From the Periphery to the Center

George Braine's "From the Periphery to the Cente" made me reflect my career as an English teacher in Korea. In many parts, I can really understand the situation in Sri Lanka, because it's not so different from Korea at that time. According to the article, she was the first trainned teacher of English in the school's 40-year history. I remember one of my English teacher in high school whose major was not English. It was not the rare case. At that time there was not enough qualified English teachers because most young iob seekers prefer to entring big company like Samsung and they could earn much more money than teachers.
But now there's big change and improvement in teachers as well as Korean society. Nowadays new English teachers have English proficiency and almost have at least one year studing experience in native countries. 2 years ago I attended the Seminar provided by the Epik with my native teacher, one of the presenter described Korean English class as passive and teacher-centered, she couldn't finish her presentation because of native teachers' disagreement about that. I think she had too old data.
And I also doubt that only native teacher is the best way in teaching Englsih. It gives English teachers much more works to do. Sometimes he/she doesn't know about the tecahing plan and the basic know-how to treat the students. They can get a job too easy with only Englsh. A few days ago Korea Education department announced that from next year they recruit Enghish assistant teachers from India who are highly qualified as a teacher. But actually native teachers in Korea are assistant teachers, so there is less porblem. It means they can't be a homeroom teacher and teach students alone or independently.
As Canagarajah said, language teaching is an art, science and a skill that requires complex pedagogical preparation and practice. I know that there's no guarnatee that I will be a better teacher after finidhing my MA cousre than before. Preparation porper to the context that I will meet with open mind to changes, maybe it's closer to the better teacher. Teachers and students are always in Center of education.