Kid’s College – Yeonhee: Yeonhee-dong, Seoul

Agreed this school always made if difficult for me to ever feel that I was doing a good job. Moral was always low, management showed a visible dislike for teachers. I loved teaching but hated the management. They really create a divide between the Korean staff and the foreign staff. Aside from the location I would never suggest that someone work here. There have been many that have not finished their contract because of losing students, which as you will learn is not entirely the teacher’s fault.

Location, nice. Owners, really not nice.
There are a lucky few teachers who have had a really great experience and finished the contract happily. However, there are about 3 times more teachers who did not finish or did and suffered through the whole time. For most of us, the bosses made us feel like we were bad teachers and didn’t deserve to be at the school. I would not recommend working here unless you know that you are willing to put in a lot of effort. Excessive effort is the only thing that the bosses will like you for. I have a very different experience at my current job! The owner actually appreciates the teachers, and gives us positive feedback constantly. Better jobs exist!

I taught at Kid’s college for 6 months and was fired. I started in July just after graduating college that May. I didn’t have any experience teaching and the school knew that! I was hired as the teacher for the third year kindergarten class. The teacher before me was supposedly bad, other foreign teachers said he just showed up and gave the kids coloring sheets. Anyway I went into the class and I watched other tteachers and tried to replicate their methods. I did my best. I stayed late 2-3 nights a week to do the lesson plans . I skipped my lunch many times to make copies! Around early september I was told I needed to change my teaching methods. The boss came in and told me what to change. I made the changes. Then in early October I was placed on probabtion. To me probation is necessary if you aren’t doing what the boss said. BUt I had made changes. In fact the other foreign teachers told me they could tell I had made the changes that had been suggested. After the probation I was told I had two weeks to make more changes,,,which were mostly the ones I had already made! Then exactly one week later, not two like I was told, I was fired. But they were nice enough to give me two weeks notice. They did give me a letter to get another job. Apparently to them I wasn’t a good kinder teacher! But my second school loved me! anway it does have a nice location adn the apartment I had was nice but the school isn’t good!