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astormyjet · 3 years ago

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Winter of 2018 - Summer of 2021 TIME FILES WHEN YOU’RE IN YOUR 20s!!!!

OH BOY. It’s been three years (or more) since I updated this. “Time is a weird soup!” to quote a fave. I guess I quit tumblr around the time there was a purge of content and creators and a smack down on a lot of the fandom communities. Tumblr has always been something of a crapshow though so I’ve been more productive with my time than I was in some ways, but I’ve also found other ways to waste my time. *cough twitter/netflix/youtube/MTGArena cough*.

General Life Achievements since 2018 -JLPT N3 GET in 2019! -Blackbelt GET in 2018! -TESOL 120 Hour and BE 50 Hour Cert from online provider GET in 2021 -STUDENT LOAN BANISHED (Thank you grandparents) -Survived Apartment flooding in early 2020. -Mystery anxiety related illness and chronic pain in my left leg from early 2020 - Present. -A mythical 6th and 7th year on the JET Programme. -Started posting on Instagram a lot more about my wanderings around Matsuyama/Uwajima. Mainly old buildings and stray cats. @astormyknight -Surviving so far in Japan with old rona-chan.

2018 was rough. I was given an additional school in the first semester (March to July) as we had someone find a better job. I enjoyed it, but it was a bit of a rough go especially when I was transferred that August after three fantastic years at Tsubaki JHS and ES and only a semester there. I legit went through the five stages of grief - which I think is another reason I stopped blogging. I was given my current base school along with four other schools. Going from 2(3) to 5 schools was a bit of an adjustment. I still feel a bit spread out.

That said, I keep running into teachers and students who were at the Tsubaki’s. The teachers shuffle around every April, so it's always a lottery with which new faces are going to be old friends (or enemies…). A couple of kids moved and transferred into my current schools from Tsubaki too. So I have one kid I can say I've been teaching for 6 out of the 7 years I've been here!

One of the kids who was in JHS 3rd grade when I first got here (in 2015!) hangs out around one of my favorite cafes, so I got chatting with him recently. He's in his second year of nursing school - his class nearly broke me in the first year, it was really a trial by fire with those kids. I was 22 then, and he’s 20 now, so it was interesting chatting to him about that first year of teaching. His younger sister was one of my favorite students too, she was in the group of kids that graduated in the March of 2018, the year group that went through Tsubaki JHS with me - they’re newly minted University students now!

This Thursday morning when I was cycling in to work, a kid who was 2nd year JHS when I left (so 2nd or 3rd year JHS now) pulled up with their Mum in a van and got their mamachari out of the back to bike to school. The franticness of it all was hilarious. Their Mum legit sat on the horn until I pulled over. I was so happy to run into this kid, even at social distance and both of us late to work/school - because we both remembered each other and as they were going around the corners they were yelling each time they turned and humming the old elementary school directions chant and pelting me with questions about what I’ve been up to.

I've had so many students and schools now, that everything is kind of running into a blur. I remember flashes of kids faces and voices, random memories of in class or out of class shenanigans out of the blue. Also, I now, more than ever, have issues remembering kids' names, but I still know their faces (even with their masks), whose homeroom class they were in, who their friends were and which club they were in. I get random flashbacks to past conversations with them when I see them on the street or we run into each other. I feel bad because the first thing former students ask is ‘Do you remember my name?’ and I always have to be like, ‘Honestly, no, but I remember you did this on x day, x month in x classroom’.

Socially in 2018 -2019 - a few of our friends went home and things shook up a little. Our DnD group changed a bit - one of our players stepped into the role forever DM (THANK YOU RALPH). From memory the newbies were great - some of them just went home at the start of last month and it’s weird not seeing them around (JESS DO YOUR BEST!). I think we only have one or two people left from that rotation. There’s no 6th year ALTs, and only two 5th years.

Aug 2018 - Aug 2019 was the year of Hiura - my mountain school. Dang man, they were so cool. The students of the JHS and the ES combined barely hit 30, so each class was between 3-10 students depending on the grade. It was easier to get to know the kids, their abilities and their goals than it has been for me at other schools. I miss it so bad, being in nature once a week did my country-kid heart so good! The bugs! The frogs! The river! The mountain! The monkeys! The lizards! The dilapidated houses and hidden shrines!!!! The random crabs in the English room...I forgot that there was such a thing as freshwater crabs, and being right next to a river, the invasion wasn’t as out of place as I first thought...

