This is me again!🙃 I'm back from deep sleep😛🤪😜 I was too busy with family issues, my studies, and teaching. We already moved out close to our schools/workplaces, the good thing about it is that my kids who are incoming Grade 3 and Grade 1 are both studying at my school. But, we moved in about four years ago. This means that I haven't written any blogs from then on for 4 or 5 years.
Before we moved into our house, I also resigned from the government school where I worked as an English Conversation Teacher. Right now, I work as a Foreign Teacher in Grade 5, teaching Science and Health. But, I also have experience teaching English Language, Social Studies, Arts and Crafts, Cooking, and Drama.
Our school is a Catholic, private and bilingual school located in Minburi, Bangkok. I have a 50% discount on the tuition fees of my children (but, my partner pays for them, lol). From our place, it's about a 10-15 minute drive/travel going to work.
It came to a point where the system in government changed. Those who are non-education graduates must study units in education, which, I think is just right. They want to see to it that only qualified foreigners will be hired to do teaching jobs in Bangkok, Thailand. As many foreigners are just backpackers, they will get the job and then resign later on after they have gotten a big salary offer from beautiful provinces like Phuket, Chiangmai, Koh Samui, Bangkok City, etc.
Now, I had to decide to take up a master's degree in educational administration which, I failed to finish due to financial and time constraints. I couldn't be able to do the thesis writing because it required more time and cost me more money than I'd expected. I could almost finish but not the thesis writing. It was really a disaster because the Thai professor wasn't too equipped enough to guide me where I was supposed to go. There are two advisers but they don't agree with each other so I've given up on preserving my sanity and saving my time and money.
Trying to figure out how to go from here to there, I've learned that my decision was a blessing in disguise! It's because Educational Administration is not equal to teaching. It has education units but, in terms of the job description, it's different. It is more related to becoming an admin or principal. So, to cut the story short, I have downgraded in a good sense. I took a Diploma in Teaching Profession which is only 3 semesters with 33 credits. If you are interested to teach in Thailand, but you have Bachelor's Degree which is not related to teaching, you may copy the link below and search for more information about this program. It costs 74,000 Thai Baht for the whole course. I started in August of 2017 and will be finished in December (hopefully!)
https://www.stic.ac.th/postgraduate-program/graduate-diploma-in-teaching-profession
Working, studying and home management keeps me away from blogging again🥺 Now, it's summertime, and I have extra time to blog. I love working in summer school. This year is different because we'll go on a field trip. This is the first time in my four years of working in this school, that I will go on a field trip. It is going to be fun! They said it's somewhere in Ekkamai.
Time to go! I need to catch some sleep.. Bye for now... Zzzzzzzzzz🙃😴