Vantaggi
-Pay is great compared to most of the companies out there.
-I have had few issues with problematic students while working here
Svantaggi
-Communication with the company is horrible. They have been very vague and secretive about China´s new policy, and I believe it is for fear of teachers leaving the company while we have our number of classes reduced every month.
-Since I have worked here, they tell you nothing when a student leaves your schedule: No feedback, no reason for leave, no warning of their last class. You have to actually ask where your student went.
-Parents have the last say on what level their son should be in, so I have had students who were massive out leveled by the units, and despite repeatedly asking them to make parents understand the importance of this, they seem to be very bad at doing so. At the same time, you get students that have a great level of English and their units are too easy, so you end up finishing the part of the unit in 10 minutes sometimes. Requests for changing the units often take a month or two to be answered.
- The units are maybe the worst thing I have seen in my 12 years of teaching. They are riddled with grammatically incorrect sentences, misspellings and other amateur mishaps. They are sometimes incredibly short, or too long, and sometimes things like readings or grammar sections seem to be of a different level.
-Overall, it is a mixed bag of good pay with the frustration of incompetent and uncooperative management, and the knowledge that they are conning parents with their disgraceful courseware.