The area is so picturesque and calming. Every week up there was a small adventure (after getting over my motion sickness from the bus ride up). The kids were constantly pranking either myself or the main English teacher. There was always some new weird bug or lizard in a tank to be educated about. There were chickens on the way to the JHS that used to escape from their cardboard box prisons to run riot on the gardens. There were old people to freak out with my youth and foreignness! The kids also got to do a lot of extra classes, sumiyakai (making charcoal the traditional way), planting and maintaining rice paddies, setting up vegetable gardens, raising fireflies, conserving a special breed of fire lily (only found in this particular mountain valley) and another rare flower, wilderness training ect.

I wish I could have stayed there a lot longer but SOMEONE (read...the BoE) decided that schools had to be shuffled again(thank goodness the dude who has it now was able to keep it from the 2021 shuffle, he's the best fit for the school). I had so many good memories from there, I wish I had been more consistent in writing it down. I do have a bunch of photos and videos from there though, so that's nice. The only thing I don’t miss is the bus trip up and down - not only was it motion sickness, there was a healthy dose of fear each ride as the driver brought us perilously close to the edge of the mountain drop…

2019 - 2020 was interesting. With the school I got given instead of the Hirua’s I was roped into more demonstration lessons which was a lot of pressure because I was also involved quite heavily with the JHS observation and training lessons too. They were somewhat rewarding, the third graders are now super smart 5th graders, but the teachers who need to embrace the new curriculum and ways of teaching really haven’t taken on anything from the lessons....

Outside of work as well, I was given the chance, thanks to an ALT buddy of mine, to join in with the local festival. It's been one of the biggest highlights of my time here, and I am gutted it’s been cancelled for the last two years, but I understand the reason…. I was able to travel to Okinawa too during that summer for an international Karate seminar with the Dojo I train with. I met the head of the style I currently practice and a bunch of people from around the world. I also got to see Shuri castle before it burned down. So that was a stroke of luck. One of the places I want to go when/if we get out of this pandemic is Okinawa. I want to see more of those Islands so bad. Just before the whole pandemic thing too - I managed to see the Rugby World Cup, a Canada vs NZ match, I even ran into Tana Umanga in Oita city!!!

2019 - 2020 was supposed to be my last year on JET, so I was frantically Job hunting. I went to the Career Fair in Osaka in early Feb/Late January 2020. I applied and got interviewed for a position in Sendai in early Jan 2020. In the end though - the Rona hit. We started hearing whispers of it around the end of 2019, then the cruise boats happened, and then Japan refused to cancel the Olympics...every holiday season there is a new wave of infections, my nurse friends in Tokyo are struggling....my teacher friends in more populous areas of Japan are struggling…

JET couldn't get new ALTs for 2020-2021, I took the extra year when it was eventually offered, as the one job I had managed to get a serious offer for was hesitating because with the rona setting in, things were uncertain. There was a lot of time spent adjusting to the new rules surrounding what we could do in class with the kids as well as textbook change. Schools shut on and off during the spring months.

I also got a reminder of my mortality mid May with an unrelated illness which is still smacking me around a bit - stress/age, it does things to the human body it has no right to. It's only been in the last three months I’ve been able to exercise like I used to, I’ve put on a bunch of weight I can't shrug off (one part medication, another part diet) My relationship with food needs to change, and I really need a kitchen that allows me for more than one pan meals. I also need to figure out what to do with a left leg that is in constant pain from the knee down and a heart that misses beats when stressed out (mentally and physically…).

My apartment also got flooded by the guy upstairs at one point, I spent most of late February/early March living in a hotel while my walls and floor got redone - I think this was one of the things that really stressed me out and kicked my anxiety right up a notch, it was right when things were getting REALLY bad with rona-chan in Hokkaido and schools were shutting down here as it was filtering into the prefecture and so Japan closed schools for the first time…

Classes in covid times have been weird. We’ve been wearing facemasks full time since the early stages of the pandemic (March 2020) - so I admit that I get a bit pissed off seeing both Americans and New Zealanders back home bitching about just having to start wearing them full time in public. I have asthma and have been suffering with the things on during the 30*C plus with high 90s humidity summers. Teachers were offered vaccines late July 2021, just days before the Olympics were open - and I finished my two shots in the middle of August. But the overall distribution and take up of the jab has been slow. As mentioned above, we can't play a lot of the games we used to play with kids in classes anymore, and a lot of the activities outlined in the textbook curriculum need to be adjusted too, so we’ve had to be creative. We use hand sanitizer a lot more too. One of the things I miss the most though, is eating lunch with the kids.

Socially from summer 2020 - now 2021 we played a lot of DnD and board games, both online and in person when we could. There were no new ALTs again for the 2021-2022 JET year, and those of us who were in 6th year were offered a 7th. Four out of six of us took it. As a whole we’re down from a peak of 38 ALTs for Junior High and Elementary school to 22 for now. We hopefully will get a new person at the end of September, and 4 more in November. Which will bring us to 27. This has led to ANOTHER round of school shuffles.

