Experiences at Sylvan Learning Center

Honestly, it's about being the right person at the moment the center is looking. Centers change what they're looking for depending on the current student enrollment, and there's no real way to predict that.

Beyond that, you're most likely to be hired if you're flexible and can really demonstrate that you are comfortable working with a range of ages. If the center offers you the chance to observe an instructional hour, definitely take advantage of that. The director is trying to see how much you want to be there, and the teacher is watching to see if and how you interact with the kids.

Free hint as the teacher most often conducting a candidate observation for my own center: pick a student and start working with them. Also, ask questions. The teacher does actually expect you to ask about Sylvan's philosophy and about how the programs work....

One must have a great deal of flexibility to work at Sylvan Learning Center as well as a love of teaching. Teachers are placed due to their strengths, and they must be able to cheerfully juggle up to three students at a time, often with different subject interests.

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The best team I worked with at Sylvan was the new owners, because they really wanted to give me the support that I should have had all along, aothough, because of their purchase I am out of a job, I still hope to be employed by them in the future.

I found Sylvan Learning Center on a web site.

Be yourself and let the families know that you are preoared to help their child and treat them as if they wer your own.

What I learned at Sylvan is that I thought I had a love for my other jobs but this one out won them by far, because of what I was able to do in a short period of time.

The three best things about working at Sylvan was the way each student developed a sense of "I can do it" attitude within a couple of weeks, which ment their self esteem was improving, The families I now consider part of, and the relationships and networking I did for Sylvan.

The toughest problem I had to solve was to share with a parent that their child was not making any effort and really did not want to be there and rather then having them waste money, I felt it was in their best interest to disenroll, Sylvan is not for every student.

The most challenging aspect of my job, was with a corporate center there is not alot of support and when we were bought as a franchise I felt that the support was there, I had ran the center for the year and a half by my self, when there should have been 2 directors to share the responsibilities, but I did it with ease because I loved my job and I wanted to see the success and self esteem of the students....