TeacherTee Ltd Reviews 131

To begin with they were great
When I was first getting started, I had regular meetings and it was good to have that guidance. However, I went on holiday, and haven’t heard from them since. They called me 2 or 3 times while I was away and I told them I was away and we could talk when I was back, but I haven’t heard since. My teaching is continuing and it’s going good though.

My experience with TeacherTee was great as they were so efficient and timely with what needed to be done to join Preply. They were especially helpful with making sure I met all the requirements to join Preply and once I joined, providing a video with useful tips on how to succeed and make money quickly. I found this the excellent springboard to recommencing my teaching career at Preply and I can’t recommend TeacherTee enough for their informative and efficient approach.

TeacherTee were really helpful and guided me through the process of applying to Preply! They told me all the information that I needed to know and about the documentation that was required by the company, this made the process quicker for me.
Thank you TeacherTee for all your help!!

The company is really attentive and assist you with any issues you have along the way.

Very helpful, very supportive, great communication

My pet peeve is Americanisms. I am not happy with getting currency charges on my earnings either. The learners find the listening exercises very automated and boring, as do I. After the tutor view is off - I tend to do role play instead, to encourage reading and oracy.

Fabulous support and help from this company, very thankful for all the support they have given me.

Very unreliable!!
I applied for a job, got the interview and I had to produce a video to introduce myself. They said it wasn’t good enough and needed another call to discuss this so it could be corrected. I sent multiple emails but have been IGNORED. I’m so disappointed in them as they seemed like a reputable site. I’m a young person who has been desperate for work, this was my light and I thought it was the end to my problems. Company’s should not be able to do this to people. Please don’t use them.

The company gave me a great business model, then followed up several times to keep me on track, offering sound advice to keep me motivated and heading upward in my tutoring career. Luke, Fran and the team always make me value myself, and they're only a phone call away if I need them.

Definitely do not use this company if you are an experienced teacher. If you are inexperienced and happy to work for £4 an hour and you don't mind being ignored 95% of the times you contact TeacherTee, then definitely work with this company!

Basically, the only platform that TeacherTee seem to refer you to is Preply. They get a "small" commission from this, which is clearly why they don't help you in the slightest once you are live on the platform. I thought having a recruitment agency meant that I could ask them questions about the platform, seeing as they consider themselves the experts, but it takes weeks of contacting them before they reply to you.

They tell you to set your pay for $10USD (they check you have done this TWICE before your profile goes live). As Preply takes such high commission (and you don't get paid a single penny towards trial lessons which are mostly 1hr long), you get paid absolute peanuts, even if you are experienced.

I regret working with TeacherTee so so so much, and I don't want others to make the same mistake.

I am so frustrated that I am being paid £5.50 an hour (I have worked my way up from commission, so this is not the lowest pay you will be receive) when I have lots of experience teaching. Teacher Tee have said that I will need to speak to my students and agree with them to raise the pay if I want to. However, why would you sign up for lessons on $10USD and agree to raise them to a normal fee, such as $25USD? That is ridiculous. I don't want to have these awkward conversations with students, making me look like I'm trying to scam them. I want to be paid a fair pay from the start - and this has not happened.

You also get good visibility at the start with Preply, but now I do not have this advantage. So, even if I changed my pricing now, it is unlikely that new students will find me.

Just to give you an idea of how awfully paid you are with Preply, here are my statistics (as an experienced teacher with over 4 years of online experience and in the freelancing environment). I have worked 33.5 hours, and I have been paid £80.48. Don't forget there is also a fee to remove your money from Preply, so realistically, I have earnt about £77 in total from 33.5 hours of work. Just for reference, if you worked this in a 'usual' job, as a minimum pay requirement in the UK, I should have been £383.24 - and I wouldn't have been charged to withdraw my own salary! This means that I have been paid almost ONE FIFTH OF THE UK MINIMUM WAGE.

I have worked in many freelance roles, but I have never ever ever been paid so abysmally low. In fact, I have never made below the UK legal minimum pay in my multitude of roles. How they think this is acceptable is completely beyond me. Why they thought I shouldn't charge any higher is also beyond me. They say it's "difficult" to tell you how much you should charge, as everyone's case is different, so why are they so certain that everyone should charge 10USD? I messaged them about raising it, but of course there was no response. I am now stuck with 20+ students all paying me £5 an hour.

And, yes, I managed to finally speak to them about it. I was frustrated, but the man on the phone told me it was "my opinion" that I should earn above minimum wage. I found his tone very frustrating and condescending. He was not supportive or understanding. He simply kept telling me that it is possible to speak to my students and raise my prices. His attitude confirmed to me that they do not care about tutors at all. As I have explained above, this is ridiculous and does not even attempt to cover all the losses I have made while working with Preply.

