Hi, I just want to ask if Public Schools here in Taiwan can hire Walk In applicants? I’m planning to apply for an English Teacher position. I’m a Taiwan passport holder with Taiwan area resident certificate.
Why are you walking in? Have you contacted any recruiters? Is English your first language? Where are you from? Where do you want to do this in Taiwan?
Do you have another passport? If not you cannot work without a Taiwan teachers license.
This isn’t really correct. You can’t work ‘full time’ or monthly salary without a teaching licence.
You can work hourly at public schools without any qualifications but with open work rights.
Not many schools do it though, you have to ring around and by luck speak to the right person. I used to do a 2 month gig twice a year at a public school, 20 hours a week. They would fit the schedule around my buxiban job too. It was the best job I ever had in Taiwan
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Out of curiosity, what did the pay look like for that? (Just curious. 20 classes/week is the standard for an FET contract but you need to be at the school from 8-5.)
If you are from an English-speaking country (hold a passport from an English-speaking country) and have a teaching license from that country, you can be directly hired by a school (though many people apply to the MOE’s TFETP program or through a recruiter). That being said, unless their current foreign teacher left, it’s unlikely they have the finances to hire you. Typically, public schools apply for money for an FET in Jan-March for the following school year.
If you’re Taiwanese only and don’t have a teaching license, you can still get hired by some schools if there’s a need, but you’re looking at sub pay, which is NT$336/hr.
From memory it was $1000NT per 45min class but they paid each class as an hour
20 classes a week approximately
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That’s a very not bad gig! In the past I know they’d do maybe 600/hr but pay for more than the hour taught and such. If you’re not stuck with sitting at a desk and forbidden from taking on other work outside the school, that’s quite solid
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If you get out of the cities it’s much better!
This was in Miaoli國
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It’s only a short term gig. Just like the ones I got for NT$2000 an hour twenty years ago to teach business English to government run hotels.
I’m looking for an easier way to apply for an English teacher job since I’m already here in Taiwan. I already sent my applications through teach taiwan and tfetp but still no reply. I also have a Philippine passport and already have a teaching license. Currently, I’m living in New Taipei
Yes, I also have a Philippine Passport and have a teaching license
Yes I have dual passports (Philippines&Taiwan) and I already have a teaching license from the Philippines
Hi, I have a teaching license from the Philippines. So is it possible that I can do walk in in public schools here?
Have you already renounced and resumed your Philippine passport? Or you don’t need to renounce?
The process takes nearly over a year to renounce and resume a Philippine passport so it is best to wait until after that to apply for a foreign teacher job at a public school
Uhm, I don’t need to renounce my Philippine passport since my mom is both Filipino/Taiwanese citizen also. I’m using both passports when I’m travelling to Philippines and Taiwan
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You might want to rethink teaching in the public schools. I’ve worked there and its not much better than working at a buxiban. You can certainly walk into buxibans and talk to them but it does seem a little desperate 
If you have a license, the pay and benefits are significantly better than what you can get at any cram school.
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It’s possible but most schools are already hired for this school year. Any job you get now is going to be at a school that had a teacher leave for some reason
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Hello @nz, thank you very much for the insight and sorry for jumping in but I wanted to mention that I have been in touch with TFETP, and they have confirmed that the teaching licence does not have to be issued by the same country as the passport. More specifically, I asked if I could apply as a holder of both a British passport and a US teaching licence and they confirmed that my application would not be rejected on the ground that passport and licence were issued by two separate countries. I hope that this helps 
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