brucetefl

If there were cash prizes for my daughter (who also won first prize) they certainly never mentioned it! But like your son the put her on a big poster outside the school.

My two sons play basketball and have both played on provincial championship teams and on provincial all star teams. The kids know the coaches get money when the teams win but the kids get very little if anything. Maybe a few hundred baht to cover their food costs.

Oh well.

TEFL courses are four weeks. You can accomplish a lot in four weeks but its still just four weeks.

And TEFL courses are different. Some of them do a decent job of preparing you for working in a language school and some of them will help you to prepare for those big classrooms. When we ran our TEFL course in Ban Phe we went to the government schools for our observed Teaching practice (something all good TEFL courses should have at least 6 hours of). That way the teachers 8 hours of real experience teaching those big classes. For people who have never taught before and are not very confident its invaluable.

OF COURSE I misspelled "misspelled" and "forum" intentionally.

I often have typos and mis spellings, but that one was intentional. People who freak out about misspellings on a forum like this bug me, though. its JUST a forum!

See? All that money spent on his US degree and he cannot even spell correctly! I guarantee every student at Thongsook College never mispeles words when posting on this forem!

One can only hope this is dark humour. :-)

Why the hostility, people?

I kind of get a kick out the self righteous people who decry those evil law breakers.

Ever take one of the girls home from Nana?

Anyone ever had a drink on a buddhist holiday?

Download a movie?

Jaywalk?

by the way, joshstiles, a few years ago my wife and I opened a small English school in a small town in Chonburi. We went to the municipal office to register the school and this is what was said:

Us: "We would like to register our English school."

Officer: "How long have you been operating your school?"

Us: "Sorry, we are here to register the school so we can begin teaching."

Officer: So you are not even open yet? Open your school and see how it goes. If you are still open in six months, come and register. Otherwise its all just a waste of time, right?"

And if I can humbly use myself as an example, sometimes us lowly scum who open small English schools with our wives end up ok.

While I would agree, I very much doubt they would make a big issue about a husband teaching in a wife's small language school.

From my experience, Labor and immigration simply see an opportunity to make some money when these things occur. There isn't much money in a (literally mom and pop) small language school. If the same thing happened at one of the big name schools with many foreign teachers the manager of that school better go to the ATM and get out a few hundred thousand baht. Then suddenly the problem would all go away.

Again, I agree, but anyone who's lived in Thailand long enough realizes that all of these things are also enforced subjectively. So unless you have managed to anger someone probably wouldn't be a big deal. Illegal, certainly illegal, but not a big deal.

A good friend of mine, A very well-educated American who speaks reads and writes Thai and has been living here off and on for over 30 years told me something once that I've always remembered. As we all know, Thailand has never been colonized and for century after century laws have been stacked upon laws. In fact, if you look hard enough, there's probably a law that contradicts almost every other law.

From the labor law that I have read, all work is illegal without a work permit. But the way this is written cooking your own breakfast could be considered work and illegal.

I doubt any of my rantings makes sense but I hope they're useful.

I would not want to be in the position of arguing the finer points of Thai labor law with officials of the Labor Department when they come to inspect your wife's school and find you "volunteering" there.


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A good friend of mine, A very well-educated American who speaks reads and writes Thai and has been living here off and on for over 30 years told me something once that I've always remembered. As we all know, Thailand has never been colonized and for century after century laws have been stacked upon laws. In fact, if you look hard enough, there's probably a law that contradicts almost every other law.

From the labor law that I have read, all work is illegal without a work permit. But the way this is written cooking your own breakfast could be considered work and illegal.

I doubt any of my rantings makes sense but I hope they're useful.

These are interesting questions that will probably result in many different kinds of answers.

For me, when I was teaching in Hong Kong, I would never allow my students to know that I could speak Chinese because when they knew they would never speak to me in English again. But certainly speaking time would be extremely helpful with the administration and fellow teachers.

