webfact Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Minister to focus on role of teachers By NOPHAKHUN LIMSAMARNPHUN THE NATION Teerakiat BANGKOK: -- NEWLY APPOINTED Education Minister Teerakiat Jareonsettasin is spearheading a reform of education with a focus on ensuring that the country’s 400,000 teachers put in quality time for their teaching responsibilities. Teerakiat said in an interview that the Office of Teacher Civil Service and Educational Personnel Commission (OTEPC) had recently passed a resolution to ensure teachers were not bogged down in excessive academic work. “Over the past many years, many of our teachers have preferred to do academic work, especially research and thesis work, to gain credentials so as to upgrade their professional status and earn more income – at the expense of their teaching hours and teaching quality.” Teerakiat quoted King Rama IX’s royal message on education in 2012: “Thai teachers tend to focus on writing thesis papers and textbooks for their supervisors in order to get a higher position and salary and sometimes they relocate to new places afterwards. Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30305241 -- © Copyright The Nation 2017-01-30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangon04 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 another day, another education minister, another speech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrowsdawdle Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Focus on the role of teachers? Such a revolutionary idea. Guess the education ministry is like the students and dare not cause a teacher to lose face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsensam Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 thank goodness my thai friends can afford to pay to send their children to fee paying schools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardColeman Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Try paying them more. My wife was a teacher. She gave it up as 11,000 a month didn't pay enough - 6 days, 10 hours a day. No travel expenses, no food allowance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 4 hours ago, webfact said: Minister to focus on role of teachers After reading the first four words I held my breath- hoping the following would turn out to: his job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khun Paul Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Now do away with the NO Fail policy and watch the pains then the successes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod reborn Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Maybe he should focus on teacher pay, and why all that funding that is budgeted never makes it to the teachers or for the benefit of the students. Obviously too scared what a little transparency in the MOE and the school administrators might reveal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exnavy Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 My daughter completed her exams for this school year, about two weeks ago. Since then, she has received very little by way of teaching because her teachers simply don't turn up, or may appear for the first 5/10 minutes of the lesson and then leave. Even pre exams, she was lucky to get a teacher for more than about 70 percent of actual teaching time, the one subject where a teacher was most in attendance being Buddhism. A few years ago I was asked by the local village school to teach English there, which I did. On several occasions, particularly afternoons, I was the only one teaching because the permanent teaching staff were all 'down the pub', celebrating a birthday or the purchase by one teacher of a new car. Thai teachers are a law unto themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johninbkk71 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 4 hours ago, samsensam said: thank goodness my thai friends can afford to pay to send their children to fee paying schools. True, if they're private EP/IP/mini-English or whatever the latest fashion is; the parents know their kids will get good grades. If not they can complain and the grades will be corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgordo38 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 8 hours ago, webfact said: with a focus on ensuring that the country’s 400,000 teachers put in quality time for their teaching responsibilities. And right after a truckload of confidence the next most used word is focus. Anyone have a spare rifle scope for this fellow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whinginggit Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 9 hours ago, webfact said: “Over the past many years, many of our teachers have preferred to do academic work, especially research and thesis work, to gain credentials so as to upgrade their professional status and earn more income – at the expense of their teaching hours and teaching quality.” Really? They have the learning capacity to do this? Surely their teaching quality would improve if they were actually doing something apart from copying and pasting from the internet! I have 2 nieces whom are 'English' teachers in BKK. They both can't speak a word of English. They say they are 'shy'! When they have a 'meeting' with heads they only communicate in Thai and show that their students have competent 'English' skills. Google Translate does 99% of the homework...the 'teacher' uses Google Translate to check their work...hence the 100% result! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redline Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 I swear, for the 8 years I have been here, there is a new Education minister every 3-6 months, and they all say the same things! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clockman Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 But a big trough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinsdale Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Stop stuffing money in your pocket and your other fat cat mates pockets. STOP CORRUPTION. Pay teachers more. We all know no matter who's in govt the huge wads of money for education end up being very small once everyone in positions of power have taken their cut. Corruption at the expense of educating children. What a sanctimonious, hypocritical piece of ..... . 15 hours ago, webfact said: “Over the past many years, many of our teachers have preferred to do academic work, especially research and thesis work, to gain credentials so as to upgrade their professional status and earn more income – at the expense of their teaching hours and teaching quality.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisH Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 9 hours ago, johninbkk71 said: True, if they're private EP/IP/mini-English or whatever the latest fashion is; the parents know their kids will get good grades. If not they can complain and the grades will be corrected. Never in my school will that happen:) The kids get the grade they deserve. 50 being the lowest. I give a few on those each semester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhys Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 16 hours ago, bangon04 said: another day, another education minister, another speech spot on.....ok.. you know what is coming next.... more educational technology teaching programs. Now in all fairness, some programs are good "supplements", especially with current student cell phone reliance. ... thus coming soon this "so called Educational Expert, political appointment" will announce a MOE special program (CALL) computer assisted language learning program that will guarantee all Thai students can speak "some" English... Millions and millions of baht research...has proven this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 There are few gov't agencies that can't be improved with some changes and tweaking, but the educational system in Thailand really requires a complete overhaul from top to bottom and back again. I have worked in over 14 countries (not in education in most, but with some responsibility for educational programs in quite a few). Never have I seen anything that compares to the incompetence of the Thai education system. I guess this posts sums it up. On 1/30/2017 at 8:19 AM, bangon04 said: another day, another education minister, another speech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazySlipper Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 On 1/30/2017 at 0:36 PM, Exnavy said: My daughter completed her exams for this school year, about two weeks ago. Since then, she has received very little by way of teaching because her teachers simply don't turn up, or may appear for the first 5/10 minutes of the lesson and then leave. Even pre exams, she was lucky to get a teacher for more than about 70 percent of actual teaching time, the one subject where a teacher was most in attendance being Buddhism. A few years ago I was asked by the local village school to teach English there, which I did. On several occasions, particularly afternoons, I was the only one teaching because the permanent teaching staff were all 'down the pub', celebrating a birthday or the purchase by one teacher of a new car. Thai teachers are a law unto themselves. Been teaching here almost 14 years. I dunno if this is a gvt school thing, but I never saw this in private schools. I only worked in two gvt schools and never saw anything even remotely resembling this. I am not backing the Thais but I don't believe in bashing anyone without justification. Things do slack off but off to the pub? Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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