Thread: Returning after 6 years...

Hello Teakdoor teacher people.

So...I came back the the US after teaching in Thailand (2005-2011) and taught full-time at language schools, immigrant programs, etc. while completing a great MA TESOL program. Became a CELTA tutor, started presenting at conferences, got more professionally involved. I haven't been published academically though, regretfully. But things have been pretty good, even if you only scratch by doing this stuff around here (well, most places). I really enjoy the work.

I'll be due back in the Kingdom by late January 2018 and have a few warm irons work-wise but nothing lined up yet. I'm open to all kinds of situations, but I hope to be able to find a university position or something in teacher education/training. There are a few CELTAs here and there, of course. There's the BC's RETC/Boot-Camp programs for Thai teachers. That's all on my radar.

I'm just doing everything I can do to network and keep my eyes and ears open. Even a lame post like this one on Teakdoor...nothing is beneath me.

I'll be doing some teacher training in S. Korea November-January. Just hoping I don't get blown up in the battle-of-the-tiny-dicks and make it back to the land of sun and smiles.

So, a request: if you or someone/somewhere you know will be looking for a professional and Thailand-tested teacher to employ as an instructor, curriculum developer, trainer (the helpful type, not the obnoxious type), or other...let me know! Help a brutha out.

I know this isn't a forum full of teachers or anything...but I plan to be at the 2018 ThaiTESOL conference in CM in late January. Anybody else?

Cheers all. It's a trip to be back on a Thai forum...been kicking around these things since fuckin 2005.