sensei

3 hours ago, ozmeldo said:

Any supporting documentation like PD courses? Is there an outline or checklist of what they want, how many? Online?

 

I just submit certificates that I get from the activities we do in school. I don't have much this year and the school doesn't send us to such courses. 

BTW those were the only documents that I took there on my first renewal. I am hoping the rules have not changed much, It's been 5 years.

2 hours ago, aidenai said:

 

HOW DO YOU FIND THESE THINGS?
Are you from the FBI? 

Amazing! Thank you!

3 hours ago, BigBadGeordie said:

Not sure how you "unveil" a mountain and a 9 meter tall statue, but, hey ho, TIT.

You unveil with with a very bbbbbiiiiiggggg piece of cloth, of course! ????

I can't find that information from the Kurusapa website

Thank you!

I've searched the forum for answers but I can't find the specific answer I am looking for. I hope someone here can help me out with this. 

How many months before the expiration of my teacher's license should I go to Kurusapa  to have it renewed? 

 

I'll give the BIB a free tip..

Check FACEBOOK and Instagram. There are so many fake goods being sold there. This haul would be nothing compared to what's being sold online.

Google +'s 12 active user accounts were compromised. 

Brands were real, the shoes were fake.

I hope the BIB check Instagram too. Loads of fake bags, shoes, and perfumes sold there.

 

So Merriam-Webster just redefined the definition of the word funny.

If you have a document such as a school calendar from the start of the school year that states that you have to report only up to a certain date, then you can use that as an evidence that you are not required to stay for the entire moth of October. Even the Thai teachers are given at least a 2-week break. The same thing should apply to you.

I thought it was just a mole. 

I've had it for a long time and it was really small when it started. It was small but it had that searing pain when it touches clothing. A few years back, it started growing from a bump around 1mm to the size of a large raisin.

Then I noticed a HOLE on top. I thought it wasn't normal for a mole to have a hole with some black gross substance in it. I touched it and it had a really foul odor.

That was when i decided to go to see a doctor. I was bent on having it removed. It was exactly what the doctor decided on after seeing it. 

I had it taken out today at a local government hospital. The procedure was done in 20 minutes and it was painless. Well, at least for now when the effects of the local anesthesia is still working.  

It was very very cheap.

The doctor said the stitches need to be removed after a week and he wants to see me back after two weeks for the pathology report.

It was just a superficial cyst. I am really happy to have that taken out. 

About those keyboards..

If you are used to finding the COMMAND button right next to the spacebar, a Windows keyboard will has the ALT key in that spot.

23 hours ago, SlyAnimal said:

 

I've attached a copy of the Thai curriculium, in English.  It's from 10 years ago, but a lot will still apply.

 

I also have maths text books for M1 - M3 which likely follow the Thai curriculum, and could give you a list of the topics they cover.

My school didn't give me a text book or course outline or any guidance at all on what to teach M4 - M6, so I simply went and found the Thai teachers that were responsible for teaching each year group and asked them what they were going to be teaching, and then cherrypicked a few topics from that.  You'll likely find that the Thai maths teachers will know some of the math specific terms, and if you (or they) were to give examples then that might help to.

If you don't know any Thai, get an English teacher to translate for you, or to maybe just write something down for you which explains that you will be teaching maths and want to know what topics the Thai teachers will be teaching that semester.

However, in saying that, what I actually found was that a large proportion of the students were terrible at maths, and that they should actually still be learning primary school maths rather than high school maths.  Once I discovered this, I started giving the students pre-tests at the start of each year, which covered all of what I expected them to have learnt in primary school (Some of which, like squares, cubes and roots, are also covered in M1).

 

I found that in particular, students were terrible at equations involving negatives, and only a few students in each class understood the order of oprations (Even in M6!).  Likewise, their squares/cubes/roots were were below what I expected, with some students not even knowing how to calculate them, let alone just making errors.  Some students even made errors on basic times tables (I included everything from super easy questions like "7 + 15" to more difficult questions like "8² - 3³ x 4"). 

 

As a result, I felt that it was in the student's best interests to cover whichever areas of maths the pretest highlighted were weaknesses for the students, as well as giving them a refresher on the basic maths vocabulary at the same time, before I actually started teaching the curriculum.  I then gave them a post test at the end and found that most of them had improved a lot, so was well worth the maybe 5 - 6 lessons I spent on it.

Although, while going over their basic maths, I of course discovered that despite Thailand having a terrible reputation for learning by rote, only a few good students had actually learnt their times tables by rote, and so most needed a long time to think of the answers to basic multiplication problems, and a pen + paper to figure out basic division problems, which of course was going to make the actual curriculum extremely difficult for them.

Therefore, I setup a times tables speaking test as one of their assessments, and put up a cash prize for the top students in the class/school (Gave the same test to M1 - M6, as they all needed to work on it), with a practice test followed by a real test a week later, with learning to be done in their own time.  I assessed them via 1 minute speaking tests, in which the highest scores would be the winners (And the first 10 would contribute towards their grades). 

Some students still got 1s and 0s, and I found that with these students part of the problem was that although they could count to 10, and some could do some of the sums in Thai (I know a little Thai, so could ask them the equations in Thai),  they didn't even know 1 - 10 if the numbers were out of sequence, let alone 11 - 19 (Which are quite difficult, since they don't follow the regular format of the other numbers).  So this was yet another thing to work on, although I mainly just tried to motivate them to learn in their own time.

After which I finally started on the curriculum.  I hope that your students are smarter than mine were, although in saying that the top students were amazing, and could calculate equations faster than I could (Even in English, and despite not being a maths major, I was still pretty good at maths in high school), and had usually studied ahead via tutors so already knew how to do things before I even started writing on the whiteboard, they just needed to learn the English vocabulary for it. 

 

Anyway, moral of the story is that I think it's well worth initially doing your own curriculum to ensure that they know the basics before trying to teach them anything more complicated.

 

thai curriculum.pdf

Thanks for the input. I have an updated version here (2018).
This is for the main science course

 

Science Curriculum1 (1).docx

10 hours ago, bloody tiger said:

hi Sensai, did you ever find any links that you were after? This is exactly what I am chasing now

I'll send you a PM @BloodyTiger 

There's a thousand times more plastic in the bottle itself that they seem to be overlooking.

You might be happy – but are you rolling around in the mud and elephant poop and piss with a baby elephant happy?

I'd rather be sad and miserable.

On 9/23/2017 at 1:20 PM, KKr said:

is working on Apple and Windows.
What is your point ?

No it doesn't

It is made of reflective material similar to traffic signs.

It is usually printed with the name or logo of the local or European football team.

2 hours ago, pearciderman said:

 

The students buy their own POLO shirts (see the collar).

I took this pic while standing right behind her. She wasn't a student, I can guarantee that.

I guess Mr. Manchega studied English at KU.

9 hours ago, manchega said:

Always budget to provide free t-shirt every year at least once.  ask for budget for something useful and

and...

Go on please. 

The suspense is killing me!

I believe you owe us at least ONE picture...