Teachers Should Have A Degree

[ajarnjacquie]

I was just wanting some feedback for a M6 class.

If you go to see a Doctor, would you be prepared to see someone who has taken a weekend course on how to be a Doctor, or would you want to see a qualified Doctor?

If you come to school to learn, are you prepared to be taught by someone who has taken a weekend course on how to be a teacher, or do you want to study with a qualified teacher?

Answers to these two questions would be greatly appreciated, thanks for your time!!!

[The Dan Sai Kid]

I was just wanting some feedback for a M6 class.

If you go to see a Doctor, would you be prepared to see someone who has taken a weekend course on how to be a Doctor, or would you want to see a qualified Doctor?

If you come to school to learn, are you prepared to be taught by someone who has taken a weekend course on how to be a teacher, or do you want to study with a qualified teacher?

Answers to these two questions would be greatly appreciated, thanks for your time!!!

What is the definition of a qualified teacher?

CELTA, DELTA, BEd, PGCE, DGCE?

or

BA, BSC

[ajarnjacquie]

I was just wanting some feedback for a M6 class.

If you go to see a Doctor, would you be prepared to see someone who has taken a weekend course on how to be a Doctor, or would you want to see a qualified Doctor?

If you come to school to learn, are you prepared to be taught by someone who has taken a weekend course on how to be a teacher, or do you want to study with a qualified teacher?

Answers to these two questions would be greatly appreciated, thanks for your time!!!

What is the definition of a qualified teacher?

CELTA, DELTA, BEd, PGCE, DGCE?

or

BA, BSC

Qualified teacher defined by graduation status from a recgnised University - so either a Bed or BaDipEd

[ajarnjacquie]

I was just wanting some feedback for a M6 class.

If you go to see a Doctor, would you be prepared to see someone who has taken a weekend course on how to be a Doctor, or would you want to see a qualified Doctor?

If you come to school to learn, are you prepared to be taught by someone who has taken a weekend course on how to be a teacher, or do you want to study with a qualified teacher?

Answers to these two questions would be greatly appreciated, thanks for your time!!!

What is the definition of a qualified teacher?

CELTA, DELTA, BEd, PGCE, DGCE?

or

BA, BSC

Qualified teacher defined by graduation status from a recgnised University - so either a Bed or BaDipEd

Clarification PGCE - providing there is proof of substantial teaching practice hours.

CELTA - No

DELTA - No

DGCE - What is this?

BA & BSC - No - unless BADipED

BEd - Yes

Sorry - That's the requirements that the Thai teacher has asked the M6 student's to survey the Foreign staff for!!!

[Sporting Dog]

I was just wanting some feedback for a M6 class.

Sorry - That's the requirements that the Thai teacher has asked the M6 student's to survey the Foreign staff for!!!

If you go to see a Doctor, would you be prepared to see someone who has taken a weekend course on how to be a Doctor, or would you want to see a qualified Doctor?

I would want to see the qualified doctor. If there was none I would want to see a qualified Nurse. No Nurse - then the weekend trained doctor. If there was no-one else I'd want to see the fully-qualified Thai teacher pretending they can speak/teach English.

[PeaceBlondie]

Ajarn Jacquie, we are in Thailand, talking about how well qualified a teacher should be in reality, in Thailand to teach things to Thais. To teach neurosurgery at Chulalongkorn Faculty of Medicine, a mere doctorate in medicine wouldn't be enough. To teach linquistics in a Ph.D. program, an MA wouldn't be enough. To teach somtam vendors how to cut papaya, a P3 student could teach it.

C'mon, Jacquie, you're talking M6 English in a matayom school in Thailand, 95% of which must be government. I've done it with a BA, a TEFL, and no more than that. But at a real international school, then a B.Ed. and a TEFL, or their equivalents. Hey, my daughter is a real, fully qualified, licensed, experienced, top-notch science teacher in the second largest state of the USA, which doesn't even issue B.Ed.'s! Yeah, she's teaching higher chemistry with a BA. Also, the biggest country giving educational degrees to real teachers doesn't have PGCE's. No Thai teacher of English that I've met (amongst 50) knows the requirements of all the native English speaking countries, such as Ireland.

Jacquie, you don't need a brain surgeon for a headache; the clerk at the pharmacy with an M3 leaving certificate can find you the medicine. Teaching most M6 classes in Thailand is not equivalent to open heart surgery.

Pardon me, Jacquie, if I'm a bit curt to a new poster here; you're welcome to post something sensible, something reflecting the title "Ajarn." Besides, we've currently got a moratorium on opening new threads for these kinds of topics, so you're welcome to post in any open topic on the same subject. 'Bye, y'all.