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[Gooch]

Hello,
I've managed to complete 2 of the 8 required courses for the TESOL Cert
at U of T. But I've put it hold for now, while I get more info.

Just how difficult is it to find work in Toronto (I'm specifically talking about
teaching immigrants, not international students) ? Is the market really
flooded? I've also heard that teaching LINC can be lonely, and there can
be a lack of resources at off-site locations. Is this true? What about
TDSB classes - what are they like?

Thanks.

[ls650]

Immigrants are strongly motivated, but they usually have long work hours and low pay, so they don't have much free time for classes and they don't have money to pay you.

There are also a lot of volunteers working through immigration centers to help them learn English, so it's pretty difficult to find paying work.

[Symphany]

There are jobs out there, but most of them require TESOL certification if you work with any kind of publicly-funded group. The college I studied at had a TESOL option, but I gave up to pursue the TEFL because my interest was (and is) primarily in teaching abroad. Here are a two websites that advertise jobs open in the non-profit sector:

This is a link from settlement.org

http://www.theconstellation.ca/settlement.org/jobs.shtml

The other is Charity Village

http://www.charityvillage.com/cv/main.asp

[ddeubel]

Gooch,

I taught a number of years for TDSB. You'll need to break in through supply teaching and also for ESL, need your AQ course.

I also taught LINC quite a few years. You are dead on that most places have a real dearth of resources. I also used to use the great resources of (ahhh forget the name, been a number of years) the center for deaf teaching. Their resources ALPHA (that's it, they are on Yonge, south of Eglinton) are excellent. But unfortunately, you can now only photocopy there (I believe, it might have changed).

Let others in TESOL know about our international EFL community at the link below. Always looking for commited teachers.

DD