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Good community and good flexibility - Remote English Teacher Beyond English Employee Review

4.0
26 June 2023
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Pros

The company is a small team of teachers and administrators. They have good communication with their teachers (unlike many other online English teaching companies I've seen). They are looking to continue to improve and scale internationally. I felt supported as a teacher, and there was flexibility to set my own schedule.

Cons

Although the pay is decent compared to other online teaching companies, they only pay $17/hr which may not cut it long term unless you live abroad. There are no bonuses or opportunities to earn more as the years go on, and you are on a schedule with the Chilean calendar so you have to base yourself on their holidays. Other than that, I had a positive experience.

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5.0
2 Aug 2023
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Pros

Kind colleagues, helpful management, overall great experience

Cons

Payment is higher than other companies with these positions, but still is around a minimum wage for a comfortable living.

2.0
1 Mar 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Private students and public school students are wonderful, opportunity to meet and interact with lots of different people from different areas of Santiago

Cons

Like many others, I arrived to Beyond English with the assumption that I would be teaching a majority of the time in the public school sector and would form a strong relationship with the school and the community I was working in. I unfortunately learned that they was not the case. The vast majority of the week, Fellows teach in businesses and private homes that are spread out all over the city and require hours of time each day on public transportation. Classroom time with actual public school students is limited to 1-2 hours twice a week and the level of integration into the school is very minimal. Unfortunately, shortly after my employment, Beyond English pulled their program out of the school I was teaching in and gave little to no notice that they wouldn't return the following year. This to me wasn't a good sign of their commitment to the community or their mission. My advice to young poeple seeking a teaching opportunity is that there are multiple ways to get involved with English instruction and education in Chile, whether that be through a private program or directly through a school. Consider your options well and you will likely find a better opportunity that provides you more stability, more public school interaction, and a better relationships with the managing staff. The fellows of this organization are fantastic, but management is generally unresponsive to constructive criticism and unreceptive to improvements proposed by their staff.

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