Avantages
Pre-prepared PowerPoints available - can help to save some time, unless you prefer using your own resources instead.
Admin - friendly and responsive team who work very hard to contact parents and facilitate crisis management, as well as assigning classes. A high volume of lessons is up for grabs, if you have the availability! They effectively handle liaison with parents, so that tutors can focus on tutoring.
ClassTutor portal - an awesome online resource implemented recently, which helps both tutors and tutees alike, in and out of the lessons!
Inconvénients
Pay - a sudden, unexplained decrease in the rates for lessons since last year…
Group classes of 5+ students become far trickier to manage, with no further financial incentive whatsoever for the tutor (capped at £25/hr). I had several classes that were far too large - this made the company lots of money, but made my life significantly harder, whilst also reducing the lesson quality for other students already in the group
Bonus - this might as well not exist, with a patronisingly low reward after a year of hard work, half of which you only receive if you continue until the next academic year!
Benefits - requesting leave is far too tricky and inconsistent a process with lots of hoops to jump through, despite how much you contribute to the company - even if you are teaching 25+ hours a week!
“No shows” - no financial compensation at all for preparing a resource and waiting 15 minutes in a zoom call, when a student doesn’t turn up.