Summer vacation has been weird the last two years. With rona-chan, we haven’t really been able to travel. All the summer festivals (all the Autumn and Winter ones too!) have been cancelled, so the changing of seasons just feels, wrong. I dunno. There is so much we all miss from pre-rona-chan, and so much that doesn’t happen that makes this just feel like one long long unending year of sadness, coldness, raininess, unbearable heat and repeat. I’m tired. Time is going so fast, but so.dang.slow.

I lost my favorite school (AGAIN GDI!!!) and gained the school I taught a semester at in 2019....I had my first day there on Wednesday. Schools actually started back on September 1st so there was some drama as the BoE didn’t communicate fast enough about our school changes. We legit got told on the 27th of August (on a Friday) our schools were changing effective September 1st, but somehow some of our schools found out on the Monday 30th August. In July we were told we would be changing schools at the end of September, so.a lot of ALTs and schools were left short changed, not having opportunities to say goodbye to co-workers or students/having their planning for the semester more or less thrown out the window too. I love my job. I really dislike the way the BoE treats us, the Japanese assistant language teachers and our schools.

The new school I have is used to having an ALT there twice a week, who plans all the lessons and executes them. I’m at three elementary schools. I'm only at each once a week, I want to plan, but being that I miss an entire lesson in between visits, it's going to be difficult to do so. Not impossible, but being that I'm already doing it for two other schools, who are at two different places in the textbook ah…….. From what I have talked to my new supervisor about though, it sounds like the teachers have taken on more of the lesson planning and I'll be able to contribute ideas when I'm there. I just want to and wish I could do more without being confused all the time. (This is all usually done in my second language too, not in English so extra levels of confusion and miscommunication abound).

I feel like this at my JHS too a lot of the time. I want to contribute more, but even with constant communication with my main in school supervisor (who is a badass and pretty much on the same page about everything with me) I still feel about as useful as tits on a bull. Especially now that classes have been cancelled and or shortened, there's less time to do stuff. Any game or activity I plan is usually cut in favor of making up time in the textbook. When I'm in class, I'm back to being a tape recorder, the fun police and general nuisance.　

Also in the last week...my two of my schools were shut due to students testing positive for the rona. This is the second time my schools have had a scare in the last 8 months. And by shut, I mean the students were all at home, but the teachers all had to come into the office. Because why not I guess….. I mean, the cases increasing is really not unexpected with the amount of people who were travelling over obon and the increase of cases due to the Olympics/Japan being slow on vaccinating/delta being the dominant strain/Japan's leaders doing relatively little except asking shops and restaurants to limit people coming in at one time and closing before 8pm. I know my schools weren't the only one shut either - but still High Schools were having their sports days this week. I kept on seeing groups of kids hanging in the park after, so that was a little bit nerve wracking.

It's just frustrating - we’ve been on half days to “minimize the risk of infection” for kids and teachers, as if only being at school from 8am through to 1pm is going to reduce the risk. My schools have only just started testing out Microsoft teams and Zoom lesson equipment. Thankfully our school’s run in this time was contained real quick, the family was super good about informing us when they got their results back, and the fact they needed to be tested. The homeroom teacher and the students from the same class were the only ones tested, and they all came back clear, which was nice. But the information came back so SLOW.

I’m a little irritated because I found out on Wednesday night what was going on, and even if I am vaccinated, I am super worried that I will end up being the covid monkey due to being at different schools three days out of five. I think other than being worried that I will catch it myself and get real sick, my biggest fear is that I will be protected from bad symptoms from the vaccine, but still be able to pass it onto some of my more vulnerable friends and students. The whole thing is a mess.

Other than Covid and BoE drama, life is good. I’ve had a couple of other big changes - both fantastic and not so great, but yeah. I have my health (and health insurance!) for now. I have a job, for now. I have a sense of existential dread for the next 12 months, but we’ll see where we end up. Life post JET is going to be way less cushy and I am TERRIFIED. I mean, I have a BA in Eng/Ling and no idea what to do with it…..because I am NOT suited for academia.

TLDR: Love my job. Don’t like the system. What is life? Future scary.

