Thai private and public schools in downtown and suburban Bangkok, the vibrant, interesting yet hectic and polluted capital city of Thailand, are always looking for certified US teachers. Due to the extreme shortage of qualified foreign teachers, recruiting agencies have been luring backpackers and globetrotters who fit the Thai image of a foreign teacher (preferably fair skinned and native English speaker) to teach in Thai schools in this capital. Untrained individuals can not generally handle up to 50 ill-behaved children with next to no English skills in a classroom, so the turnover of foreign teachers has been great, exacerbating the problem of student discipline and interrupted learning.  Schools are generally not open or interested in any of your improvement ideas, and since you will earn more than a Thai teacher of 30 years, you will be more on your own than in option 1 and 2 (aside from our presence in Bangkok). An interesting and life changing experience in that you can live in a city that is going through economic and political change, trying to cope with Western excess and cultural influence, while struggling to maintain its own cultural values.