Please avoid this place - ESL Teacher Sino-Canada School Employee Review

Relaxed work day, no office hours

Chaotic environment, students do whatever they want

The students were always excited to see their foreign English teachers. Since we had very different teaching styles compared to the traditional Chinese teaching method of "drill, drill, drill". Students often knew we came with exciting and engaging "games" that helped them learn.

TLDR: Too large of class, students clearly thrown into higher level English classes when they may have never spoken English before, poor management. Class sizes (25-30 students). Students thrown into level inappropriate English lessons. For example a student who never studied English before would be in the same class as a student with near native English ability both tasked to learn complex grammar structures when the new to English student couldn't even say "hello". When asked why we couldn't put students into age appropriate foreign English classes, management said they didn't want parents to complain. It honestly would have benefited students! Speaking of management, management was chaotic! We wouldn't be informed about decisions until the very last minute. We went into the 2022 Covid Lockdowns without the proper software or a plan on how they would like our lessons to be taught online. They had 2 years to have the software and plan in place and nothing was prepared! The software management did choose was not for teaching Elementary students. They chose the free software (Tencent Meetings <- China's version of Zoom) that was meant for business meetings.