SAVE the GIEI District Coordinator Position

Area Coordinators are essential to maintaining working relationships with the EPIK teachers qnd their coworkers. Without them, there would be very high turnover because most Native English Teachers often feel discriminated against, left out and ignored in the workforce.

This position is ABSOLUTE necessity to the english teaching community in the Gangwon Province.

I’m a former teacher and the coordinator helped me the entire time. Living and settling abroad is extremely difficult. This is is one resource that eased the transition. Please reconsider.

This is such an important resource for the foreign teachers in public schools.

GIEI has not been taking EPIK teachers' best interests seriously, and removing the coordinator position is another example of this. It's incredibly disappointing that GIEI continues to make decisions that will actively serve to make working as an EPIK teacher Gangwon difficult. Please reconsider, and really look at yourselves as an organization. We all deserve better.

I hope you preserve!

Having a coordinator is vital for native English teachers. Especially those coming into Korea for the first time.

The coordinator position is incredibly important and I believe it is a key part of helping the EPIK teachers.

I agree with this petition.

Coordinators are very important to us EPIK teachers and are still very useful to communication.

Its a vital position for new teachers to get acclimated and if anyones help the coordinator is there specifically for that. Taking the position away is like giving a middle finger to foreign teachers in the province.

I agree with this petition.

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This position is vital for Epik teachers integration into Korea upon arrival as well as during their entire time in Korea. They are an invaluable resource for knowledge, communication and mediation.

I agree that this position is extremely helpful to native English teachers. To secure the effectiveness of the EPIK program in Korea, the government must prioritize and care for the basic needs and means of communication with the NETs.

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I would have really struggled my first year and through Corona without our coordinator!

The coordinator position is vital to the development of a foreign English teacher in their role as an educator. More importantly, the coordinator play a huge part in helping teachers to maintain their mental health in knowing they can reach out in times of crisis rather than be abandoned to the lacking efforts of Korean Coteachers who don't care and don't even have cross cultural training or English fluency certificates. Speaking from personal experience of the latter, its an absolute nightmare and would result in more foreign teachers abandoning contracts.

Epik coordinators’ position should remain. I, as a Korean English teacher in Gangwon Province, believe the coordinators help so many things. If this position is gone, all the jobs they used to take in charge of are going to be ours, Korean co-teachers’. We already feel a burden of taking care of epik teachers at school. It’s going to make it worse after the change actually happens. Thus, the coordinator job position should stay.

The district coordinator is an important decision. Getting rid of that position is a very poor decision and it also tells EPIK teachers that you don't care, as you never communicated this to a single one of us before doing it. I'm strongly against your decision and implore that you save the coordinator position.