Great Work Place - Afterschool Teacher Harmony Tree Learning Center Employee Review

While I was working on my undergrad I decided to switch to the education field and I started working here to get some experience. I got to work on my classroom management skills and got lots of experience teaching in a classroom environment. This was also a good way to decide whether you actually like teaching. The kids here are much easier to handle compared to the public schools so it'll give you a chance to build your confidence handling a classroom. Great way to practice lesson planning. It won't be as intense as the lesson planning I learned in the teaching credential program but the management will teach that if you don't know how. My co-workers were really friendly. And even though I don't work there anymore, I'm still really good friends with a lot of the people I met there. Management really cares about people and the kids. They listened to feedback and the atmosphere was warm and familial. We went to dinner together a lot and also even went on some bonding trips to Vegas and on a cruise. It really brought the entire staff together. At the same time, I did stay after work and made the effort to get to know people. If you leave promptly at 6, then there isn't much opportunity to chat with others.

If unlucky, could get a student that's hard to handle but that'll test how great your management skills are. You have to pickup students for after school but not during summer camp. No big deal since the kids enjoy getting to know you some times. But you do get reimbursed for gas.

they were able to schedule me around my school hours was accommodating when wasn't able to work certain days everyone was pretty friendly and easy to get along with snacks were provided everyday and lunch was provided on thursday most of the kids were pretty well behaved and was fun to work with some of the teachers knew which kids were difficult to work with so they would only ask you to help the kids who were well behaved while they took care of the difficult kids kids were allowed to play video games on fridays so if you were assigned to watch that area you were sorta paid to play games with kids

there were a few kids who were hard to deal with and some teachers would always send them out of the classroom so the TAs would have to deal with them not much time to get to know other staff members except on thursday when the kids have their lunch time didn't really know what was allowed or not allowed, sometimes kids would be running around and no one really did anything while other times certain staff members would not allow it sometimes kids would be laying on floor or crawling around on the floor and certain staff would tell them to get up while other staff members allowed it. not much feedback, never knew if there was anything i could have improved on or if i was doing anything wrong