Do NOT work here

Ratings
Overall
2
Impact: 3
Support: 3
Fun: 1
Value: 2
Safety: 2
Review

In case you haven't noticed, every review says how you are working for free. Sadly, ABCi absolutely takes advantage of their volunteers.Their goal, of "making English fun" and increasing language communication between students is a great idea, but with a poor curriculum at best. Their curriculum is filled with camp games and songs, many of which do not meaningfully advance language capacities in foreign students whatsoever. The traveling around Austria is quite nice, but most locations are middle-of-nowhere towns and you wake up around 5:30 am to travel an hour to get there everyday. If you like camp games, I would strongly suggest working at a language camp instead.

ABCi will tell you that you need to volunteer for a full month, only to follow an extremely simplistic set of kids games and activities every day/week. And if ABCi DOES offer to pay you after the month, beware! They offer their employees very different rates and thus never publicly advertise their salary rates since they pay what they feel like. If they think you will volunteer longer, they will absolutely try to get you to. In addition, they like to have their volunteers work on weekends preparing for the next week or for other employees.

If you have any teaching experience whatsoever, this won't really help you develop as a teacher. You're following a scripted set of camp games, and you can go on autopilot quite easily. If you are looking to play around with kids and not have to think very much, while working for free, then this is the program for you.

Would you recommend this program?
No, I would not