Required Qualifications to Teach in Thailand
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Until 2008 the policy was that a foreign teacher, in order to qualify for a work permit to teach in Thailand, needed to have a minimum of a bachelor's degree from a recognized university.
As of March 2009, the Teachers Council, a division on the Ministry of Education Thailand, introduced the following amendments in order to ensure that all teachers in Thailand have a minimum number of Education course credits along with their bachelor degree.
The following teaching requirements apply to teach in Thailand:
- Category # 1 - a foreign Teacher with a Bachelor of Education degree-is required to take a 20 hour Thai culturalization course-( 3 Days) -during their teaching contract year, in order to have a work permit to teach in Thailand.As there is a very short supply of Bachelor of Education teachers available worldwide the next category is the significant category.
- Category # 2 - a Foreign Teacher with any other degree than a Bachelor of Education degree ( Bachelor of Arts, Science, English etc-or Masters in Arts, Science-etc.) will be required to either:
- pass an exam on several aspects of education ( nearly impossible without Education Courses)or
- complete a prescribed set of education courses through an approved Thai University
The cost for the courses is 60,000 baht.
Upon completion the teacher will have earned the right to apply for a teaching license in Thailand and consequently, will then have the right to apply for a working permit to teach in Thailand.
The intent of these new regulations are admirable-to upgrade the quality of all teachers in Thailand, Foreign and Thai.
The problem is that this teaching license and these teaching credits are only valuable in Thailand.
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