If you
have reached the point where you are giving serious consideration
to teaching English in Thailand I don’t need to spend a lot of your
valuable time telling you what a wonderful place Thailand is to
visit or explain the warm, welcoming nature of Thai people.
You already know all of that or you wouldn’t be considering a stay
of several months to multiple years in Thailand.
Thailand is the most popular tourist destination in South East
Asia. Its export and tourism markets are major factor fueling its
economy. The ability to communicate in English is becoming a
necessity to the people of Thailand.
While English is the language of international commerce and trade
it is not spoken widely in Thailand. It is spoken as a first
language by more than 300 million people and countless others have
the ability to speak enough English to be able to communicate and
make themselves understood. English is the language of the Internet
with more than eighty percent of the available content being in
English. These facts are becoming apparent to Thais.
The need to be fluent in English has lead to an ever growing demand
for native English speakers to teach English in Thailand. There are
more jobs teaching English than there are qualified people to fill
them with the result that there are many people who are not
qualified teaching English and doing a poor job of it.
The days when all you needed to do to get a job teaching abroad in
Thailand was to be a native English speaker are rapidly
coming to an end. The government of Thailand is trying to weed out
those who don’t have the necessary qualification and who can’t do
an effective job of teaching. To work in a government school you
now must have the required qualifications.
If you want to teach English in Thailand you need a TEFL (Teaching
English as a Foreign Language) certificate and you need the
specialized instruction that will prepare you to do the all
important job of teaching English.
Jobs teaching English are easy to find and can pay any where from
five thousand Baht a month for teaching in an after school program
to seventy thousand Baht a month teaching English in an
international school in Bangkok. The crying need for English
teachers is nation wide so you can chose where you want to live and
teach.
If your are into teaching for the love of teaching and providing
much needed help to poor children who desperately need a leg up in
the world there are many volunteer programs you can work with and
make a real and lasting difference in peoples lives.
There are many ways that you can get the training and certification
necessary to get a job teaching English in Thailand. There are
online schools that offer classes and award a TEFL certificate but
these are not generally regarded as having much merit when it comes
to getting hired in one of the better, well paying teaching
positions.
There are many schools throughout Thailand that offer TEFL
training. They run the course from little mom and pop shops to some
fine and well regarded programs. They all claim that the
certificate they award is accredited by someone but have a tendency
to get a bit vague when you want to discuss the
accreditation. The value of the certificates they award you
becomes apparent when you are out there trying to get the job you
want.
If you want to teach English
in Thailand there is only one best choice to get the training you
need. The Chiang Mai
University Language Institute’s
120-Hour TEFL Certificate Course is
regarded as the best there is in Thailand. It is the only
university accredited TEFL training course in
Thailand.
With over 36,000 enrolled students, Chiang Mai University is
one of the largest and most well-regarded universities in the South
East Asian region. A degree, diploma, or certificate from
Chiang Mai University is recognized has been recognized for almost
50 years globally by employers. Currently Chiang Mai
University TEFL graduates are working all over South East Asia,
China, Korea, Japan, Europe, the US, and Australia. A CMU TEFL
Certificate enjoys particularly high recognition within
Thailand.
Chiang Mai University's 120-hour TEFL
Certificate Program
allows you access and
assistance from Chiang Mai University's TEFL Job Database that
offers jobs from around the world, but particularly SEA, China,
Korea, and Japan.
If you decide to enroll in Chiang Mai University’s 120-hour TEFL
Certificate Program, you will also receive, 20 hours of beginner’s
Thai instruction, visa assistance, housing assistance, and full CMU
university student privileges including the swimming pool,
libraries, gym, etc.
The classes for the 120-hour
TEFL Certificate Program are conducted at the Chiang Mai
University’s Language Institute, which is the largest ESL/EFL
teaching complex of its type in South East Asia.
It is unusual for graduates to take longer than three weeks to find
a suitable teaching position. Graduates from Chiang Mai
University's TEFL program are highly regarded by employers and are
in great demand. This high regard makes the program very popular,
so if you decide to do the 120-hour program please make sure that
you enroll as soon as is convenient as the classes fill
quickly.
