تقييمات مدرسة Españolé International House، في فالنسيا، إسبانيا

"بعض الغرف لم تكن صالحة للتدريس."

"لا شئ"

"فقط المعدات الصوتية في الفصول كانت غير كافية إلى حد ما، حيث كان على المعلمين أنفسهم التأكد من أن النصوص الصوتية عالية بما فيه الكفاية ولم يكن لدى جميعهم مكبرات صوت جيدة."

"تنوعت كفاءة المعلمين. كان هناك معلمون لم يكن لديهم "سيطرة جيدة" على الفصل. ونتيجة لذلك، كان هناك تشتت انتباه واضطرابات."

"لم يكن هناك ما يمكن انتقاده بشأن المدرسة!"

"لا توجد أنشطة في المساء. لا توجد مساحة بالخارج. لا توجد أنشطة رياضية يومية. ليس كما هو معلن على الموقع على الإطلاق. ندمنا للحجز. ابنتنا غادرت قبل أسبوع من الموعد. كنا على وشك اختيار Enforex ونتمنى الآن لو أننا حجزنا معهم. اعتادت International House أن تتمتع بسمعة طيبة. ليس بعد الآن."

"كان الغذاء منخفض بعض الشيء في جودة الطعام وتنوعه. أفضل إنفاق المزيد من المال ولكن مع جودة ممتازة."

"نقص المساحة في الفصول الدراسية للفصول الأكبر."

"كان الجو شديد البرودة في جميع أنحاء المدرسة"

"المجموعات كانت كبيرة جدًا (تصل إلى 12) في غرف كانت صغيرة جدًا. الكثير من الشباب الذين لديهم رغبة محدودة في التعلم، لا يرتدون أقنعتهم بشكل صحيح وأحيانًا يزعجون الفصل. تم تنظيم الرحلات بشكل جزئي فقط."

"I didn't really enjoy the self-study part of the grammar class, but I get that it’s hard to organize this additional hour any other way."

"The quality and enjoyment of the lessons varied greatly depending on the teacher. Some lessons lacked structure, or the teachers spoke Spanish very quickly, which meant I couldn't understand them."

"There are some young students who disrupt lessons due to a lack of interest. And in November, it's not particularly warm in the classrooms. But that's Spain though."

"While the regular classroom’s instruction was outstanding, DO NOT PAY the additional expense to take their Intensive Language-Building program. It was a complete waste of time and money. Unlike the school’s highly interactive language instruction, their one-hour per day intensive program was more like a study hall or perhaps a more fitting description would be a detention-centre. Students were given pages to silently complete at their sitting place, and once completed to (again) silently hand the work back to the teacher for her written comments; her written reviews of these assignments were very brief. After 2-3 days of this “instruction”, I asked the administration to switch me the other intensive program that they offered—their conversation intensive program. The school immediately offered me that opportunity. But after talking to students who attended the conversation intensive program, they advised me that it was also a complete waste of time and money. As the school had only two-types of intensive programs, I opted not to spend my time needlessly sitting in a make-believe class. Instead, I joined independent city-tours offered by Valencia (which I would highly recommend!). The after-school activities were a disappointment, because they were not fulfilling. It was a surprise that the school didn’t offer more imaginative tours of museum’s and other landmarks. While taking a long bus-ride to walk for a few hours along a beach path, cooking burgers after class, doing yoga and/or a sports activity might be of interest to students in middle school/high school and college students of the freshmen or sophomore age, it didn’t appeal to the 30 plus crowd. My stay with the school was for two-weeks. There were three tours that the school offered which were worth a visit: - The tour of the town’s local graffiti. There, the school’s guide provided lots of information about the rich cultural history behind that art-form. - The archaeological tour was very good. Its guide was a well-informed historian who really offered insight to both the ruins and the history behind the ruins. - A tour, which I couldn’t attend because it was offered on the day after of my departure, may well also have been worthwhile. It was of an oceanographic centre."

"The Seniors were taught together with school children in the same groups. The afternoon activities were rather poor. In Sevilla and Madrid, the afternoon activities were much better and interesting."

"The only thing I liked a little less was the cooking class, which I felt was a little too simple and rushed. Other than that, super."

"Large school with many but small classrooms for the size of the classes (12 people). The majority of the students consisted of young people who had a gap year after high school. They have a different goal than I have. I sometimes found this disturbing in the group. It would have been nice if this had been known in advance."