I've been in ESL for 9 years now and have worked on 2 continents and am currently in the largest archipelago, Indonesia. I spent 2 years working in Morocco and found that travelling there was way different to working there. My first bit of advice would be to actually travel there first and second would be to try to find a job anywhere else but Morocco. I had been toying with the idea of working there because of its fantastic reputation for travel and stupidly went with expectations. That was my fault wholly.
There were always 'money problems' and that usually meant the owner of the school honey coated his voice to ask teachers to go without pay for a few weeks or the travel money for at least 4 to 5 months.
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Piece of advice no. 3: get an open ended ticket because you never know how a school's going to be and especially with payment. Advice no. 4: Get things in writing and be adamant that you get it. My last year I kept asking for my contract and never received one because I just gave up. When my contract finished, I wasn't paid fully what I was owed: taxi fares for 2 months, 2 doctor's visits (specialist for dysentery and ulcer) - teachers were told that we had medical insurance but in all actuality, did not. I had to pay and was told I would be reimbursed. Wasn't. I was told they were out of money.
To travel is great in Morocco as I've said. If you're a traveller, it definitely shouldn't be missed but to be an employee, be ready to work 6 days a week for pence and work long hours and split shifts for long periods of time. Have no expectations that the school will be good because it's a well known franchise as such. Just because it's good in one country doesn't mean it's the same quality the world round."
This article originally appeared at the ESL Base website.
There were always 'money problems' and that usually meant the owner of the school honey coated his voice to ask teachers to go without pay for a few weeks or the travel money for at least 4 to 5 months.
Learn more about teaching English around the World at David’s ELT World website.
Piece of advice no. 3: get an open ended ticket because you never know how a school's going to be and especially with payment. Advice no. 4: Get things in writing and be adamant that you get it. My last year I kept asking for my contract and never received one because I just gave up. When my contract finished, I wasn't paid fully what I was owed: taxi fares for 2 months, 2 doctor's visits (specialist for dysentery and ulcer) - teachers were told that we had medical insurance but in all actuality, did not. I had to pay and was told I would be reimbursed. Wasn't. I was told they were out of money.
To travel is great in Morocco as I've said. If you're a traveller, it definitely shouldn't be missed but to be an employee, be ready to work 6 days a week for pence and work long hours and split shifts for long periods of time. Have no expectations that the school will be good because it's a well known franchise as such. Just because it's good in one country doesn't mean it's the same quality the world round."
This article originally appeared at the ESL Base website.
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