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…
I interview Tim, Online Teacher Dude, about how and why to diversify your online ESL income through teaching and non-teaching means. Catch the replay!
A backstage walkthrough of the dashboard and members’ lesson library at Crystal Clear ESL, including teaching tips. Enjoy answers to the following questions: How to log in; Where to find lesson material; How to assess new students’ levels; What is available and what is in production; How to ‘stream’ lessons over your choice of virtual…
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…
Teaching Phonics to ESL learners is very different to teaching to Native English ones. For starters, beginner level ESL students usually won’t have a wide foundation of English vocabulary to draw from, so they’ll be learning sounds and blending them into words before they actually know the meanings of those words. For NES this works…
You asked for it, I answered! Introducing the NEW General Curriculum Level Diagnostic – a tool you can use to determine where in the step-by-step curriculum to place your new students. This fun, interactive tool can be used within your trial lesson, in conjunction with your normal ‘getting to know you’ routine. Use the scoring…
Enjoy these fun songs, each featuring a phoneme, in conjunction with the fully interactive, digital curriculum available NOW. Register for Level One as a freelance teacher or independent learner and build a solid foundation of phonetic awareness through fun, games and songs! Click F11 or … for full screen view.
Many of our teachers have had a look at the flashy new fully interactive Level One intensive Crystal Clear Phonics course available here at Crystal Clear ESL. Many of you have also wondered how to enable interactive functionality while screensharing this lesson material to students over Zoom. I’m here with your solution! If your student…
