Pros
Low professional knowledge is needed, prescriptive teaching materials and programme mean that you need no preparation — the management expects you to carry out robotic orders. Good for people who want to be lazy teacher: students use computer to learn, teachers are not expected to disseminate knowledge more than three minutes. Free lunch at office: you need to start at 12pm It is easy to be employed: ask for the highest salary. Most professional and responsible teachers are fired shortly before the end of probation because it does not fit their business model to employ teachers who cannot cope with unprofessional teaching attitudes.
Cons
Unprofessional training: Since you are not expected to responsible for the weak students, you are also discouraged from disseminate knowledge, you will soon lose your precious teaching skills and find your knowledge is not respected. You will get stuck in this work place without hope to work at any better educational institute. Low salary, long working hours, six-day work week, seven-day annual leave Unfairness: the old staff can be late for work and lazy at work, the new staff have to be on time, being ordered around by the old staff who have low professional knowledge (Especially English and Literature). Unhealthy and environmentally unfriendly lunch: the lunch is free but it’s unhealthy, compulsorily at the boring suffocating office, you will have to waste a lot of plastic Abnormal rivalry: a colleague putting bikini picture or other revealing picture as her profile pic can be late to work, lazy at teaching with low professional knowledge in the subject. And she is given the ‘power’ to order the junior staff around. The management encourages her to undermine your teaching in front of the students, the management does this to any new staff. The management encourages regurgitation and spoon-feeding. You are discouraged from teaching and inspiring. The management also makes the old staff take credit of your hard work in the name of teamwork.
