Program Reviews

I worked for ILA for a year and a half and it was a good experience all around.

The management are aupportive and there are a lot of supplementary resources. There are lots of opportunities for professional development and career growth.

The teachers are all really helpful and share ideas and resources. There is also a really fun social element to ILA. Everyone hangs out together and ILA holds social events and has a community netowrk which is a great opprtunity to get involved with the local community!

Overall is was a good place to work - better than a lot of other schools!

I worked at ILA Vietnam from March till October 2011. The children were a joy to teach, generally fun and well behaved. The school was also relatively well equipped. However the management were unreliable and dishonest. They gave me a 12 month contract and then revoked it after enrollment dropped down. This was frustrating as I felt like I worked really hard while other teachers were slacking around.

My advice for new teachers in Vietnam is that you're not really hired to teach, just to be a white face. The main factor determining your employment success is who you go drinking with.

The school was very nice and they had tons of resources - yet they were poorly organized. They also had a good review and assessment program. In general - I liked working for them.

They required a long contract that I didn't like, but they did allow me to switch to part time - so they were willing to work with me.

The students were pretty good, but many of them weren't really bought into learning many times as their parents had just sent them there. I preferred teaching the adults since they were a bit more bought in.

I wasn't nuts about my working schedule and how the vacation time worked - so be sure to really understand how that works. I liked my manager, but I didn't like the people above him too much as they didn't seem very involved at all with the teachers. Probably pretty typical stuff when it comes to teaching ESL.