Unsatisfied

We got lucky in regards to our teaching placement. We were placed with a private weekend school who then contracts with public schools in the area to give us teaching hours 4 days during the week. One day on the weekend we teach private lessons at the school we're contracted with.

We want to come back to the school because they treat us well and there are many different teaching experiences to be had. We were under the impression that after we finished our contract with TTC that we could go off on our own and start contracting directly with our school if we wanted to stay after the first term/internship.

Not necessarily so. TTC had made a separate contract with our school forbidding them to contract directly with any teachers that completed the first term with TTC; they could only contract through TTC again if they wanted to get re-hired, or else the school would have to pay a hefty fee.

TTC did not make us aware of this AT ALL. We felt pretty scammed, as they tout that after your internship, you will be employable and are free to apply for tefl jobs independently. Wouldn't recommend this company to anyone else looking for a tefl experience, to be honest. If you do contract with TTC, remember to ask them if they have arranged a second contract directly with the school you're placed at.