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EF school - Substitute Teacher EF (Education First) Employee Review

1.0
May 26, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

You get good exercise going up that hill.

Cons

If you are hired as a substitute teacher, you hardly get called in. When you do get called, you go in, they give you their lesson plan half a second before your lesson is going to start. How are you supposed to even do anything or get the lesson started? The teacher is confused and so are the students. The person who interviews you takes your lesson plan and any material you bring to show them. WHY? What are they doing with it and why take it? Aren't you guys designing your own lesson plans? Why take someone elses? Are they stealing it? Then their lesson plans don't even have a meaning, none of the activities are even connected to each other, nothing relates to anything...then they stop responding to email when you email them asking if there is anything available. If you are hired as a substitute, they don't care about you and exploit you. They do nothing for you or the students. This school is a fraud. Plus, when your time is up or whatever time you were hired for, and you apply for a different job there, their response is we can't give you a contract right now. Ha..guess they write your name as "do not call back* and they hire you just to steal your lesson plans and the whole material. This school is nothing, they are a scam, they are a fraud, they will do nothing for you. Do not attend this school nor work at it. This is why some of the students are so angry.

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Pros

Fun place to work at. Lots of opportunities especially early on in a career.

Cons

Sometimes salary is not as competitive as other places in Boston area.

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EF (Education First) Response
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Well this is what it's all about! Early career opportunities while having fun along the way is a big part of what we hope people experience working at EF, and we are happy to hear this in your reflection. Thank you for sharing your note on compensation as well. We review our compensation packages regularly to make sure they align with our industry standards, and we appreciate your perspective on that.
1.0
Jul 7, 2026
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Pros

Well structured, comprehensive formal training. Perks and benefits

Cons

Once training is done, you’re pretty much on your own to figure things out. The weekly meetings with your manager end. You spend all day on the phones and there’s not a whole lot of interaction or collaboration going on in the office or across your team. At the end of the day it is a job and the perks and benefits are nice (travel). It just seemed social interaction of any kind, even to ask questions, was discouraged and in fact was viewed as distracting. The cold calling just gets to be tiring after a while, making it hard to stay at the job for longer than 1-2 years. Good entry level sales job, though.

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