#life on JET #blog post #life in Japan #jet programme #jet program

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swearwolf-writes · 4 years ago

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Teen Wolf 2020

it’s 2020 and corona is a bitch :) the wolves might not be able to get sick but they still wear their masks bcs they could still be carriers so *clears throat* WEAR YOUR MASKS Y’ALL!! this is very much a no one dies/everybody lives au :)

[CROSSPOSTED ON: AO3]

Scott McCall - age 26

this cute nerd. he studied veterinary medicine which takes about 4 years so he graduated in 2017 and works as Deaton’s partner at the Beacon Hills Animal Clinic. he’s dating Isaac (bcs he came back from France with Argent, remember) and Kira (she came back from the Skinwalkers in 2019 and has a proper grasp on her powers). sorry scalia shippers but it’s not really my thing-

Stiles Stilinski - age 26

NERD. anywho- FBI dork became an agent in 2019 whoo and lives in DC with Lydia, Derek and Braeden. he’s dating Lydia and Derek and things are pretty chill - he yells at arseholes who refuse to wear their masks bcs ‘it’s uncomfortable :(’ like bite me karen no one cares

Derek Hale - age 32

grumpy sourwolf actually knows how to smile!! who knew- he lives in DC with Stiles, Lydia and Braeden most of the time but he and Braeden travel often to fight butthead hunters who need to mind their own business. he’s dating Stiles and he and Braeden are engaged - it’s cute and they’re being dorks about it. he likes to complain that they’d be married by now if it wasn’t for freakin covid

Lydia Martin - age 26

your local genius banshee~ 🥰 still awesome, still a harbinger of death - so yk, the usual. bcs she had extra credits she started as a junior studying maths and graduates in 2016!! 🎉🎉 she moved to DC after she got some money together while working as a tutor - the quartet splits rent (but usually it’s just Stiles and Lydia splitting it bcs the other two don’t technically have jobs and yk Derek is an unsub and Stiles is in the FBI which Lydia finds hilarious). she teaches adults in the local community college and helps supernatural folk on the dl - she runs a grief counselling service at the same place for people who’ve lost someone. she’s also trying to get a degree to become a high school maths teacher and it’s a lot but she’s got it handled.

Allison Argent - 24

accidentally brought back from the dead by the Dread Doctors. everyone could not stop crying bcs she’s back baby!! she died in 2011 age 17 and came back in 2012 so she wasn’t dead long thankfully - wanted to kill Theo bcs he messed with her pack even he did bring her back. she’s a chimera now lads- she needed a kidney transplant when she was young which was why she was kept away from the family business. she was a werewolf-werejaguar chimera like Hayden but stayed a chimera. Chris and Isaac stayed home and bcs she and Isaac never actually broke up, they kept dating - she found it funny that Isaac and Scott were dating at this point,, meanwhile they were panicking wildly :) she went back to school and said she wasn’t dead, just in the hospital for a really long time. she joined Liam’s year and again, wanted to very badly throw hands when she found out about Monroe- she’s the coolest, like she has claws and bow and arrows

Malia Tate - 26

our girl went to France as promised and hooked up with plenty of hot French people *le eyebrow wiggle* she found her beau there in France and it was not a love at first sight sort of thing - she wanted to punch them in the face,, in their very pretty face- she was basically doing her own thing when she smells them, another bloody werewolf and like don’t get me wrong, she’s fond of werewolves, but bloody hell do they cause trouble. and they smell her too and it’s like ‘eh-?’ bcs werecoyotes aren’t so common as werewolves. and they’re just there in a club in Bordeaux and they’re sniffed each other out and they kinda just pause like huh- bcs they were were not expecting to see someone that pretty- but that’s not the point of course- they pretend to leave together and as soon as they’re out of sight from humans, they start fighting in an alley, as you do. it ends up with the wolf tasting the wall bcs who the hell are you- once they figure out they’re both just there to party, things chill and they see more of each other, naturally, it’s all just a big coincidence and doesn’t mean anything. and then they’re dancing and it doesn’t mean anything. and then they’re sleeping together and it doesn’t mean anything. except it does. and they don’t know when it became normal to cuddle or wake up together or have breakfast together but it just was. and when the cute werewolf (who I still don’t have a name for-) plans on moving to the next place, she comes with. the pack are happy for her and they usually road trip from place to place so when the pack comes to visit in Prague? it’s fun to say the least

Kira Yukimura - age 25

she came back from the Skinwalkers in 2019 and she and Allison became good friends. she kept going with school from home and is dating Scott. her powers are strong and when she sneezes bcs yk pollen or wtv, there’s sparks and it’s hilarious and Scott finds it adorable. she doesn’t really know what she wants to do yet and that’s cool of her

Erica Reyes - age 25

they thought she was dead- think again bitch, she slowed her heart rate down so they couldn’t hear and everyone thought she was dead - when the alpha pack got rid of her body and Allison found it, she told her to tell the others to pretend she was dead bcs of the Alpha pack - they beat the Alpha pack but she and Boyd hid with Satomi’s pack while that went down and helped generally after. she kept going with school and bcs she dipped for a while, ended in Liam’s year and eventually became a nurse in 2017. she works with Melissa McCall and joins for family dinner a lot.

