Posted on 08/04/2013 10:38:30 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Kim Ki-hoon earns $4 million a year in South Korea, where he is known as a rock-star teacher—a combination of words not typically heard in the rest of the world. Mr. Kim has been teaching for over 20 years, all of them in the country's private, after-school tutoring academies, known as hagwons. Unlike most teachers across the globe, he is paid according to the demand for his skills—and he is in high demand.
Mr. Kim works about 60 hours a week teaching English, although he spends only three of those hours giving lectures. His classes are recorded on video, and the Internet has turned them into commodities, available for purchase online at the rate of $4 an hour. He spends most of his week responding to students' online requests for help, developing lesson plans and writing accompanying textbooks and workbooks (some 200 to date).
"The harder I work, the more I make," he says matter of factly. "I like that."
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Ho Li Fuk. If he makes $4 million a year, there is Sum Ting Wing.
A free market at work!
Do you use the Khan Academy for yourself or for your kids?
Myself...to stay sharp at math.
And the NEA screams in pain and panic.
I have a relative who is a public school teacher who was parroting the NEA complaint that highly paid athletes (Michael Jordan at the time) can make millions while public school teachers can "barely make it". I told her that Jordan could entertain millions at one time. When a single teacher can teach every student in a single grade and subject (let's say 8th grade American history) by video, that teacher could make top level athlete type money... but that means that every other teacher of that topic would be reduced to class proctor and tutor. Though NBA players make millions, how much would you pay to watch a college bench warmer (who might have been the 300th best basketball player in his year) who is now in a YMCA rec-league at age 25?
Oops, Sum Ting Wong.
ping for later
Students met at a set time, but it was an online meeting. The professor lectured, provided the slides that accompanied the lecture, answered student questions that were asked during the class.
The papers were submitted online, the exams were taken/graded online. I wonder how many students that professor was teaching for that class, and where they all were. Heck, I even wonder where he was.
I thought it was a good concept. The convenience of an online class (not having to travel to a brick-and-mortar) combined with the goodness of lectures and Q/A.
I appreciate that link. I’m going to utilize it regularly.
Thank you. I can see some real value there. Cool.
If kids used him when first starting math, the majority would be at college level by early high school.
And old farts who never liked math will find that they are actually math wizards who simply never had teachers who reached them.
Big difference between entertainment and education, no? I could not care less about the NBA, but education is the future.
I enjoy math. I’m not a high level math person, but I can work my way through most problems. I taught myself how to program computers using several languages. For me it was simply something to be figured out and I enjoyed it. I like to set up spread-sheets in Excel that convey a lot of information based on minimal input. I was always a gadget person, and in the 80s I enjoyed getting new watches and calculators and figuring them out without using the owner’s manual. People would hand me their watches that had owned them for over a year and couldn’t use certain functions, and I would explain it to them having never touched that brand of watch before. It was fun.
So thanks again here. Very nice...
I’d like to get exposure to higher levels of math. This is a great way to do it.
As a problem solver (you that is), let me welcome you to heaven (Khan Academy). In a very short time, you will be solving the mathematical problems of the universe...and loving every second of it.
+1. (Helped me through pre-engineering calculus)
I’m the sort of guy who would calculate the speed of the Earth traveling around the Sun, or the Moon traveling around the Earth in MPH.
I also enjoyed calculating how much blood the heart would pump in 24 hours, a day, month, year, or life span of varying lengths. Or perhaps I’d merely calculate the number of heart beats in an hour, day, month, year, variable life span.
Yes, I’m going to enjoy this.
Thanks for the welcome.
I’ve taken online classes and they suited me for my situation at the time (I was in Iraq). While I enjoyed the class and did learn I still much prefer the in class setting. Although the younger crowd coming in late was rather irritating.
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