Avoid at all costs

Ratings
Overall
1
Benefits: 2
Support: 1
Fun: 1
Facilities: 2
Safety: 2
Review

The directors were very helpful up to the point you arrive, but that's where things change. The orientation was a joke and we did not receive the relevant training to be successful in our teaching positions. We weren't paid on time and the housing assistance didn't happen. People at colegios were thrown into teaching classes on their own with ZERO materials, no books no curriculum, not even a white board marker. When the program found out they did not do anything to help, and the schools kept pressuring us to teach class after class of screaming out of control students even though we were supposed to be teaching assistants. Over time they started providing even less support, not responding to phone calls or emails of participants that were being threatened to have their paychecks withheld in 2012. The Facebook group has also become heavily censored, deleting any negative or critical posts and then requiring an administrator to approve any posts before they are allowed. They also threatened to kick anyone out of the program who said anything negative in their blog or in an online forum. (I know this after having contact with participants since I finished the program). Save yourself the program fee and go to Chile. There are plenty of jobs and you can find the one that works best for you.

Would you recommend this program?
No, I would not
Year Completed
2009