Isaac Lahey - age 25

went to France with Chris Argent but kept going with his studies at Chris’ insistence. was dating dating Scott before he had to leave with Chris but they didn’t actually break up,, it was more ‘i’ll miss you :(’. came back to Beacon Hills when Chris came to help with the deadpool business and stayed bcs of Allison and Scott 💞 his studies were mostly uninterrupted and he studied law, becoming a lawyer in 2020!! so at least one good thing came of this infernal year- he wants to specialise in family law.

Vernon Boyd III - age 26

yea no, Derek didn’t mercy kill him bcs he was fine :) de nile ain’t just a river lads he went into hiding with Satomi’s pack and came back when the Alpha pack was dealt with. went back to school and ended up in Liam’s year. he joined the air force when he was 18 and finished his rotc training stuff in 2018 and it’s pretty alright - he’s a pilot but was discharged in 2019 bcs someone started with him and bcs they were a superior, he couldn’t say shit. so now he likes to wear ‘fuck the army’ and ‘fuck the air force’ shirt. he has mad respect for the people out there but the people in charge? fuck em

Aiden Steiner - age 27

he lives bitches 😎 Ethan had a silver chain on so he plugged the wound with it - it counteracted the oni poison and the chain started melting into the would (he had mild silver poisoning but he was fine). school was normal and now he’s an engineer, living in Beacon Hills. he and Ethan left for London for a while bcs that town was crazy af. while Ethan was very happy there, he missed home so went back. he got an online ordination and learnt Japanese bcs why not

Ethan Steiner-Whittemore - age 27

got married!! whoo 🎉🎉 Aiden officiated (this is 2018 btw) and it was cute. the whole pack was there and the wedding was in London bcs as quaint as Beacon Hills is

‘i’m only planning on getting married once so this is gonna be awesome’ - Jackson Whittemore, 2017

he’s dramatic but yk Ethan was a blushing mess bcs ~life partners~ he’s soft y’all. he’s a primary school teacher in London and they’re part of the South London pack.

Jackson Steiner-Whittemore - age 25

also got married!! whoo 🎉🎉 ngl he’s lowkey a trophey husband/sugar hubby bcs he’s rich af - he does business with his dad but it’s not a big workload. he and Aiden want to adopt and yk being rich will hopefully help

Theo Raeken - age 25

ah yes, the absolute nightmare bi enby returns. (i hc him with he/they pronouns ✌🏽 as you do) so he successfully gained Scott’s trust and is part of the pack - yay! he and Allison have a sort of ‘you’re a bitch’ ‘no u’ *saves each others lives* relationship at this point - it took a while for Allison to warm up to him but he did save Liam’s butt several times so,, anywho, he’s still a werewolf-werecoyote chimera and he’s cool with it. he went to an online school and got his high school diploma - Liam then snuck him into the school and he signed the bookshelf bcs yea he didn’t graduate there but he did go there and now he’s graduated so yay. speaking of, he and Liam are dating, yea ik we been knew. they started dating in 2014 and Theo now works waiting tables at a local restaurants bcs he lives with Liam and his parents (you best bet that when they found out he was living in his car, they made him move in so he pays rent, not at their request but his). that was till 2017 and they moved out into an apartment together. Theo chips in on rent but it usually ends up being split 60:40 (Liam: Theo) so he cooks and cleans a lot,,, mainly bcs Liam can’t cook and does laundry like a maniac-

Liam Dunbar - age 24

this werepup is just as chaotic as always - he cannot be trusted with laundry bcs he doesn’t split colours from whites :) honestly it makes me wanna cry a lil bcs he can’t even fry eggs either- he has Theo to cook for him tho so that’s all good. he’s a history tutor for the high school students bcs he likes history and he knows the pain of high school- *shudder* he got an online Spanish and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) degree and is now teaching at Beacon Hills High but yk his first year teaching is all online bcs 2020-

Mason Hewitt - age 23

he’s Emissary to the pack when they don’t have Deaton *wipes tear* he’s all grown up- he went to UCLA and majored in biophysics and minored in LGBTQ studies (graduated 2017). he lived on campus (kept the bat next to his bed lmao) and videochatted with Liam almost everyday - he would visit almost every weekend even tho it’s a 6 and half drive but hey. he got an apartment near the uni where he and Corey lived after he graduated. they’ve been engaged since 2018 (it was actually the day after the Steiner-Whittemore wedding). he’s helping work on a new drug delivery system and they moved closer to Beacon Hills (Sacramento)

Corey Bryant - age 24

he also went UCLA, studying comparative literature and LGBTQ studies, and lived on campus (for 3 years before moving in with Mason in 2017) before graduating in 2018. they’re engaged and moved to Sacramento. he’s writing a novel that will thankfully have nothing to do with their confusing ass lives

