The People’s Party took the opportunity of Teacher’s Day to hold an event in front of the Teachers’ Council, promoting the policy “Return Time to Teachers, Return Teachers to Classrooms.” Parit emphasized three principles: reducing administrative work, targeted skill development, and promoting career advancement in teaching.
On 16 Jan 2026 GMT+7, Parit Watcharasindhu, along with People’s Party candidates in the education sector such as Teerasak Jiratrachoo, Promet Sirirat, Prin Jirapattrasilp, Tamahathai Chanaburanasak, and Sommeth Yuwasut, gathered near the Teachers’ Council to mark National Teacher’s Day by conducting surveys of teachers’ opinions and campaigning for the party’s policies aimed at supporting and promoting teachers in their work.
Parit stated that the People’s Party’s key principles in supporting teachers focus on three areas: returning time to teachers, developing skills precisely, and promoting career advancement aligned with student development. The first principle, “returning time to teachers,” aims to give teachers back to the classroom by reducing their workload unrelated to teaching, such as administrative tasks or activities that add burdens without maximizing benefits to students.
Any projects, rituals, or activities that do not benefit students should be reduced or discontinued. If a project is beneficial, it should be offered as a “menu” from which teachers and schools can choose whether to participate, considering the context of each school.
Parit further explained that the People’s Party plans to increase the budget to hire administrative staff to lighten teachers’ workloads. Remaining administrative tasks will be streamlined through revised regulations and laws to enable faster processing, including acceptance of digital signatures and digital official documents.
Regarding the second principle, targeted skill development, Parit said the party intends to improve teachers’ skills. With a new competency-based curriculum under the party’s policy, teaching methods and the skills teachers need to support student development must adapt. Teachers will shift from the traditional “front-of-class” role focused on delivering information to a “behind-the-scenes” role emphasizing analysis and support tailored to each student’s unique strengths and weaknesses.
The People’s Party will decentralize training budgets, currently concentrated centrally, giving teachers and schools the freedom to choose which skills to develop—those most beneficial for their classrooms and school contexts.
The final principle concerns career advancement aligned with student development. Parit explained that teachers who are better able to support and develop their students should receive commensurate career progress. This will be achieved by designing an evaluation system linked to teaching effectiveness and student outcomes, featuring continuous development cycles based in schools, alongside 360-degree evaluations that allow students to assess teachers and teachers to assess principals.
. Parit concluded, “Education is meaningful only when teachers have time to spend with students, and education is joyful when students enjoy learning and teachers find happiness in their work.”