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I did some work at Dr. Paul's through another agency, and am now midway through an exclusive contract with them and I noticed that noone has reviewed them online yet, so I thought I'd get the ball rolling.

Dr. Paul's is, overall, a very good school. The students and administrators are all overseas Koreans. We're on a first-name basis with the administrators, who are kind and honest. It's a small school located on the eigth floor of a building in a small, predominantly Korean business/residential complex in downtown Qingdao. The classes are small and personal, and we usually teach given sets of courses for 8-16 week periods. The students range from seven to eighteen years old and are mostly pretty great, though a few are a little spoiled. Because of the small class sizes, though, the "bad eggs" aren't too hard to keep under control. The pay is great, and so are the hours. We are asked to do our class preparation inside the school to keep up the appearance of a busy foreign staff for the sake of interested parents, which is fair enough since we get paid handsomely for the time.
The living arrangements are tops, as is the city, and the pay. The students are pretty great and though we are asked to meet progress goals in books, we can always put aside some class time to use teaching ideas of our own.

Additionally, we sometimes get to teach the more advanced students from novels, if we express interest in the novel classes to the administrators. I recently completed a "Last of the Mohicans" course, and a colleague of mine did "Robinson Crusoe."