Cora Hale - age 28

lesbian queen *bows* still part of her pack in Ecuador, South America - she’s got a lady lover who I call Rosa (affectionately nicknamed Rosalita). they met when she first got there age 12 (Rosa being 13 at the time). Rosa taught her Spanish and made her feel like part of the pack - after all the Alpha pack stuff, when she went back with Derek and Peter, she didn’t realise how much she’d missed them- how much she’d missed her. Derek asks if that’s her girlfriend and she’s like ‘wha- o.o’ and Rosa just goes ‘yup - nice to finally meet you guys’. she still visits DC to see Derek and Beacon Hills to see Erica and Isaac. even tho she lives in a different continent, Peter still looks out for her, sending anonymous donations in Talia’s name to the areas surrounding her pack’s territory

Brett Talbot - 24

*singsongs* ~he did not die~ the car swerved out of the way and the pack took him to Deaton who burnt the poison out of him (it was a long and painful process but he’s fine y’all). he’s the new lacrosse coach at Devenford Prep and he and Liam have a (mostly) friendly rivalry :) he’s a single pringle not bcs of lack of dates but just bcs he hasn’t found the one yet

Lorilee Rohr - age 22

also did not die :) she finished high school (2015) and went on to studying at UC Berkeley (art practice and theatre and performance studies, major and minor), graduating in 2018. she and Brett moved once he reached age 18. she makes and sells art from home

Nolan Holloway - age 25

after proving himself, same as Theo, he was eventually accepted into the pack. he and Gabe were dating and that’s that so he did mourn him for a long while. he works with hunters on the dl, trying to stop them hunting the supernaturals - he’s flipped 23 away from the dark side by 2020. he and Liam are friends which took a while but Nolan has his back (like there was that one time someone from the lacrosse team said they weren’t gonna ‘follow some mongrel’ so he reminded them that Liam was co-captain and if they didn’t wanna follow him, they could kindly fuck off :)) he’s a simp and has a raging crush on Brett like me too bruh

~the end~ for now

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fortheloveofluxuryxo · 5 years ago

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How to Navigate the World of Online ESL

Written by Gina Gainous

The purpose of this article is to share detailed information about the most popular online ESL companies, along with some of my personal experiences and anecdotes from other teachers I’ve come across in Facebooks groups and teaching blogs. Before we get started, I’ll give a small self introduction. I’m a biracial woman from the United States with a Bachelor’s Degree in English as a Second Language Education (K-12) and my TESOL certificate. I worked in various schools in my hometown and abroad for the first two years of my career. Nowadays, I work 100% remotely for a company called Liulishuo based in Beijing, China. To begin, I’ll cover some of the basics.

Peak Hours If the company is based in China, they will expect you to work peak hours:

6-9 PM Monday through Friday, Beijing Standard Time

9AM-10PM Saturday and Sunday, Beijing Standard Time

Depending on where you reside, this might mean working early mornings. Currently, I reside on the west coast, and I typically teach from 5AM-8AM on weekdays. Make sure to calculate the time difference before applying. These hours aren’t for everyone, especially if you’re not a morning person. Companies based outside of China will offer afternoon and evening classes, but since they’re smaller you may not get that many bookings. The pay is usually lower as well.

Students Children: Most companies you’ll come across only offer classes with children, who are usually between the ages of 5-14. You may have the option of only teaching older children in middle and high school, but if you’re open to younger students you’ll have many more options. Adults: Some companies offer adult classes, if you’re not interested in teaching children. However, the pay is usually lower.

Salary Scale Base pay: This is the rate of pay you’re guaranteed. Most Chinese companies start their base pay between $15-$18. Companies located in other countries, like Russia or Spain, will have a much lower base pay (between $9-13 per hour) and usually won’t offer any bonus pay. Bonus pay: This is what you’ll see in most advertisements - “Up to $22.00 per hour!” - and depends on a number of factors. Some companies will give you a booking bonus or an attendance bonus. For example, if you teach 100 or so more classes a month, they’ll pay you an additional $2.00 per hour. They may also pay a $2.00 bonus if you open slots during peak hours. So if your base pay is $18, adding the extra $4 will bring your total pay to $22.00/hour. Buyout pay: Very few companies offer this pay structure, but if you’re lucky you might be able to score a contract. Basically, the company will pay you just for keeping your slots open, even if they aren’t booked. Sometimes it’s just a portion, sometimes it’s the whole salary. However, this usually means base pay is fairly low and they may not offer additional bonus pay. In the past, Gogo Kid and DaDaABC used to offer this as a perk, but to my knowledge they changed their contracts last year. Current teachers have confirmed this in 2020.

