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[joem]

Thanks for giving us this invaluable service. As we all know, it is the teachers' trust,compassion, and caring that often allow others to try to rip us off. Very sad.

I have taught English, Public Speaking, (and a course to prepare beginning
English speakers) in California for 25 years at every grade level from
kindergarten to college . I possess a Masters Degree in English Education,
and three California teaching credentials.
I am 56 years old, caucasian (I mention this only because I have read of rampant discrimination out there), and am available to move to Thailand after June 27, 2005.
I want to teach either at the college or high school level.
I need any and all advice on the best way to do this.
Thanks,
Joe

[tedkarma]

With your experience and credentials there is only one reasonable way to go: international schools. Look up ISS in the States - and through their recruitment process you can probably find a semi-comparable deal to what you have now - in Thailand (considering very low taxes, free housing, airplane ticket, etc.). Your age might be a factor for the international schools - I don't really know. Otherwise, you would have no difficulty finding a teaching position at a university in Thailand - but the wages would be a fraction of that of a real international school.

Be sure to ignore all the psuedo-international schools in Thailand - or you will be working for peanuts.