hoops

Just a quickie thinking of getting into TEFL teaching when we get to oz, cos i`ll get school holidays off with the kids and we wont have to pay for someone to look after them,

does anybody know weather TEFL teachers are sort after out there, for anybody who doesnt know it stands for "teaching english as a foreign langauge"

Hoops (Mrs)

jad n rich

I think its been discussed before, most people who study it here do so to work in japan or asia, where in OZ are you planning to go, many parts would have no call for it at all, might be jobs in melbourne or sydney? they seem to attract the more ethnic immigrants. Does australia not require them to speak english tho? I dont know the answer to that might be the key to how much work there would be tho.

ali south

have to say teaching with fully qualified status is proving to be a challenge!
let alone TEFL
Tara

Insomniac

That's *whether and *sought, as well as two missing apostrophes (won't and doesn't), a colon (after "quickie"), a capitalised "Oz" and "Does", cos being "'cause" or at worst, "'cos", and a question mark at the end of your final sentence.

Don't tell me, you knew all that but were in a hurry, so couldn't be bothered to write it properly. Would you accept that from your TEFL students?

TheCrone

Yes, I teach it on a part-time, voluntary, one-to-one basis, through an organisation called ReadWriteNow.
All Tecnhical and Further Education colleges in WA have courses, using the IELTS system and anyone teaching it requires at least a Dip.Ed.
Hope this helps.

hoops

actaully it was steve hoops that wrote it cos hoops (Mrs) couldn`t be bothered, to do it

steve

hoops

Thanks to everyone for their reply - I think I need to look at this further before I decide what to do.

Hoops (Mrs)

Vash the Stampede

It's pretty big in Australia, where it's called ESL (English as a Second Language.)

I don't know about specific levels of demand, but you should be fine; it's the sort of thing that Adult Ed colleges are always looking for.

hoops

Thanks again

Hoops (mrs)