Payment Methods Bank transfer: This is the method I recommend the most, if the company provides it as an option. There are less fees with bank transfer and they are deposited directly into your account on payday. Paypal: The most popular method of payment. Usually involves both a conversion fee and an instant transfer fee, which add up after a while.

Class Types: Private classes (1 to 1): Teachers instruct one student. These are usually 25 minutes long. Some companies, such as SayABC, have 40 or 50 minute long classes. Small group classes (between 3-4 students): Teachers instruct a small group of students. Again, these classes are usually 25 minutes long. Larger group classes (6 or more students): Some companies offer larger group classes. In this case, they’ll expect you to stand up and will project your webcam in a classroom. These classes usually require a teacher’s assistant who is actually present in the room to help with classroom management.

Important things to note: 1. A lot of companies will provide the lessons for you, but they’ll expect you to have your own class materials. Things like whiteboards, markers, letter cut outs, puppets, dolls, toys, models, and more. Keep in mind, teachers can only write off $100 from their taxes if they pay for materials out of pocket, so be careful of your budget. 2. A revolving door is oftentimes a red flag. If you notice that a specific company is always hiring or posting ads, that’s not a good sign. It either means they have too many teachers and not enough students so booking slots stay empty, or that their teachers are constantly quitting. Which leads me to my next point... 3. Many online teachers have turned to recruiting. As recruiters, their companies will pay them a bonus based on how many people were hired after using their affiliate link to apply, and if those applicants teach enough classes. They are responsible for helping their recruits through the interview process, giving them advice for how to pass the assessments, and getting them familiar with the software. However, be wary of this because some people who have signed up via recruiter link have reported their mentors disappearing soon afterwards. This is not meant to be accusatory, but it is a common occurrence as observed on many Facebook Online ESL Teaching groups. 4. Remember, if the offer sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Get all the details, in words you can understand, before signing the contract and making the commitment. 5. Most companies only hire what they consider to be “Native English Speakers”. These are people who hold a passport from the following countries: The United States, The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand [and sometimes South Africa]. This means that even if you speak English perfectly and have the right credentials, if your passport is from a country not listed above then you are considered a Non-Native English Speaker. There are some companies that hire NNES, but they will offer a significantly lower base pay. (Note: many of the bigger companies only hire people from the United States or Canada. A list of companies that hire Non-Native English Speakers can be found at the end of this article.) 6. Most companies only hire those with Bachelor Degrees. It’s preferred that your degree relates to Education or Child Development, but most of the time they’ll accept anything. You may also need a TEFL or TESOL certificate as well, along with some teaching experience. You can sign up for a short course on Groupon. A few of them cost less than $10. (There are some companies that hire without a degree, which are listed at the end of this article.) 7. You are considered an Independent Contractor, NOT an employee. You do not have the same protections you might be used to at a brick and mortar job. This means that these companies can fire you for any reason, or without a reason, at any time. On the other hand, this also means you can also quit for any reason at any time. However, keep in mind that many companies have been known to withhold the final paycheck if this occurs, and there’s not much you can do about it since they’re based in another country and don’t adhere to your country’s laws. It’s best not to burn bridges. 8. A lot of the bigger and popular online ESL companies are geared towards young students between the ages of 5-14 years old. They’ll want to see high energy, the use of props, and general silliness, hence why online educators have coined the term “edutainer”. You must ask yourself if your personality fits this kind of job, because they will expect you to perform in this way during your interview and also in your classes.

Companies to avoid (and why): VIPKid - suspected of data mining, new teachers wait months before getting regular bookings, mixed success with POC teachers, “edutainers” Likeshuo - racist policies, has been seen advertising for white teachers only Acadsoc - low base pay, non-communicative staff, low quality lesson plans iTutorGroup/51Talk - teachers are rated by students and if they get one low rating for a class they can be fired, unresponsive IT staff, inflexible time off policy, harsh cancellation policy Magic Ears - long training process, slow bookings for new teachers, you MUST teach in their style or else you won’t get bookings

Companies I’ve worked for and liked: Liulishuo - communicative staff, offer professional development, offer buyout schedule, hiring freezes, good quality lesson plans, quick and reliable payment each month, responsive IT team Golden Voice English - high quality lesson plans, good students, communicative staff, quick and reliable payment each month, responsive IT team

Companies I’ve worked for and didn’t like: Micro Language - late pay, wouldn’t put black people/POC in their new program despite being top tutors, poor quality lessons with grammar and spelling errors, non-communicative staff, made multiple changes to teaching contracts without input from teachers DaDaABC - offered low base pay, unfair time off policy, removed many of the perks from their new contracts Cambly - difficult students, women often experience sexual harassment from male students, POC teachers have reported racial microaggressions from students, no structured format, pay is low, lots of student no shows or last minute cancellations with no penalty for students

