From the article: English Teaching Experiences
Teaching English abroad is a wonderful opportunity for many English teachers to travel and see the world. Of course, teaching English is a profession and the treatment of English teachers from contractual to cultural can vary greatly from country to country. These shared experiences will help teachers get insight into what might await them teaching English online. Share your Experiences
Pros and Cons of Online Teaching
- I have recently finished teaching online for a well-known international education provider. I was employed on a 12 month fulltime contract and based in their Bali teaching centre. I taught both group and private student classes. I found it extremely difficult to teach in an environment where the company appeared to care little for quality education and was merely interested in the holy dollar. At every opportunity teachers' already meagre wages penalised for infringements that were often caused by Management. Remuneration was in Indonesian rupiah and worked out at less than USD$6 per hour. In addition to my teaching load I found myself working many unpaid hours each week in order to meet their reporting schedule. Most of my students were fantastic and I loved teaching online, although I found 8 classes back to back with no little downtime challenging. Try to find out the company's REAL attitude before you choose to sign a contract - don't believe their recruitment hype!
- —Guest Cewek
Online English Teacher
- Hi everyone I have been teaching for 33 years. I taught in Italy for 25 years and have been teaching online from Ontario, Canada since I returned home 8 years ago. I am TEFL qualifed with a Canadian BA in Physical Education and Psychology. I would enjoy finding a few new students from other than Italy. But I am fine with Italians too. I am obviously fluent in Italian but I have taught many nationalities online in my last 8 years. Quite honestly, I m not sure what I am supposed to write here. So if you re interested in my lessons please contact me via Skype. My ID is terriann219. Thanks Terri
- —Guest tasberri
Online teacher
- I've been teaching for 6 years already and I love it. I avoid teaching Koreans 'though because they avail teachers of Asian countries but they don't respect them. They think the money that they pay is good enough to treat teachers badly.
- —Guest Grace
Teaching ESL Online
- Hello! I am currently involved with a pilot project with the BC Ministry of Education (Canada). We are teaching courses online to International Students. I am very interested in connecting with people who have successfully taught ESL online. Please contact me : GlobalEdvr@gmail.com We have had a lot of success teaching online, but we are looking for new and different ways as well! Thank you
- —Guest verenanz
Teaching experience in Korea
- this is an excellent opportunity to make money, pay off school loans and save a lot. most hires are in their thirties but be aware that you must show some respect: clean up after yourself, wear business casual professional clothing. The visa is hard to get because previous teachers faked gtheir resume or documents so don't fall into that trap. ROK and the US have a reciprocal agreement for money transfers and visas. Korea pays the most of any country but they are also getting wealthy as a society; stay in the larger cities because the locals won't speak English
- —Guest nartekkeb
teaching online
- I have registered at numerous on line teaching sites for the past two years and have yet to get a paying student.They all want free lessons.I don't see any chance of making money doing it and have given up
- —Guest Joseph
Teaching online experiences: great!
- I have been teaching online for three years. I teach English, Spanish and French and enjoy having students all over the world. We, the students and me, learn from each other due to that, cultural knowledge and job opportunities increase everyday. We have very dynamic classes practicing all languages skills with lessons planned for each individual's needs. Skype: ileana.borbon Mail: teacher@tutor-translator.com. My site: www.tutor-translator.com
- —Guest iliborbon
Teaching Online is Great
- I've been teaching online for a few years now and it has become my full-time business. It took a lot of work to find the right technology, teaching methods, and promotional strategies. Now that it's all come together, I love it even more than in-class teaching (which I started doing 14 years ago). I've noticed that there are many people who can chat with students, but there is a market out there for serious teachers. Sidhartha Desai www.ExpertEnlgishTeacher.com
- —Guest www.ExpertEnglishTeacher.com
