Favorite Thing: UNFAVORITE THINGS ABOUT CUENCA. Simon Bolivar is the school that I first attended in Cuenca. I was unhappy with the teacher. Four hours of daily one-to-one lessons with an unprepared, bored, and uninspired teacher was truly painful. I did not look forward to the classes. Since the school does NOT rotate its teacher, I was going to ask for a different one after two weeks. When I asked the other students about their teachers, they didn’t have anything positive to say so I left the school and found a different one.
The school does NOT offer a conversational class or a language exchange with Ecuadorians students studying English (nor would they help me find one). This was a real disappointment for me. My primary purpose in attending was to work on my conversational skills so Simon Bolivar didn’t meet my needs or expectations.
In the past six years, I’ve attended five schools in five different countries. Simon Bolivar in Cuenca ranks in the bottom. I was truly surprised at the lack of skills the teachers had in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. Perhaps I attended at a “wrong” time or got assigned to a “bad” teacher, but I heard rumbling of discontent from other students about their teachers. It’s obvious that there is no quality control or emphasis on hiring and continue training of their teachers.
If you decide to attend Simon Bolivar, don’t pay for more than one-week in advance and be prepared to walk away if the school doesn’t meet your needs or expectations. There are other schools in Cuenca.
Minimum 20 hours per week (US$160 per week) plus US$20 registration fee.
Address: Luis Cordero 10-25 y Gran Colombia
Telephone: 2832-052
Website: http://www.bolivar2.com/
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