Vantaggi
You get a visa, decent pay, health insurance, pension and transportation costs covered. There’s training and different resources available to ask for support.
Svantaggi
Their expectations are extremely high. There aren’t any breaks for teachers in between classes because we’re expected to do a million tasks during those “breaks”. We’ve been requested to “try not to use the restroom when there are a lot of parents in the lobby”. There isn’t enough time to thoroughly do all of the tasks assigned. It’s not just a “teaching job”, it’s also a customer service and marketing and promotion and cleaning job. My manager would rather I spend an hour putting promotional flyers in people’s mailboxes than actually prepare a lesson. They don’t care about the quality of the lessons as long as they can get 2-3 new students to sign up every month. The teachers are understaffed and underpaid.