April Newsletter: Virtual Classroom Platforms
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Have you been able to rely on online ESL teaching as a full time income? If so, even before the fall of the Chinese market, you could consider yourself one of the lucky ones. Not only are contracted ESL roles increasingly difficult to find, oversaturation of teachers has immediately driven down rates of pay. Where…
Student Feedback – examples
Audio copy: Written copy: Hi CiCi, It’s Teacher Crystal. Thank you for joining me in class today. In today’s lesson we had a lot of fun while you learned the key terms, /green/, /yellow/, /tree/ and /bird/ as well as the verb, /to know/. You really impressed me with your confidence in creating full sentences…
My TOP TIP for Success in 2022
You are a teacher. You are a freelance teacher. Ergo, you are a business professional. Now is the time to launch your online ESL business with your best, professional foot forward, to do it right. Successful businesses start with formal business plans; these are roadmaps to success. As a freelance ESL teacher, you should create…
Use an ESL Niche to Find Students
Think of yourself standing in a crowded square and shouting, ‘I need a person!’ – everyone is going to continue on with their day and ignore you. Psychology has studied the crowd mentality in depth: why take action if there are 100 others who might, can, should? It’s easier to remain faceless than to get…
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Free Resource: How to Use Zoom
I highly recommend using Zoom as your virtual classroom host. It is one of the more reliable platforms and offers many interactive featrures, even in its free version. There is a Chinese version of Zoom available, called ‘Zhumu,’ but I tend to stick to the English version and supply new students with this PPT tutorial….