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<blockquote data-quote="buddhafrog" data-source="post: 5314423" data-attributes="member: 86605"><p>I've been in and out of the country for many years, with family now in both Korea and the states. I brought my family back here two years ago and rather than teaching at a traditional school, my wife and I are tutoring kids in our house - this usually gives me small classes with 2~4 students advanced students. I bought my son lots of miniatures for Christmas and realized I should try to play D&D with him. I put him in one of my advanced classes which had two of his friends. The class meets five days/week, and we played D&D twice as primarily a communication class (with a little more, and also with the requirement that they did very well on their weekly 100 word vocab test). It went amazingly well. </p><p></p><p>Soon, all the classes heard about this strange concept of playing - in the land of computer gaming, paper and pencil gaming is completely foreign. And yet, story-telling games and MMO's are comfortable concepts. We have tons of minis which also attract the kids interest.</p><p></p><p>I started playing with other advanced classes once/week, assuming test scores remain high. It's been great. The kids love coming to class. Sometime "study" classes revolve around D&D topics even on non-playing days. The kids study hard, they have a good attitude towards class, and on D&D days, they really "use" English with little thinking/worries, instead focusing on simple communication. </p><p></p><p>This set-up is awesome. I get to spend many hours/day on D&D prep and/or play - and get paid for it. But also as a teacher in a society where students commonly over-study until 11 or 12 at night (we finish teaching at 12:30am), it feels good to bring a different concept of learning to these kids' lives. Nearly 1/4 of my teaching hours are now D&D gaming days, and because tutors in Korea make comparatively very high hourly wages, I earn a significant amount through DM'ing. It makes me chuckle. And smile.</p><p></p><p>It is also pretty difficult to recreate, I would think. If you tutor in your house or possibly tutor at students houses, it might work. I used to teach at private schools, and if I were to ever do that again (which I wouldn't), I would convince the boss to let me teach some D&D classes on Friday for students who passed a certain level. I would make the game classes open to any student who wanted to quietly watch. The campaign would have to be flexible so that students could enter/leave every month, but it would be doable. I think this set-up would be very motivating for the students and would be unique - the kids would love it.</p><p></p><p>To me, this set-up just sort of happened. But it makes so much sense and has gone so well. I've looked and haven't read about anyone else doing this sort of thing. Others should do this for sure. It works and isn't too hard to incorporate into your other classes. </p><p></p><p>Are you teaching in Japan - or are you Japanese?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddhafrog, post: 5314423, member: 86605"] I've been in and out of the country for many years, with family now in both Korea and the states. I brought my family back here two years ago and rather than teaching at a traditional school, my wife and I are tutoring kids in our house - this usually gives me small classes with 2~4 students advanced students. I bought my son lots of miniatures for Christmas and realized I should try to play D&D with him. I put him in one of my advanced classes which had two of his friends. The class meets five days/week, and we played D&D twice as primarily a communication class (with a little more, and also with the requirement that they did very well on their weekly 100 word vocab test). It went amazingly well. Soon, all the classes heard about this strange concept of playing - in the land of computer gaming, paper and pencil gaming is completely foreign. And yet, story-telling games and MMO's are comfortable concepts. We have tons of minis which also attract the kids interest. I started playing with other advanced classes once/week, assuming test scores remain high. It's been great. The kids love coming to class. Sometime "study" classes revolve around D&D topics even on non-playing days. The kids study hard, they have a good attitude towards class, and on D&D days, they really "use" English with little thinking/worries, instead focusing on simple communication. This set-up is awesome. I get to spend many hours/day on D&D prep and/or play - and get paid for it. But also as a teacher in a society where students commonly over-study until 11 or 12 at night (we finish teaching at 12:30am), it feels good to bring a different concept of learning to these kids' lives. Nearly 1/4 of my teaching hours are now D&D gaming days, and because tutors in Korea make comparatively very high hourly wages, I earn a significant amount through DM'ing. It makes me chuckle. And smile. It is also pretty difficult to recreate, I would think. If you tutor in your house or possibly tutor at students houses, it might work. I used to teach at private schools, and if I were to ever do that again (which I wouldn't), I would convince the boss to let me teach some D&D classes on Friday for students who passed a certain level. I would make the game classes open to any student who wanted to quietly watch. The campaign would have to be flexible so that students could enter/leave every month, but it would be doable. I think this set-up would be very motivating for the students and would be unique - the kids would love it. To me, this set-up just sort of happened. But it makes so much sense and has gone so well. I've looked and haven't read about anyone else doing this sort of thing. Others should do this for sure. It works and isn't too hard to incorporate into your other classes. Are you teaching in Japan - or are you Japanese? [/QUOTE]
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