Pros
They said it was a remote position and it was.
Cons
1) You will be told the curriculum is ready to go and you will be paid an hour for each class you teach for the time needed to review the curriculum. It absolutely is not enough time- you will be given the sorriest excuse for curriculum you have ever seen. Lesson plans for an hour meant to cover 3-4 unrelated standards, softball exit tickets such as "Tell how one person was nice to you today" that aren't connected to the lesson, absolutely no accompanying reading or writing strategies, the list goes on and on. You will also be given standardized plans for classes of various lengths so you would still have to plan to accommodate the plan to your class. 2) Once you’ve fixed the curriculum, good luck teaching it. On their platform, you can't show your own slides or charts- you are given the unusable pre-created slides and five "whiteboards" that are the most unwieldy technology I've used. Imagine WordPad as a Google Slide. The most basic of fonts and a very limited amount of words. You only get 15 minutes before class to set up your whiteboards so I hope you only have five slides to show students. 3) Whenever someone sends you a chat, you lose access to the whiteboard so you can’t do two things at once like on Zoom. Private messages also don't stack like texts, so once you click on them they stop flashing so if you forgot who you were talking to, good luck! 4) You are given NO time to meet and discuss classroom rules with the person in the classroom. I asked over and over again for my classroom coach’s email to no avail. Get ready for the very real possibility of someone muting you, screaming at the kids, interrupting your lesson, insulting you, or simply deciding they are going to show a movie and there is nothing you can do. There is clearly no training for the classroom coaches in this system.
