WHO ARE WE?
ITA TESOL is an amazing team of highly qualified and motivated TESOL trainers providing high quality interactive TESOL courses. We are a not-for-profit organisation committed to keeping course costs low and investing into ESL ministries and resources worldwide.
ITA TESOL works in collaboration with a Registered Training Organisations (RTO):
Intercultural Training Associates was established in 2001 by Dr Dorothy and Rev George Mathieson in order to develop an Australian government accredited Certificate in Teaching Conversational English. Directors Kim Hood and Juanita Anderson developed ITA TESOL, and trained and equipped an amazing team to deliver courses in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Intercultural Training Associates then became a not-for-profit organisation, known as Intercultural Training Australia in 2011.
Maureen Face (Director of Studies) joined the ITA team in 2015. In fifteen short years, ITA TESOL has trained hundreds of ESL/EFL teachers.
The high quality Certificate IV in Teaching Conversational English (TESOL) was accredited in 2002 and reaccredited in 2007, 2012 and 2017 with code numbers 30219QLD, 30664QLD, 30987QLD, and 10632NAT respectively.
With a highly experienced team of TESOL trainers and administrative staff, ITA TESOL is still providing the highest level of TESOL training in Australia, Thailand, Cambodia and the USA.
ITA TESOL works in collaboration with a Registered Training Organisations (RTO):
- Australian College of Career Development (ACCD) RTO Provider No: 31980
Intercultural Training Associates was established in 2001 by Dr Dorothy and Rev George Mathieson in order to develop an Australian government accredited Certificate in Teaching Conversational English. Directors Kim Hood and Juanita Anderson developed ITA TESOL, and trained and equipped an amazing team to deliver courses in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Intercultural Training Associates then became a not-for-profit organisation, known as Intercultural Training Australia in 2011.
Maureen Face (Director of Studies) joined the ITA team in 2015. In fifteen short years, ITA TESOL has trained hundreds of ESL/EFL teachers.
The high quality Certificate IV in Teaching Conversational English (TESOL) was accredited in 2002 and reaccredited in 2007, 2012 and 2017 with code numbers 30219QLD, 30664QLD, 30987QLD, and 10632NAT respectively.
With a highly experienced team of TESOL trainers and administrative staff, ITA TESOL is still providing the highest level of TESOL training in Australia, Thailand, Cambodia and the USA.
OUR TEAM
DIRECTOR

Kim Hood
M.Ed TESOL
B.App Sc. (Hons)- Psychology
Dip Min Cross Cultural Studies
Cert IV TESOL
Cert IV Assessment & Workplace Training
Kim has extensive experience with international students. She has worked in universities and language schools in Australia and along with her husband Ashley founded English Corner - teaching English through parables and discussion. She is a vibrant and creative teacher.
TRAINERS
A team of qualified trainers with experience in both TESOL and working cross-culturally.