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| THE WALL STREET INSTITUTE - TEACHER OPINIONS FROM DAVE'S ESL CAFE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| You want to know what this place is like before you sign a contract. The best option is to ask other teachers. I have pulled information from Dave's ESL cafe about this place. Take it with a grain of salt - I am not saying that any of this is true. You decide. Don't shoot the messenger! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "This is what I know about Wall Street - they are a spin-off of Berlitz. Students work on computers and can 'book' a teacher for an hour every 2 weeks. There are a few activities with live teachers, maybe an hour a week. It's spendy (meaning expensive - ed). Some students can do well with it, as it can be done at their own convenience. I suspect that others don't so so well at it. I have no idea what it is like from the teacher's point of view." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "In Spain they became massive very quicky due to heavy aggressive salesmen bullying people to sign up in their homes. Once they signed up they realised that they had actually signed a credit agreement with a bank which meant that they had to pay for a year's course in advance. Unfortunately people got tired of doing glorified Murphy-type exercises on the computer and dropped out. Consequently branches started closing down with no advance warning leaving students with huge debts for unfinished courses. They were legally obliged to keep paying sometimes for years, for course they were never going to receive. And the teachers suddently found themselves in the streets with no warning either, sometimes they are owed backmonths of salaries. So in Spain they have a terrible reputation (well-deserved if you ask me - ed). Now they are here in Istanbul. If you work for them you will have to work six days a week, with your one day off being Monday-Friday. You will have to pay to sort out your work permit (many other schools do this as well - ed). And the job has about as much to do with teaching as Burger King. Avoid them like the plague." |
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| "I have seven odd years of experience and yet they offered me 1400 YTL. I do know that a few teachers that couldn't cut it where I worked got jobs there. There is very little actual teaching done. The students work on computers and you have a chat with them covering what they've done a few odd times a week. Not good for people who actually want to learn how to speak English. Saw their facility it was quite snazzy and modern looking. If they are still offering the same kind of money then you can do better." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "Wall Street has a method? Pray tell, what is it?" November, 2005 |
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| "...another place I am familiar with is Wall Street. I hear mostly good things about it. I hear the teaching method is not difficult, the hours are typical, - working at least 6 days a week and at least one must be the weekend, and the pay and benefits, if you finish the contract, are not bad." November, 2005 |
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| "Watch out for evil manager Karen at Wall Street Erenkoy . She is a back-stabbing, two faced troll. Everything is fine until you stand up for yourself .. then she will get rid of you quick ..stab her in the back first, that is the only way to handle her." January, 2006 |
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| "I work for Wall Street and really like it there. The bosses are really nice, the working hours are pretty decent, we always get paid on time and the pay is good actually we get paid in Lira, which oddly enough Iprefer right now. We are a pretty structured organization, but we have room for creativity in our speaking classes and our external activities, so I enjoy it." posted March 2005 |
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| "..in Eskisehir. The lowlights: 6 days a week , 33 hours a week - works out to be about 8 dollars per teaching hour. No flights. No accommodation. No mention of work permits or social security. And I thought my place was bad." Posted in May 2006 |
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