Hello. I've been teaching English to High School kids in a small town in Nakhon Sawan Province for 5 and a half years and I'm on my 3rd Teacher Licence Waver. My plan is to return to England and go to University this October for a year so that I can come back to Thailand and apply for my full Teaching Licence. I've read that I need a 'Degree in education or a (post) graduate diploma in education / teaching profession' and was planning to do a postgraduat course 'MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.' I figure this would be more suitable than a PGCE since it has a language component. I would be really grateful if anybody could give me any advice at all on this. I've spoken to Khurusapa and they say either a Bachelors or Masters in Education would be fine, so long as it's from an accredited University and I have 1 years experience teaching. Slightly confusingly this experience must be after I've gained my new teaching qualification (so the 5 years I've already taught won't count) and I've heard from conflicting sources that I can get on a 4th waver on the basis that I'll be working towards the Teacher Licence, or that the wavers will be reset completely after I've been out the country for a year. I hope somebody out there can give me some advice. My ultimate goal is to become a better teacher and be able to work in a decent school which pays a decent salary so I can start saving for the future and start a family (i.e. quite a bit more than the 30,000 baht I'm on at the moment). Thanks in advance!
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Hello. I've been teaching English to High School kids in a small town in Nakhon Sawan Province for 5 and a half years and I'm on my 3rd Teacher Licence Waver. My plan is to return to England and go to University this October for a year so that I can come back to Thailand and apply for my full Teaching Licence. I've read that I need a 'Degree in education or a (post) graduate diploma in education / teaching profession' and was planning to do a postgraduat course 'MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.' I figure this would be more suitable than a PGCE since it has a language component. I would be really grateful if anybody could give me any advice at all on this. I've spoken to Khurusapa and they say either a Bachelors or Masters in Education would be fine, so long as it's from an accredited University and I have 1 years experience teaching. Slightly confusingly this experience must be after I've gained my new teaching qualification (so the 5 years I've already taught won't count) and I've heard from conflicting sources that I can get on a 4th waver on the basis that I'll be working towards the Teacher Licence, or that the wavers will be reset completely after I've been out the country for a year. I hope somebody out there can give me some advice. My ultimate goal is to become a better teacher and be able to work in a decent school which pays a decent salary so I can start saving for the future and start a family (i.e. quite a bit more than the 30,000 baht I'm on at the moment). Thanks in advance!