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[PBRstreetgang21]

Im looking into teaching adults for the coming year, what does anyone know about YBM, Pagoda or Wall street Institute? Are these good companies to work for? Split shifts?

any recommendations from anyone if I want to teach adults?

[postfundie]

there are plenty of threads about these places on here already. I've worked at two of the places you mentioned. Be prepared for split shifts since you are first starting out. Adults are quite demanding and rightly so as they don't want to waste their time and money. My advice is to keep pumping them full of usefull vocab (AT LEAST 10 new words per class ..) also the 5 w's and 1 h should be drilled into their brains to keep them speaking and to keep your Teacher Talk Time down...

[ChinaBoy]

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[WoBW]

I worked at the Gangnam Pagoda a few years ago. I liked it. As there were so many teachers there with a pretty even split of preferences for working early or late, I never had to do an extreme split shift. My worst was my first month when I taught 7 50-minute classes between 10am and 10pm. But, I also worked at another place where I started at 6:40am and finished at 10pm. That is a whole different ball game.

At Pagoda, many of the teachers who'd been there a while were working 2pm to 10pm, so not unlike the hours at a kids hagwon. As another poster said, adults can be demanding. The complaint I got was that I wasn't doing enough correction - so watch out for that but without making them feel foolish.

I found the books to be very good for the general conversation classes, although not for the more academic PIP (boring books for that type of class). Back to the conversation book, I thought they contained useful language and really did facilitate speaking. In a typical 50 minute lesson, I would spend maybe 15-20 minutes introducing the new vocabulary/grammar/lexis and then for the rest of the class it was really the students working in pairs/groups with me just going around listening. Then at the end I would highlight any common problems I had observed and generally give feedback.

I have heard some people did not like working at Pagoda, but for me it it was a good experience.

[fancypants]

I worked at WSI a few years back and I would highly recommend it. At that time, no split shifts were required, but that could have changed.

[jadefrog]

I can recommend working for YBM. Lots of opportunities for overtime (not forced) and a good place to cut your teeth.

[matthews_world]

I never see WSI hiring on Dave's job site.

Anybody got their website?

[cdninkorea]

I can't comment on other adult schools as I haven't worked at them, but I can tell you Wall Street Institute is a great place to work.
No job is perfect, but it would take me one hand to count the major gripes I have about the job and a dozen hands to count what I like about it.
Oh, no split shifts. Ever. PM me if you have other specific questions.

[spliff]

You left out...BCM...