Pros
The school had a lot fo resources and the students were friendly. The local staff were very helpful and the other teachers were generally a great group to work with.
Cons
1: Low salary considering the sheer volume of work and hours you had to complete. I usually worked a 40-50 hour week but was only paid for 28. 2: High expectations of teachers yet little time to meet them. Planning was unpaid and usually felt rushed as there was always a list of things to do. 3: Disorganised teacher development. 4: Awful Academic team who had little to no leadership skills and very little empathy for teacher's mental health problems, stress and workload, 5: Most IH schools are mere exam factories. Everything is dominated by tests and you merely teach to them. 6: IH used to be a great place to get some experience before moving to the British Council but those days are gone. It is exploitative and just burn through new teachers while small groups of longer serving teachers get the benefits. 7: The inspections IH carries out on its schools are a joke. They have very little concern for actual academic standards and use the same small number of inspectors who are usually friends with other Academic managers to isnpect each others' schools.
