EducatorsAbroad in England Past Review

Academic rigor, intensity, resources, etc.

My time with the school and doing the teaching in a completely different setting was amazing! I really enjoyed that I had the opportunity to do this and do some more travelling on top of it. The lack of the fifth star would be the living situation was expensive, and I was given little help and few options. Also, it took quite a long time for me to get my placement. I had to wait until about a month before I left to find out my school and country.

On-site administration of your program

I enjoyed working with my immediate supervisor and he was very helpful, except in the area of housing. He was quite biased about his help in that reguards. The supervisor I had worked with that would be his immediate supervisor was quite inaccesible. She was the one that was dropping the ball with sending updates and information about my status before I got the assignment. I also tried to meet her while I was there and she did not answer my emails, so I never did get to discuss with her or meet her.

How satisfied were you with your living arrangements?

I stayed with a nice family, but they took me for all money. I got there expecting to pay much less which was my fault for not confirming what the price would be. Then I was new and didn't know that I was being charged way too much. When I found out from my co teachers that I was paying quite a bit more than necessary I was already through half of my placement. The conditions were pretty good, but the money thing threw me off so much I didn't enjoy living with them when I knew I was enough of a hassel to them that I needed to pay an arm and a leg.

The family I stayed with served a really good meal every night. The mom was stay at home so we had a really nice large family meal every night. During the day the school provided lunch for all of the staff, so I had some of the greatest school food ever. The cook was amazing!

How integrated did you feel with the local culture?

I really would have liked to be more involved to see more of the community, but I had to be very careful spending money. But I got to see a lot of the country side and the more "posh" areas of the UK. I also got to feel a great deal like a Londoner every once in a while. I spent quite of bit of my weekends there to see everything and see the sights as well as the historical landmarks.

How well were health issues addressed during the program?

never had a problem

Very safe. The community was quite wealthy and had few incidents that I felt uncomfortable walking in town. I even came home on the train late in the evenings a few times and felt comfortable walking all the way back to my host families house.

(1 = not very easy/$200+ on food & personal expenses/week, 2.5 = $100/week, 5 = very easily/minimal cost)

This was quite rough. I spent $450 a week on my room and board living with the family.

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• The people at the school and my immediate
• supervisor really were very kind and helpful and really
• welcomed me to the country and the school.

• More notice before my departure. I was told only about
• a month before I left and had little to no time to set up
• accomodations or make plans to travel.