The Teacher Council Thailand has created a 20-hour Thai Culture, Language and Ethics course which has become a requirement for all Western teachers wanting to get a Thai teaching license. Without a teaching license there is no work permit. So why is this course necessary?
Thai culture course for a Thai teaching license
The 20 hour Thai Culture and Ethics course had been developed in response to the overwhelming number of requests the Teacher Council Thailand had received from Thai government schools pertaining to Westerners who were simply not knowledgeable enough in the more subtle yet important cultural differences between East and West. The purpose of this course is to reduce friction among teachers and enable all Western teachers to better understand the cultural differences, some of which are substantial.