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alanito
Joined: 23 Mar 2007
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Location: Boston
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 Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:53 am Post subject: How are prospects? have TEFL, Univ Degree, Ital Passport, .. |
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I am an Ital citizen through parents, though haven't lived in Italy. I have a TEFL, univ degree, a very diverse business background, and speak some italian.
Do I have a good prospect of getting a public school job teaching English? Which I assume pays more from what I understand....
In general, do I have an advantage over Italians who don't speak English as mother tongue, who are seeking to teach English in the schools? |
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ilaria
Joined: 26 Jan 2007
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Location: Sicily
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Alanito, you don't mention if you have experience teaching young learners or working with children, or if your degree is education-related.
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Do I have a good prospect of getting a public school job teaching English? Which I assume pays more from what I understand....
In general, do I have an advantage over Italians who don't speak English as mother tongue, who are seeking to teach English in the schools? |
In a word: no. Your prospects are not good. Unless you have a degree in English and teaching qualifications from an Italian university. Or you have a foreign qualification that entitles you to teach EFL in a state school in your own country, AND you can convince some Italian bureaucrat that this is fully equivalent to an Italian qualification.
If you do get a job teaching English in a state school here, you'd be taken on as an 'English expert' and you'd work alongside an Italian teacher of English. Although these positions aren't that lucrative, the money would be enough to live on and the hours are good (usually mornings only).
However, 'English expert' positions are getting rare because state schools are increasingly contracting with local private language schools to provide native speaker teachers. The private language school then takes most of the money and gives the teacher their normal hourly wage, while insisting that the teacher also come back and do evening classes on-site. (This is what my language school does and I don't like it, but can't change it.)
Because state schools are overseen by, well, the state, entry to positions is by 'concorso' or open competition. Individual schools will set the bar as high or as low as they like, and often, despite the 'concorso', jobs go to personal friends and contacts of the person in charge of hiring. Not necessarily a bad thing, if you are that friend!
Finally, you say you speak 'some' Italian. Improve your language skills to 'fluent' and state schools will be much happier about hiring you. They want a colleague who they can communicate with easily. |
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