Pros
- You can choose your own hours - Some students are really nice
Cons
- Inconsistent hours of working. You may be available for 6 hours a day but only get given 3 hours, all with annoying gaps of 45/60 minutes in between. - Lots of students fail to turn up to private lessons and teachers only get paid a fraction of the full hour if this happens. Students who consistently do this aren't punished and the company offers little support to teachers who experience students doing this - The pay is really low and they expect you to answer emails and spend time writing reports for each student after the lesson which is time consuming and further reduces the rate. - When you enter a group lesson you have no idea what level or topic you're teaching until you enter the classroom at the same time as the students. This means you feel pressurised and often have no idea what is coming up in the lesson. - The lesson content is also really difficult to follow when you have limited time to prepare for what you're going to teach. The target language for the lesson can only be found on one or two particular pages and there's no way that teachers can look ahead or check the teacher notes on other slides during the lesson. - They operate a bonus system based entirely on student ratings for the lessons you teach. These ratings are completely subjective and if a student doesn't like you for whatever reason, they can affect your monthly average rating with a low score which affects your chances of receiving a bonus.
