keen competition!
Park (28) who graduated from the graduate school of education in 2007 is worrying about the notice of 2010 Seoul Secondary school teacher appointment exam. She who wants to be a Math teacher thinks this exam is last opportunity because competitive rate is getting higher from year to year and even the way of teacher appointment changes.
Park who has gone to an academy for a year in Noryangjin after failing to pass the exam said with a sigh that it's getting harder to be a teacher.
Teacher appointment exam is getting harder to pass. New teacher appointment becomes smaller because the number of applicants exceeds the limit but the number of students lessens. To make matters worse, applicants are ready to cry because the way of teacher appointment changes again next year.On August 18, Academies related to the exam gather together around Noryangjin. Academy's notices like "This is last time","A shortcut to pass the exam" are likely to find. A class that arranges teaching presentation is already made. Kim (23, Female) who is a student at college of education, K University in Seoul said that Test of being teacher often changes so it's difficult to adapt myself.
It is also a burden for applicants to intensify teaching presentation next year. An existing 3 stage of Test of being teacher that comes into effect last year changes again before the system is fixed. The person concerned said that it's excessive burden for applicants to require practical experience like teaching ability.
Competitive rate of a secondary school teacher appointment exam in Seoul was only 3.7:1 in 2002 but the rate had sharply raised 7.1:1 in 2003, 10.7:1 in 2004, 15.3:1 in 2005. In addition the rate recorded 26.1:1 last year. A national elementary school teacher employment that guaranteed appointment as a teacher become higher from 0.91:1 in 2003 to 1.89:1 in 2009.
A person related to Ministry of Education, Science and Technology(교육과학기술부=교과부) said that recently the number of teachers is fixed and competitive rate become higher. He also said we are considering various plan like the merger and abolition of national educational university and a personnel reduction of a college of education to lower competitive rate.
I find it interesting that one person was reported saying, "The person concerned said that it's excessive burden for applicants to require practical experience like teaching ability." Seriously? We shouldn't expect teachers to be able to demonstrate teaching ability!? That person is living is a strange fantasy world.
ReplyDeleteI agree, though, that there are too many applicants for the positions available. However, I'm torn. Many applicants should mean that students are getting the best and, I think, that the new test format gets us closer to that. On the other hand, it's a shame that so many students are preparing for a career that is exceedingly out of their grasp.
What do you think?
Dan
yes it's true. That person maybe think teaching ability is very important to applicants.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the former. Students do the best to pass the exam because more students will take the exam.