Finding Chinese Students
The Chinese represent the largest pool of ESL learners in the world, but accessing them is not easy. Read my top tips for breaking into the Chinese ESL market.
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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…
April Newsletter: Virtual Classroom Platforms
Click the link to see what we’re talking about in April with some great articles and a SPECIAL OFFER for ‘grandfathered’ Crystal Clear ESL pricing!
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….
Which Virtual Classroom Platform is best for ESL?
One of the best things about launching as a freelance ESL teacher is that minimal start-up capital is required. Sure, you can sign on with an expensive classroom software integration, such as Vedamo or LearnUpon, but do you need to in order to start bringing in revenue? Absolutely not. I’m a proponent of keeping start-up…
Feedback Friday: FREE Form
As a busy mom of three, I am acutely aware that any time I spend working OUTSIDE my virtual classroom is UNPAID. Any prep, feedback, advertising, client relations, etc. that I do cuts into my hourly rate. So I am all about streamlining and automations. How do you streamline FEEDBACK? I have designed this great…
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…
Providing Student Feedback
Q: What is feedback? Feedback is a verbal or written evaluation of a student’s ability and performance during a recent lesson, usually provided to the student or client immediately following said lesson. Q: What does feedback include? Feedback varies by student and by teacher, but I personally use the ‘compliment sandwich’ approach: point out a…
March Newsletter: Feedback
Welcome to Crystal Clear ESL’s first newsletter! Enjoy this introduction to the company and read articles related to providing and soliciting client feedback. Be sure to comment with your own thoughts on the Topic of the Month! If you’ve taken the ‘How to Teach English Online’ course, don’t forget to click the newsletter link to…
