Rome and TESOL

This is the year of "The Great Hail Storm" [Perth WA] and "The Icelandic Volcano" that brought air traffic to a halt. I should have flown directly to UK but after two weeks of 'hanging around' we were able to get two seats to Rome. Well its sort of in the right direction for reaching UK....isnt it? Time prevented doing much in Rome but we did break our trip and re-establish some old contacts.
Tip for those on the spot, International Houses training centre, Accademia Britannica, Viale Manzoni 22 has a good notice board with job adverts, so also does Ned kelly's pub near Palazzo Valdassini and Miscellania close to the Pantheon.

We get a number of enquiries about work in Europe each week and Italy is certainly on the list of those countries in Western Europe that people ask about. In our data base, which we make available to all of our enroled students, we have 46 addresses, email and phone contacts for individual schools as well as chains of schools in Italy. I have no problem with offering some general information though. There are hundreds of schools both large and small in this country and at the same time there are no shortage of would be teachers. I am told that too often they are inexperienced and lack any serious training.They may have a piece of paper but its leverage is related to the depth of training that it represents. What many persons dont know when they go looking for training is that the defacto international bench mark for a TESOL Certificate is 120 hours of accredited training. Yes that's correct 120! Anything less and you may well be wasting your money.