Teachers at small schools spend hundreds of hours a term on reports, PR and coordination
An Equitable Education Fund study found small-school teachers teach 27.31 hours a week, 37.6% above the Ministry standard; 47.7% say workload lowers teaching quality and 63% say work-life balance is badly broken. Extra duties include grade coordination (874 hours a semester), academic affairs (777) and public relations (468). Schools lack admin, PR and finance staff.
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Camera and vision
Score Sheet Reader: photograph a handwritten gradebook and fill the report form
The teacher photographs the handwritten class gradebook. Claude vision reads the names and scores, totals them and fills the official grade report form. The 874 hours a semester spent on grade coordination shrink because the handwriting stays and the copying goes.
Build with Claude vision, Next.js, official grade form PDF template, Google Sheets
Voice and phone
Duty Diary: speak what you did today and the app tallies hours by duty type
At the end of the day the teacher says 'two hours on the grade sheet, 40 minutes on the Facebook post, one hour with the district office'. The app sorts the minutes into coordination, academic and PR, and the weekly total prints on one page. The teacher stops losing evidence of hidden work.
Build with Whisper Thai, Claude extraction, Google Sheets, PDF summary
AI agent
Event Post Agent: three event photos become the post, the notice and the album
The teacher takes three photos at a sports day or a visit. The agent writes the Facebook post, a printed notice for the parents' board and a short album page in Thai, each in the school's tone. Public relations work that took 468 hours a term takes two minutes.
Build with Claude vision, Claude writing, Next.js, A4 print, Facebook Graph API optional
Automation and APIs
Tear-Off Notice: a parent letter with a tick slip that gets photographed and tallied
The teacher speaks the message and the system prints a letter for parents with a tear-off slip: yes, no or need help. Slips come back with the kids, and the teacher photographs the pile. Claude reads the ticks and the reply tally is on the page in a minute.
Build with Whisper Thai, Claude writing and vision, PDF form with slip, Google Sheets
Web portal
Skills Board: parents and neighbors pick up the non-teaching jobs they can do
A QR poster at the school gate opens a short list of jobs: 'draw a poster', 'do the monthly accounts', 'fix the Facebook page'. A parent with the skill picks one, and the teacher sees who is doing what. Schools without admin, PR or finance staff borrow them from the village.
Build with Next.js, Supabase, QR poster, simple task assignment
What people reported
EEF, 13 Jul 2026: teaching hours, extra-duty hours per semester, workload survey
en.eef.or.th