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Originally Posted by Jasetheace
Hi Para,
I moved to Thailand last year to do my TEFL course in Patong beach in the hope of being an english teacher as I wanted to live here with my Thai gf. Anyone can do this and then get a teching job as I did but it is very hard in Patong as there are not many schools here offering opportunties. Phuket town however is easy to find work and is only a 10 - 15 minute scooter ride from Patong. Heres what i did. After completing my TEFL I found it very hard to get work initially so decided to move to Bangkok as there are many opportunities there. I purchased a degree from khao san rd and then got hired from my first interview with a very good company who contracts you out to government schools around bangkok. They gave all of their new teachers a good orientation week before you started teaching which was a massive help to getting me started and they had all your curriculum and lesson plans supplied to you so the job was made easy and you had plenty of support including a thai assistant in the class who spoke english. salary was 33000 baht plus completion of semester bonus of 10000 baht. easily enough to live on, and in fact i supported myself and gf on this. i then got offered a position in phuket town as once you have initial experience i found it is much easier to get work. similar set up as bkk but not as well organised and although we were told what to teach you had to come up with your own lesson plan to deliver it to the students. pay was hourly @ 270 baht an hour and a bonus of 30 baht an hour at the end of semester meaning you are earning around 25000 baht a month. i got a cheap but nice apartment in phuket town and came over to patong to party every weekend. i left thailand after the tsunami and have recently returned and am currently in patong. there is not alot of work around at the mo down here but as always i see plenty of positions in the bkk post and i know of companies in bkk always looking for teachers. i can also reccomend places in phuket town that are often looking as well. next week i am off to teach for 6 days at summer camps in hua hin and chumpon where they pay you food and hotel and a small daily wage to make it worth your while, although i am mainly doing it for the experience. anyway yes it can be done and if you can learn to eat cheap meals and live in cheap apartments you can survive here teaching english. if you need to know anything else feel free to ask. good luck!  |
You teach English?
No offence, but your post is littered with grammatical errors and is not paragraphed. Is the education simply geared towards helping the Thai children to be able to communicate with tourists?