Guy Mandude, it's a gadget IMO. But damned I want one
My school doesn't even supply a whiteboad marker. I just get excited when I hear that others teachers have apparatus in their rooms.Originally Posted by daneel
Guy Mandude, it's a gadget IMO. But damned I want one
After working for a year without books I can say that they are the greatest things in the world. I now use books as I don't work for a run down self important government school and they help so much.
Daniel Bedingfield claimed that his new album is what it would sound like if Sting, Stevie Wonder and Micheal Jackson were in a basement together - I haven't got the album so I'll have to imagine the sound of a blind bloke and a Geordie kicking the shit out of a pedophile.
A little off topic; so currently, in order to teach in Thailand, you need to show your original diploma (to prove you hold at least a BA), proof you have taken the cultural course (how do you enroll in one? and how much does it cost?), and a criminal background check from your home country to your employer?
Is this all you need?
I apologize if I am moving this thread toward another direction. I thought I can confirm here instead of starting a new thread.
Thanks.
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The requirements wanted by the Teachers' Council of Thailand are here: http://www.ajarnforum.net/vb/975202-post1.html (What should the requirements be for foreign teachers in Thailand?)
This doesn't mean that all schools apply these requirements.
Immigration or Labour have never asked me for my original degree and transcript.
What they want at our Immigration Office is a receipt of a TL application from the TCT or the (temporary) TCT teacher license itself. http://www.ajarnforum.net/vb/939629-post5.html (second scan)
It is reported that many Immigration Offices don't ask for it.
Between 6,000 and 8,000 THB http://www.ajarnforum.net/vb/977416-post8.html
Call them for the current prices.
I was never asked one but I do have it.
Hope this helped. Cheers,
Stamp
Recommended: either A)Experience or Some Recognized training in Teaching or if working with children, working with children B)Documented successful experience working with children.
Required: Degree (BA) any subject from a Regionally Approved Institution. (Like Western Assoc. of Schools and Colleges), if working with children a background check either: byPolice, employer, TCT, MOE or a subcontractor approved by one of these: It is real easy in the US. Too much information already exist about everyong.
The basic report costs only $2.95 from an internet souce like: https://find.intelius.com/people-search-ssn.html
Verification Services
Now how HR would use it here is questionable at best. Any good HR department in the states has something like this online as do almost all apartment owners, creditors, etc. They might equate bad debt for $28 five years ago from a mail order house as a terrible offense. Who knows?
EU probably has something similar. I am sure Canada does too. OZ? NZ? SA? If you can't get it this way, you go to the phone and make a few calls. There really is no excuse to keep employing Offenders in Education with all this out there and then have to deal with the knee jerk reactions that the lack of such a process causes for the rest of the teachers here. That is my opinion and 2 cents worth anyway.
By the way the above service costs about $50 for one month, $150 a year, maybe $20 for one time use.
Also I think all people working with children should have a mandatory TB health check every 4 years. Not to fire anyone, just to make sure that schools do not become the major vector of the disease to a population. (Couple it with treatment. Which is usually cheap and effective in early stages.)
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Wow, so you do not need to actually take the class, as long as you pay for it!....how Thai is that!!.....LOL. It reminds me of the health check.
I have taught previously in Thailand for a few years. At the time I was leaving (Jan 2007) they were starting to implement the new requirements. I was curious to know specifically what they were, since I am considering coming back.
Thanks Stamp and KMS101 for the info.
Cream, I long for books. I don't have books now and that's a problem. The Thai teachers use a text that is too difficult for the students, so that's about as useful to me as tits on a nun. While I don't pay to rent the whiteboard, I do supply my own markers and refill ink. Lord, I wish I had textbooks. And another job to go with the textbooks.
A great sense of humor is indispensable to working in a Thai govt school. As my school completely doesn't give a shit about paperwork for me, I don't either.
I used to enjoy the freedom I had to set my own goals and lessons for the students, but now that I use books geared to student levels its really good. I like to be able to do 50% book 50% of my own stuff, can make stuff more difficult if the unit in the book is too easy etc and vice versa.
Have a class of 53 tourism development staff on monday though.... still trying to work out what extra stuff I can do with them
We should start a debate on that, lol, shold teachers be required to pay rent for whiteboard usage?No markers? do you have to pay rent for using the white board as well?
The white board would never need cleaning or replacing if I was working there.
but yea the apparatus stuff compensates pretty good for not having books, but I wouldn't need apparatus if there would be decent books for the kids, good books and a bit of doodling on the board should suffice IMO.
Whoever doesn't get whiteboard markers from there school man should consider moving I reckon, unless the school is just so poor it cannot afford them that is
I've got some stuff for you to have man, do you have email, pm me man, i'll send something over you can use, check out Primary Resources - Free teaching resources, lesson plans, teaching ideas & worksheets for primary and elementary teachers for elementary but there is also tonnes of other stuff for various other levels too.
I also recommend becomming a member at the british council so you can borrow materials from them, it costs 800 per year and they have a fairly substantial library including audio and video resources,
hope that helps
ben
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Sounds like you are in the boonies? where are you teaching?
At a central Bangkok govt high school. At this point, I've become philosophical about where I fit into the teaching world. My entire career has revolved around teaching hard-luck cases in possibly the worst schools in America, and now in Bangkok. I enjoy teaching English as content to ESL/EFL students, but my current students just don't have the horsepower or interest. And who can blame them?
I firmly believe that classroom environment has a huge impact of student motivation and learning. I spent years transforming a US ghetto classroom into something that looked more like a livingroom, and the results were outstanding. Students transferred into my classes until they were at capacity (35). Other teachers asked me to consult with them on improving their classroom aesthetics. Now, I'm in a filthy, decrepit building with no resources. I don't have a snowball's chance in hell of working around the Thai education system (i.e., one hour a week with me) standard for English language instruction, much less the inadequate facilities.
So I have my sense of humor. That's the most important requirement for me to teaching in my particular school. When that fails me, I'm in trouble.
Bro, have you checked out D.K. Bookstore. I KNOW they have textbooks specific to tourism English.Have a class of 53 tourism development staff on monday though.... still trying to work out what extra stuff I can do with them
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Sounds like you know what you are doing, Thailand requires an acquired taste and a sense of humor! A sense of humor helps you get through those shitty days. You can't take everything too seriously in LOS.
Maybe you can have your students help setup your classroom since you are short on time?
I have to adapt. In Thailand, I don't have a classroom as I did in the US where students would come to me. In LOS, I travel to a different classroom every class, so it isn't possible to create a room environment that works for me.
But you're right about not taking anything too seriously. The Thai teachers tend to be serious whilst I am not. On those days when I lose my sense of humor about this absurdist comedy of an education system, what a black mood sets in.
One of my favorite observations in Lao was a local Lao teacher without any supplies except one board, some chalk, outside (because the town was just building a school) students with no supplies learning to write with sticks in the dirt. There were some tent tops (coverings so some shade). It probably doesn't get any more basic than that. And she was doing a good job. Students on task and engaged.
Myself: If it ain't got an air conditioner, "Thank you very much for your time. Have a good day." and hope the door doesn't hit me on the way out.
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