I don't think there's one personality type or skill that allows for success in the classroom. I can tell you from my experience people who have a background in theater always do very well. But I've seen some very quiet and reserved teachers be very good in the classroom as well.

upset YOUR apple cart makes sense. Upset our apple cart makes no sense there.

And what is the stamp IT reference?

Is this an inside joke? I'm lost.

Come on, guys. Someone must have a Thai friend looking for a new opportunity!

See? All that money spent on his US degree and he cannot even spell correctly! I guarantee every student at Thongsook College never mispeles words when posting on this forem!

not just because of the laws of Thailand, but decency and PROFESIONALISM.

Professionalism. :-)

I think you are making an overgeneralization. Many Masters degrees can be completed by distance-learning if they are research-based. Some excellent universities offer these types of masters degrees. And, there are certainly some crap courses out there as well.

sorry about the Email.

Yes ESPECIALLY open to Thais as the Thai SAR (its an internal assessment all degrees need to complete) is mainly in Thai.

But anyone proficient in Thai and English can apply.

You lost me....

Bruce <---> Stamp. Ha ha!

I will start us out with a link from another thread:

http://www.elearning.au.edu/medtt/

Why don't we start a thread where people can discuss viable options for getting their masters in ED overseas online? People have mentioned that it's a possibility but let's get some concrete information on which universities and what the costs are. Good idea?

And you have nothing better to do than troll errors in my voice recognition software? Kind of sad.

And i would agree withyou troll, I mean fifth column. getting a bachelors degree in liberal arts from a US university is better than getting your bachelors degree in TESOL from Thongsook College.

of course the cheapest you could realistically get a bachelor's degree in the US is $50,000. And that also requires you to spend four years back in the United States.

that's a viable option. Put yourself in fifty thousand dollars worth of debt so that you can teach English in Thailand. Then of course, you still need to get that masters degree on top of that so you'relegal..

but anyone that's not a troll would also agree that getting agree in teaching English that costs only 3000 baht per month is also a viable option for obtaining that degree.

There are many good masters degrees in education from Australia US and the UK available online. Not to mention India in the Philippines. But, you need a degree first.

Yes this looks like an excellent option. What are the fees?

Application Requirements

1. Having earned a Bachelor Degree or higher in any field from an accredited university.

Or Fifthcolumn can try using his TEFL cert. Same thing!

http://www.iis.ru.ac.th/English_Program/Teacher_Qualification/diploma_in_teaching_profession.htm

IF i read all correctly, this might be a possible way? AFTER having a degree ( of any kind, what doesnt exclude a BA TESOL)?

There are many routes to getting a teachers license in Thailand. And this is true for the new standards as well as the old. You can take exams and get Distance Learning diplomas or online masters degrees. But before you can do any of those YOU NEED A DEGREE. Any degree. Because if you go out and get a Diploma in Education and still have no degree you will be denied a Teachers License. Same goes for a Masters Degree, although few (if any) MA programs would accept someone without having... a degree,

Its also possible to go out and get a B. Ed. But that is likely to be very time consuming and extremely expensive. B ED are not available by Distance Learning (that I have seen). Going "back home" to get one is not something most people want to do and most cannot afford it.

On the other hand some of these other options are available. But you need that degree. having a degree makes taking those final steps to get a teachers license more easily attainable and far more affordable.

And it needs to be a degree that teachers in Thailand can afford. Maybe something like 3,000 baht per month.

And they cannot afford it if they cannot continue working. So a flexible schedule that allows them to attend during holidays is an attractive option, especially for those not living in Bangkok.

Once teachers have this degree they have a lot more options. Getting a TESOL certificate is not going to do it. Thats a joke.

Its not for everyone, but many people have found it to be a valuable option.

And all of this is pretty obvious to people who have even a basic knowledge of the TCT, which you apparently have.

If I have not already made myself very clear on every point you are simply trying, purposefully, not to understand.

I CERTAINLY did not say that "if you have a degree you are gold."