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Excellent Institute

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Quality is promoted but not valued, very unfortunate - Teacher Excellent Institute Employee Review

3.0
Jul 16, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The Company uses Classin and updates the schedule for you which is very convenient The Company provides all the materials/lesson plans for their lessons which are diverse and fairly well designed The Company provides flexible hours and rescheduling It is fairly easy to communicate with management for support or questions, I do believe they try work hard and try to support their teachers (just not financially)

Cons

-Low pay for work/expectations: here is the big one, you are only paid for in class hours taught. No value is placed on anything outside of class time, however you are still expected to plan, prepare, review homework, and look over materials for next class on your OWN time. -No transparency in business practice, I've taught many classes now for this company, group and individual and I have no Idea how much parents are paying for this program. -This is more a problem of the industry then this company but whenever working with kids, especially ones from highly academically focused countries like China, know that the parents will have very high expectations and will not hesitate to complain to your management frequently regardless of how well you've been trained and are being compensated. - thick skin recommended.

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4.0
Nov 25, 2025
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CEO approval
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Pros

A solid 20 hours a week. Often more

Cons

Sometimes parents complain or ask to switch teachers for reasons that are not reasonable. Nothing anyone can do.

3.0
Feb 22, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is good, software is user friendly, lessons are pre-made.

Cons

Here we go: -It is a business so the principle of "the customer is always right" applies. I get it because without bending and twisting for parents/students will result in no revenue. In my experience, students who do not do their homework or in class work (or just want to get out of the program altogether) will just throw the teacher under the bus. Ask for another teacher for example is common place. -Teachers are expected to do a "level-up evaluation" at the end a program a student is finished. Not only that, but the teacher is also required to do this evaluation 2 weeks before the end of the intial program without any notice or alert. If you have several students it is taxing to remember when each one is approaching that 2 week mark. -paid for 60 minutes (50 minutes of instructional time and 10 minutes for administrative work which is enough time to post homework. However, there is no compensated time for correcting homework or reviewing future lessons yet all of this is expected. -Parents hover during lessons (they try to hide but watching students being distracted, looking around the room makes it obvious but I make it a point to call it out by saying point blank "Who are you looking at? Perhaps we should wait to continue when they leave or aren't being a distraction) and are quick to judge. Expectations are way beyond pay scale.

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