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| How many teach online, have, or plan to (even partly)? |
| 1a) I now teach EXCLUSIVELY online through a 3rd party service—students pay them, they pay me. |
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14% |
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| 1b) I now teach PREDOMINATELY online through a 3rd party service. |
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3% |
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| 1c) I now teach PARTLY online through a 3rd party service. |
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| 1d) I TRIED teaching online through a 3rd party service. |
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11% |
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| 1e) I’d CONSIDER teaching online through a 3rd party service IF… |
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22% |
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| 2a) I now teach EXCLUSIVELY online independently—students come to me and pay me directly. |
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0% |
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| 2b) I now teach PREDOMINATELY online independently. |
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| 2c) I now teach PARTLY online independently. |
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3% |
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| 2d) I TRIED teaching online independently. |
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3% |
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| 2e) I’d CONSIDER teaching online independently IF… |
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29% |
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madhatter109
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| Hey everyone. I actually just posted a thread looking for advice on online teaching, but deleted it once I scrolled down and saw this one. I taught for about 3 years online while doing my MA-TESL a few years ago. I recently taught for 2 years in a traditional IEP setting, but my wife and I are moving to a new city next week and so I had to quit my regular full time job. We will be moving to Chicago and the only traditional classroom gigs I've seen are adjunct positions that pay around 20 bucks an hour. I've seen quite a few online job adverts which say they offer around 20-30 per hour and I'm just wondering if it's too good to be true. I loved teaching online in the past (flexible hours and no commute), but the school I used to teach for online only paid about 10 bucks an hour. It was okay as a student, but now that I have high qualifications and experience, I'd love to find something online and legit that pays at least 18-20 per hour. Let me know if you have any recommendations for companies online. |
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LongShiKong
Joined: 28 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2016 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| madhatter109 wrote: |
| Let me know if you have any recommendations for companies online. |
Did you check out the list I posted. |
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madhatter109
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| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2016 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| LongShiKong wrote: |
| madhatter109 wrote: |
| Let me know if you have any recommendations for companies online. |
Did you check out the list I posted. |
Hey LongShikong,
Yeah, I did. Thanks for posting it. I also checked out a lot of the links on the page as well. It seems that most of those jobs are equaling out to about 10 bucks an hour. I was just wondering if anyone on here has experience bringing in more bread online. |
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nomad soul
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| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2016 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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| madhatter109 wrote: |
| I've seen quite a few online job adverts which say they offer around 20-30 per hour and I'm just wondering if it's too good to be true. |
Why not just apply to find out if those gigs are legit? |
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madhatter109
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| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2016 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| nomad soul wrote: |
| madhatter109 wrote: |
| I've seen quite a few online job adverts which say they offer around 20-30 per hour and I'm just wondering if it's too good to be true. |
Why not just apply to find out if those gigs are legit? |
It's good to get first hand info from other teachers about online jobs. It's not the most regulated industry, if you know what I mean. Sometimes in interviews, recruiters / admins for these online businesses will distort the job details, ie. required prep time, available hours, pay fluctuations via performance bonuses. Although it's a growing field, it seems there aren't a lot of regulations. I'd rather ask people for recommendations on which ones to apply to.
That's not to say that there aren't great online ESL/EFL companies out there. But I've been out of the online teaching game for a few years, so I'm here just want to see what companies are safe bets and have reasonable pay. |
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LongShiKong
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| Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2016 12:11 am Post subject: |
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| madhatter109 wrote: |
| ...but they're school I used to teach for online only paid about 10 bucks an hour . |
Could you give us an idea of how rigorous the expectations were of teachers? Were you monitored extensively and trained to follow certain procedures? I'm thinking here of Wall St given what someone else had written not too long ago where lesson plans are written, picture prompts provided and all the teacher does is elicit, check understanding and monitor production and record results. The gamut probably spans from that to newby teachers without any previous teaching experience. |
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nomad soul
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| Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| madhatter109 wrote: |
| nomad soul wrote: |
| madhatter109 wrote: |
| I've seen quite a few online job adverts which say they offer around 20-30 per hour and I'm just wondering if it's too good to be true. |
Why not just apply to find out if those gigs are legit? |
It's good to get first hand info from other teachers about online jobs. It's not the most regulated industry, if you know what I mean. Sometimes in interviews, recruiters / admins for these online businesses will distort the job details, ie. required prep time, available hours, pay fluctuations via performance bonuses. Although it's a growing field, it seems there aren't a lot of regulations. I'd rather ask people for recommendations on which ones to apply to. |
However, waiting around for others to tell you what jobs to apply to shouldn't stop you from proactively contacting those companies on your own. Besides, you can always move on if the job sounds sketchy.  |
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madhatter109
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| LongShiKong wrote: |
| madhatter109 wrote: |
| ...but they're school I used to teach for online only paid about 10 bucks an hour . |
Could you give us an idea of how rigorous the expectations were of teachers? Were you monitored extensively and trained to follow certain procedures? I'm thinking here of Wall St given what someone else had written not too long ago where lesson plans are written, picture prompts provided and all the teacher does is elicit, check understanding and monitor production and record results. The gamut probably spans from that to newby teachers without any previous teaching experience. |
I used to teach conversational classes online. From what I gathered from that list posted at the beginning of this thread, they're all pretty similar. Students just want a native speaker to practice speaking with online. Most of those companies only require you to be a native speaker with some kind of educational background. The on | |
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