So, just to clarify, DO NOT WORK WITH TEACHER TEE. If you want to sign up for Preply and work for abysmally low wages, go for it. You can do it yourself. And you know yourself better, so you can make it personal to your experience and your needs. But, I don't think that it's acceptable during a cost of living crisis to encourage people to sign up to this platform, especially when Preply takes 100% commission for trial lessons.

I applied to be a ESL online teacher with this company. Started off well with good communication and they asked me to provide an intro video and picture to build my profile. However once I sent it to them, we had a call scheduled for next steps and they never called me. I never had any contact to say it would be cancelled or postponed so, wondering what happened, I emailed many times and have had ZERO response. Had to give up with them in the end. Not impressed.

Teacher tee are amazing and have been extremely helpful! Both Luke and Fran have been an amazing help regarding my teaching journey and have provided excellent support and advice. 100% recommend for any tutor looking to start or continue their journey!

TeacherTee helped me find an opportunity in a Job market where opportunities seemed obsolete. I am growing stronger in my online teaching career everyday with great thanks to TeacherTee.

Excellent company to work with. Reliable, efficient and effective. Highly recommended.

Preply has been amazing so far! My journey from the start until now has been very supportive, informative and fun! The staff at Preply are wonderful and helpful. The platform is great once you are able to navigate your way around and there is always room for you to progress with weekly seminars and discussions to take part in. I am very happy with Preply and is great for wanting to do something in your spare time or earn that extra side income.

I want to thank Luke and Fran at Teacher Tee for their amazing support! From the moment I applied through Indeed, my experience with their team has been great. As a new online teacher, they have truly gone above and beyond, offering consistent communication via calls, emails, and texts to keep me informed every step of the way. Their flexible scheduling made it easy for me to fit appointments around my day, which I really appreciate. They introduced me to Business English, enabling me to attract business students on Preply, and their guidance has been invaluable throughout the process. I have loved Working with Teacher tee. I’m excited about future opportunities with them. I wholeheartedly recommend Teacher Tee and wish them continued success. Your 5-star support has been incredible—thank you so much!

I was accepted to TeacherTee based on my credentials and then rejected based on my ability to produce a promotional video, or at least that's what I'm assuming as they didn't actually outline a reason. I sent an email asking for feedback, as the application process did take me some time. They just ignored it. This wasn't the only example of discourtesy I experienced with them. They also texted me on a Sunday morning telling me "you have 24 hours to produce the video", like I was being held to some kind of ransom. It's all very sketchy too; having to upload your video to youtube and then set it to private because they want you to "keep it just between you and [them]". They don't care about the subject, about education or about recruitment; for those of you like me trying to escape the corporate influences of the education system, these guys are just as bad.

Update: In their response the Teachertee team has claimed that they sent me multiple prompts to complete my video on time. This is false. I had agreed with their rep. on a Friday afternoon that I would submit my video by the following Tuesday, which I did. Their only prompt was sent to me on the Sunday and was sent in error, as a result of their own poor communication.

This company is deeply suspicious.

They advertise as having work for teachers, then refer you to websites which anyone can access, and waste your time filling in forms again and again, with no relationship with thes companies.

They then ask you not to use your own phone number and amend your email address, which seem they are intercepting your correspondance.

I have no idea what they do, but stay away.

Repeated email to them after they have been found out result in no response.

Following the reply.

It's incredible how quick they respond to these reviews, yet are unable to reply to any emails sent to them.

They also tell you not use your phone number when applying to one of their "partners", these same partners they seemingly have no relationship with, meaning you have to repeat the same application process again and again.

And just to be clear, I wasn't turned down, I chose to end the application so as to remove any association with teachertee.

Had call with Fran on the first week of August, she asked me to submit the a 1-2 min video by Thursday but due to few issues I couldn’t. However, I did submit it the following Monday. I was told it will take 2 weeks to process everything. Sent them numerous emails however, I have had no response at all. I don’t know what’s happened, but there has been no contact since then. Kind of feels like I wasted my time preparing all these videos and stuff. I am very disappointed at this moment.

The calls I've had with Fran have been very useful. Pointing me in the right direction about how to get more students and improve my profile. One thing to improve on is the email systems after you tell them your profile is approved, one email per day is too much. I am editing this review over a year later. I never got the uber eats voucher I was promised and after signing up to the teacher tee newsletter again, was bombared with more than one email a day. But no really useful information about job positions. It's really only for inexperienced teachers who can't work out how to go on google and look for a job.