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- Good morning from Chiang Mai, Thailand.
My name is Summer and I'm gonna
be doing the Instagram story takeover today.
This is my boyfriend Brandon and we moved
to Thailand together and are both English teachers here.
Brandon and I both teach English at a private Thai school.
We're currently standing on top of our apartment building
and from our building, we can see the school
that we teach at.
So we've been in Thailand for eight months already.
We both took the online TEFL course
while we were in the United States.
Brandon was in grad school and I was working full time
and then we applied directly to our school online
before moving to Thailand.
We were both fortunate enough to get hired
by the same school and it definitely felt good coming
over here with a job lined up.
However, a lot of our coworkers moved over here
and applied in person and that also could work in Thailand.
So I did not have prior teaching experience.
I was actually a biologist before I moved to Thailand
and my school only required that you had a Bachelors
and a TEFL was a preferred qualification.
So the curriculum question is tricky
because it depends on the age level that you're teaching.
I teach Kindergarten and I really don't have a curriculum,
which gives me all the freedom to teach the kids
what I feel like is important.
I teach what in Thailand is called Aniban 1,
which translates to Kindergarten 1,
but it's not the Kindergarten that we would know.
The kids are three and four years old.
I really enjoy teaching this age level,
as the kids are really easy to get excited
and it's a lot of playing games and activities
and I see so much improvement every single week
with their English ability.
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So the way my school works is my Kindergarten students
are in their Thai class throughout the day
and then they come up to my English class
for 30 minute periods.
When I'm not teaching, it's my own free time.
So, I can prep for my next class,
organize my classroom, go get food,
I just need to be here for those teaching periods.
Good morning class!
- [All] Good morning teacher Summer!
- [Summer] Are you ready?
- [All] Ready!
- So it's 1 o'clock here.
My students nap everyday from 12 to 2,
which gives me a pretty long lunch break.
I'm working on lesson plans right now
and then my next class comes at 2 o'clock.
So we got back from playing badminton,
got cleaned up and I'm gonna use this time
to show you our apartment
and then we're gonna go grab some dinner.
We live in a studio, so it's gonna be a quick tour,
but I'll show you guys around.
Here's our kitchen.
Jumps right into the living room and the bedroom.
There's Brandon, he just taught a class online.
So we're gonna eat dinner at a market
that's walking distance from our house
and Thailand is extremely bad about their plastic usage,
so we always bring our own bowls and mugs for our dinner.
Made it to the market.
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Goodnight everyone!
Thank you so much for watching today.
If you have any other questions
or you wanna see more about teaching English in Thailand,
follow our private account.
Bye!
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