TFETP Teaching Assistant - Your Experience?

From the TFETP website: "Foreign English teaching assistants work under the guidance of Taiwanese teachers to create a positive, diverse, and immersive English learning environment that encourages proactive English learning amongst students, thus raising overall English ability. The main job duties for foreign English teaching assistants are listed below:

1. Service hours are 5 days a week, 8 hours a day.
2. Assist Taiwanese teachers during class up to 20 periods a week.
3. Assist in various school activities, presentations, exhibitions, performances, and projects. Create a rich immersive English learning environment via diverse approaches to enhance student’s overall English ability, learning interests, and confidence.
4. Participate in English teaching meetings, professional development activities, extracurricular activities, competitions, exhibitions, performances, and other related projects.
5. Prepare lessons with colleagues or independently, including writing lesson plans, preparing teaching materials, grading assignments, and assessing evaluations.
6. Accept assignments from the school to participate in English teaching professional development activities, competitions, exhibitions, performances, and other related affairs organized by the government. "

I am trying to research this position with TFETP but am coming up emptyhanded. I’ve seen people mention that it’s basically the same as being a Foreign English Teacher, with the same responsibilities and hours but with a significant paycut.
Has anybody worked as an Assistant and can share their experience? Or know somebody who has? I am interested in being an Assistant if the responsibilities are lower than the Teacher position.

I’m a teacher in the TFETP program. It is as you have mentioned - you are given the same responsibilities and expectations as a regular teacher, but you are paid far less. The carrot that gets dangled before you is that if you can do the job and complete a set of studies, then you could qualify for regular teacher pay. That said, the qualification would not suffice anywhere else in the world, so you would only be able to use it in Taiwan. It’s a waste of a year in my opinion and I strongly suspect that there will be project cuts coming down the line (after the next election). I don’t think there’s too much job security in any career in Taiwan.