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Plan to hire native English-speaking teachers in Thailand

The Office of Basic Education Commission (Obec) will seek a Bt350million budget to hire 300 native English-speaking teachers for its primary and secondary schools to tackle the shortage of English teachers, a senior official said yesterday.

According to the proposal, the native speakers would each get about Bt1 million per year - a salary of Bt83,000 per month - compared to the Bt9,000 per month drawn by Thais teaching English.

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Teaching Jobs in Thailand

With English language being applauded as a global language today, the ascendancy of huge necessity of English in all sectors of work calls for the great demand of quality English teachers trained with ESL / EFL teaching. Hence, the need and job opportunities of teaching English ranges from primary schools to corporate sectors.

The TESOL Certificate Course in Thailand is acclaimed as perfect Teachers training program by native English teachers. The 120 hour onsite TESOL Certification program conducted by ATI (American TESOL Institute) cover the fundamentals of teaching English to non native English Speakers.

The perfect blend of the theory and practice in the English teaching certification course helps the native English speakers to learn the skills of an ESL teacher. The course provides the ESL teachers with credentials to earn a job at Kindergarten, public school, universities, corporate houses, language schools, volunteer work and teaching English to private individual learners.

Getting an American TESOL certification literally opens one up to an entirely new world of opportunities for its graduates. 

The American TESOL certification and a Bachelors or High School Degree, are the standard requirements for teaching English abroad, and with a certificate, you can teach virtually anywhere in the world. Some of the most arresting teaching currently include, but are certainly not limited to, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Turkey, Vietnam, Thailand, Latin America, Eastern and Western Europe and the Middle East. 

American TESOL Institute provides an internationally recognized TEFL certificate, which is fast becoming a prerequisite for an English Teaching job anywhere in the world.

Usually, the work hours vary between 15 – 30 hours per week with a pay at around $230 - $530 a week for fresh graduates holding and TESOL / TEFL Certificate depending upon schools. The basic salary of an ESL / EFL teacher averages about $12,000 - $20,000 a year. Generally a health care plan or any kind of pension is included during the teaching tenure depending upon the schools or organizations. Payment is usually figured on an hourly basis.

Accommodation is provided by some schools or in case the employers do not provide that, then home-stay, privately rented room or dormitory, on shared basis or single occupancy, can be various options of staying. The costs usually comes at nominal costs depending upon different countries. Initially, if your employer does not provide accommodation, finding a house without any assistance might be a little difficult task, so in that case, you may ask for help or seek for initial accommodation to be provided at the start of the work.

ATI's TESOL Course offers very lucrative job prospects in the corporate fields. Banking or Computing English as a free-lancer in various organizations, manifold business oriented jobs and various other metropolitan centers offer good platforms for high-paid white-collar jobs in the private sector.
Security of jobs can be achieved in the higher educational sector which involves a pre-requisite of higher educational degree like a Master's or a Post Doctoral Degree.

ATI's TESOL Certification Course and TEFL programs give you the opportunity to experience all of this with the added advantage of teaching abroad, immersing and assimilating cultures, languages and societies vastly different from your own. Teaching ESL / EFL can mean much more than spending a gap year abroad and teachers with good qualifications and experience can build a rewarding and diverse career for themselves.

In Language Schools, Corporate Training, Public Relationship Companies or getting placed as Voice and Accent trainers, Soft skill trainers - one gains the unparalleled opportunity to further his / her career goals. Whether you are planning to teach long term or on a contractual basis or just want to have the option for job placement anytime in the future, ESL / EFL jobs help you get a lifetime support.

The TESOL Certification Course in Chiang Mai, Thailand that are designed by American TESOL Institute string unique opportunities of learning, absorbing unique cultural experience of the Orient while interacting with the local people across different nations, overcoming invigorating teaching challenges and at the same time pampering the traveler within you.