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GabeKessel
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 Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:02 pm Post subject: Online Teaching |
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Hello,
Could you recommend any good sites/companies that need online teachers?
Can you make a living doing that? How much can people make on the average? Are there enough students? Can you go and live in a third country where it is cheaper and still teach? Say, I am a US citizen then I go to Mexico and stay and teach there. Is it possible? Meaning: there are no contractual obligations that one needs to be in the US.
All answers will be appreciated.
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naturegirl321
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running dog
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:15 am Post subject: NN |
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Gabe, thought you'd sunk without trace, but seems you're still holding the fort out there somewhere .... Anyway for you (or anyone else who's interested) here's one man's experience of on-line teaching. I worked for about 15 months for a large European telecoms operation. The basic rate came to about 27 euros an hour. The classes lasted 30 minutes, 3 times a week (anything from 12 to 15 students). The Bonus, which made the thing worthwhile, was that they also paid for me to come for 2 days each week to the capital to teach in the legal department head office (hotel/train/meals provided).
On-line teaching can best be compared to working on a telephone sex line.. Keep cooing and purring and telling the customer how well he or she is expressing himself in english and keep watching the clock until you can breathe a sigh of relief and say, "Sorry, I've got to go now. There's someone on the other line". The other thing to keep in mind is it cannot be done with beginners. Believe me, I did my best but it just CANNOT be done. From lower intermediate on, it's just about possible but still a kingsize pain in the ass. Do it if you've got nothing else lined up at the moment but get back into the classroom as soon as you can. The personal contact, sense of control and professional satisfaction bears no comparison |
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sempreco
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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Good to see this topic posted. I am new to online teaching, too.
I have found www.buddyschool.com a good website for freelancing.
Could I ask a few more questions? What books/materials do people find most useful for online teaching? What programs are best? ie would I need to use something like webex, or would msm/skype be ok? Are there any activites that don't work?
BTW seems like that was a pretty well paid job you had running dog. Can I ask which company it was with? |
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danielita
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: NN |
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| running dog wrote: |
| On-line teaching can best be compared to working on a telephone sex line.. Keep cooing and purring and telling the customer how well he or she is expressing himself in english and keep watching the clock until you can breathe a sigh of relief and say, "Sorry, I've got to go now. There's someone on the other line". |
Running Dog, I can't disagree with you more. I taught online for over a year and never ran any of my classes like that. The company I worked for had lesson plans to complete and lesson reports that I was required to fill out with vocabulary and grammar points that we covered during the lesson. Perhaps the students you had wanted to get the endless praise, but my students wanted continuous correction and would actually ask me to correct them MORE. There is no way I could have just sat on the phone telling them how great a job they were doing.
| running dog wrote: |
| The other thing to keep in mind is it cannot be done with beginners. Believe me, I did my best but it just CANNOT be done. From lower intermediate on, it's just about possible but still a kingsize pain in the ass. Do it if you've got nothing else lined up at the moment but get back into the classroom as soon as you can. The personal contact, sense of control and professional satisfaction bears no comparison |
I disagree with this point too. Beginners can be taught online if they have specific tasks that they need to complete in their lesson plan and the lesson is in front of them. It also helps if you can speak their L1. I worked with beginners that didn't even know their numbers or colours. We went through all the basics together and the students did learn. Of course it requires a lot of patience and good planning.
I have found online to be a great secondary income source but I would not recommend it to everyone. People that don't like talking on the phone or doing role playing will find it difficult and you have to be able to work within the guidelines set up by the company.
I also recommend that you RESEARCH the company and their rules before applying. There is actually one company that charges you if you are sick and can't keep your lessons.
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GabeKessel
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| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:22 am Post subject: |
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Thank you all. I am now looking through the sources provided. I will get back
to you with results soon. |
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