Top Language Schools to Work for in Warsaw?

I am new to the forum and I'd really appreciate your comments/tips regarding the best language schools to work for in Warsaw.

Well that depends what your criteria are and who you want to be teaching

Let's say that I'd like to work for the language school that offers the best pay per hour. I have no problems teaching in companies, universities or language academies.

I just don't want to teach in primary or secondary schools as most kids that age are not serious about learning languages.

Well, I know I'm not going to get the same money as in England

try the British Council

I had no problem charging 150zl (£30) for 90 minute lessons

I just don't want to teach in primary or secondary schools

Woops! Just noticed the dates.

unscrupulous schools like Polanglo

Some blame it on a flood of younger, unqualified 'teachers' turning up to be with girlfriends, wives etc or just to study. These people just need to earn pin money and are easy meat for the worst schools.

Others say that the core of the work in Warsaw, in-company lessons, are far fewer as companies tighten their training budgets and also recruit people who already have a high (or adequate) standard of lessons.

Any connection to the bookshop of the same name?

That's what I'm seeing here in Poznan - a flood of unqualified people turning up and working for peanuts.

Some schools offer work purely as a native teacher and some as lead teachers.

It's destroyed the market in so many other places - the question is, will the EFL market in Poland become closer to that of Spain or of Sweden.

Same thing happened in Prague apparently - endless 'native speakers' looking for work, but barely any of them being able to actually put a lesson together.

This is a bit of a scam. It enables schools to cover half the lessons with a poorly-paid Polish teacher and the other half with some random foreigner who doesn't need to have teaching skills. At the same time touting it as some sort of 'dual method' as if there was actually some real methodology rather than business strategy behind it.

We can also teach as lead teachers and i do so on some business courses.

We are regularly observed and given feed back. Rarely a teacher is asked to leave/leaves at the end of their contract if they are observed not to be teaching well. Students also grade their teachers.

Methodologists do the observations

This isn't standard although it should be.

This always puzzles me - who are these methodologists that some schools use and isn't every qualified teacher a methodologist?

Are the methodologists native speakers?

That's what I'm seeing here in Poznan - a flood of unqualified people turning up and working for peanuts.

After all, why should they pay more when they can hire a fresh-faced "yeah, I can teech innit" sixth-form graduate for 20zł an hour to fund his nightly beer runs with his new Polish bird?

In my experience, a methodologist is someone who has sucked up enough to the owners in a small school, and someone who sucked up enough to the director in a chain school.

I had an amusing run-in with one who was adamant that "realize" was the only acceptable spelling of the word.

No, and this is one of the big issues.

Yes and sadly that's not the largest problem. It's reached that point whereby students (and in fact, schools) are shocked that tutors would dare ask for more than 40zł for an hour of their time. After all, why should they pay more when they can hire a fresh-faced "yeah, I can teech innit" sixth-form graduate for 20zł an hour to fund his nightly beer runs with his new Polish bird? Country life is looking more appetising :)

expection?

In my experience, a methodologist is someone who has sucked up enough to the owners in a small school, and someone who sucked up enough to the director in a chain school.