Pros
The salary is a little higher for licensed K-12 educators.
Cons
Americans don’t stay longer than they have to. They leave as soon as they see what is happening here. You are unable to transfer money out of the country and you are unable to get US dollars or any other currency. A Chinese citizen must get dollars for you or transfer money out of the country. You are used as an American teaching Demo classes and teaching middle school. They just want parents to pay high fees, 10,000 USD, and their program is deficient in so many ways. It’s all about sales. They want you to teach from scripts that are pieced together lesson plans from ESL books that aren’t coherent in any way, they’re not educationally meaningful and far too difficult for the kids. Students are 2 to 4 grade levels behind. Their staff is too young and immature. No one has a background in education, they are very controlling and disorganized. Management’s and staff’s English skills are intermediate at best. One of the worst aspects of working here is they want you to teach them everything you know, and then you are useless to them. They treat you with contempt, you are sidelined and they’re so disrespectful. Another aspect that is troubling is the copyright infringement. They download copyrighted materials and disseminate them. You are called a foreign teacher. You don’t have a name. They’re xenophobic. They’re racist. There is no insurance and no benefits. This is one of the worst, unprofessional and disrespectful companies I have worked for. The Chinese have poor manners, no integrity or honor, and they’re despicable. STAY AWAY!