e-connect vietnam

The first week I arrived they wanted me to do demo classes to prospective schools.

the academic director told me on Monday I would do three demo classes on wednesday. She said you can plan the lessons yourself. She also said she would email me the topics for these lessons that night.

On Tuesday night when she finally emailed me the topics along with the vocabulary and literally jumbled bits and pieces of information. I planned the lessons as best I could considering I had no experience at this school, with the kids, the classes, the style of teaching at this school, anything. She then sent back a scathing attack on my lesson plan.

During a casual conversation with another staff member the next day I found out by chance that I was scheduled to teach two more demo classes on Thursday. I was also told I should plan these lessons. So I went with the flow and planned these lessons as well. The next day I was told I should use text books to plan these lessons but that they couldn’t give me these text books. This was later changed and I was told to plan my own lessons. I later received another email to tell me that I was never supposed to plan these lessons someone else would plan them.

on sunday I found out again during casual conversation that I would be teaching a demo class on Tuesday also. Still no schedule.

I turned up for the demo classes on tuesday but when I got there I was told it had been cancelled.

So I'd planned and prepared for lessons and gone through this chaos for clases that had already been cancelled.

I later came to realize that this is just the everday norm at econnect and does not get better.