Living in Thailand |
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson |
Living in Thailand |
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson |
I am going to keep this post short because I am super busy with preplanning, but lots of folks have been asking me about my new school. I am teaching 6th grade at Thai International School (TIS) in Pathum Thani, Thailand (you can follow the school on Facebook). Here’s the scoop…TIS is a small private school that opened in 2017. TIS has very nice facilities. There are two swimming pools, brand new tennis & basketball courts, a soccer field & track, a lake (with swans, ducks and peacocks), several 100 gallon aquariums, a pier & rice paddy, at least two chicken coops (tons of chickens), two bison, two cows, a frog habitat, and vegetable gardens….It’s really quite impressive. I am teaching four segments, each segment is 50 minutes and I have three segments of planning time each day. It’s an American curriculum (CCSS) with an emphasis on student-centered teaching. As such, I am currently learning a great deal about Phenomenon Based Learning. My fantastic colleagues include a Canadian teacher, an Irish teacher, a Scottish teacher, three US teachers (1 from OH, 2 from CO), three South African teachers, two Chinese teachers, and six Thai teachers. The owner of the school is a formally trained chef, who owns several restaurants. The school’s cook is also a restaurant chef (the food is amazing!) and teachers eat free. TIS has several teachers that have been here multiple years. School starts August 3rd and I can’t wait to meet my students!
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Liz
7/19/2023 08:14:45 am
Wow!! This school sounds like paradise! It has all of things I love in life! Great food, a bunch of animals, a farm, and what sounds like a great staff. I’ll have to Google Phenomenon Based learning. Sounds so interesting!
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