Placebo
Joined: 19 Nov 2004
Posts: 80
Location: Bangkok
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 Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:50 am Post subject: My reality |
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| Ajarn Miguk wrote: |
| I have found so many exceptions to it over the years that I have learned your "reality" and someone else's may be very different. |
You are right, there are exceptions. I too, know of teachers working for international schools without a degree in education. They don't work as homeroom teachers but as ESL teachers on lower salaries. Experience often compensates for qualifications. However, if you look at the recruitment practices of international schools, then you will realise that most (not all) of their teachers are recruited directly from overseas through recruiting agencies.
Virtually all internationally accredited schools in Thailand recruit through ISS (International school sevices) and/or directly through CIS (Council of international schools). ISS and CIS organise yearly recruitment fairs in the U.S, Europe, Australia and sometimes in Asia. These recruitment fairs are very competitive. Only when there are emergency vacancies to be filled, will international schools consider hiring from the local pool of ESL teachers.
Believe me, it's not all that easy to get into an international school. I am trying...
If you want to check whether "my reality" is so far off from "someone else's", then go and convince yourself at the 2006 ISS recruitment fair, held in Bangkok(!) in January. You'll have to pay a register fee to participate, but you'll get a very good idea of what kind of competition you are up against.
You may think I'm contradicting myself in first saying that these schools will not hire locally, yet I'm talking about an ISS recruitment fair in Bangkok... This may sound like a joke but is very real: participating teachers will actually fly in from Australia and other Asian countries just to attend. I kid you not!
Here's the link: http://www.iss.edu/edustaff/irc.html
They haven't published the list of participating schools yet, but I know for sure that following schools are going to be there:
Bangkok Patana School
International Community School
International School Bangkok
Kesinee International School
New International School of Thailand
Redeemer International School Thailand
Ruamrudee International School
St. Andrews International School
St. Stephen's International School
American Pacific International School
Chiang Mai International School
Lanna International School Thailand
International School Eastern Seaboard
Dulwich International College
QSI International School of Phuket |
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