Campaign" http://thanksforteaching.us/ media type="custom" key="10518134" width="140" height="140"

How to keep your students awake in class: [|http://blog.simplek12.com/education/top-10-ways-to-wake-up-students/]

Events and Happenings
[|Michigan Council of Social Studies Conference] November 4-6 Lansing, MI

[|National Council of Social Studies Conference] December 2-4 Washington, DC

MTTC Schedule: http://www.mttc.nesinc.com/MI16_testdates.asp

Job Opportunities
See the attached for a position this year with Scoutreach - one of our students worked with them last year and had an amazing time while learning a lot about teaching.
 * [[file:Scoutreach Fall '11]]