Companies that only hire from The United States/Canada/UK: QKids (and you MUST be based in The US or Canada) Golden Voice English VIPKids English First (US/UK) OpenEnglish

Companies that hire WITHOUT a degree: Magic Ears Cambly Palfish OpenEnglish LatinHire Preply Verbling Learnship Acadsoc SkimaTalk Italki Learnlight 31ABC (but they require teaching experience)

Companies that hire Non-Native English Speakers: Preply Voxy (must have some college credits) Learnship Yiyi English LatinHire

Companies that offer adult-only classes: Huajing Liulishuo English First Learnlight Italki Cambly OpenEnglish

To wrap things up, I’ll share a few more points to look out for in your job search. GREEN FLAGS - They implement hiring freezes so they don’t overhire teachers. Offers professional development opportunities. Quick responses from IT. Quick responses from HR. RED FLAGS - Spam-like advertisements. Lots of recruiter links on Facebook posts or other websites. I hope this guide helps you find the perfect position! ~~~~~

Gina Gainous is a state licensed ESL teacher that hails from the midwestern United States. She can be reached for further questions or inquiries at [email protected].

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sophiasblabs · 5 years ago

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It’s been a while.

14th of June, 2020

It's been months since the last time I updated this blog. This year was tough to say the least. I honestly can't believe we're halfway through 2020 already. But my family and I are well and safe. I hope yours are too.

So here's a little update about my life lately.

Family. Our youngest sister's birthday is tomorrow! The baby I once chased to change her diapers is now turning 16. I'm so happy seeing her bloom into a beautiful and cheerful young lady. She's taller and bigger than me but she's still a baby in our eyes; our big baby. Hehe! Papa's been having stomach issues these past few weeks but thankfully, we were able to see a doctor and buy his medicine.

College. The quarantine started on March 15. And from March to May, I was busy finishing school requirements. Our semester ended last May and I'm now an incoming third-year college student. Fun fact, I was barely 16 when I started this blog and now, I'm turning 21 in a few months. Time flies.

Self-Investment. During the first week of June, I took a 120-hour TESOL Certification Course. A TESOL Certificate is required by most international universities/ESL companies if you want to work as an English teacher/tutor. I was able to finish the course in less than a week and I also passed the exam with a 97% rating! I am now TESOL Certified! Yay! I'm planning on taking up courses to prepare for the IELTS next. Aside from this, I also attended multiple webinars to learn new skills and knowledge related to my field which is Education. Many of you may not know but I'm taking up BSEd in college and I previously worked as an Online English Tutor.

Work. I also started looking for home-based part-time jobs. I've already had some interviews and I have more scheduled in the coming weeks. Some have already sent their offers but I want to weigh my options first before confirming.

I sincerely hope that all of you are safe and doing well this quarantine. Our country is not in its best state but let's all try to be better people and uplift each other during these trying times.

Stay indoors and God bless, everyone!

#blabs #family #college #self-investment #work

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5 Ideas for Teaching Students the Most Important Skill They’ll Need

Every teacher I know understands it’s not the 3R’s or science or even history that provides fundamental skills for thriving in life. If you doubt that, read the quote below from a Harvard professor about the half-life of learned skills. No, it’s something more basic, more intuitive, and happens to be the holy grail of teacher goals for students.

Learn how to learn

Here’s how to make this easy, from an Ask a Tech Teacher contributor:

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In the past, a university degree provided a majority of graduates with the skills they needed to succeed in their chosen careers. In the 2020s, this is no longer the case. Today, according to research conducted by Harvard Business Review and Deloitte, a college degree typically provides students with skills that have a half-life of only 5 years.

That means it won’t be long before even college-educated employees will need to upskill or retrain to remain employable.

The main takeaway: Learning how to learn is the single most important skill that our students will need to master if they hope to participate meaningfully in the fast-paced, technology-driven workplace of the future.

Yet many students do not have a solid understanding of how to effectively go about the process of upskilling. According to research published in the Instructional Science journal, individual students experience a broad variety of differentiation in their understanding of how to undertake the learning process. Sadly, it is possible for some students to make it all the way through twelfth grade without ever fully grasping the basics of how to learn.

In hindsight, it’s easy to see how this could happen. As educators, we are each tasked with teaching our students a specific body of knowledge. The knowledge typically encompasses highly focused topics such as reading or math or biology. We know our students will be tested on the knowledge that we’ve been trusted to impart to them. Our livelihoods directly depend on whether or not they will excel at the resulting tests. There isn’t room in our workdays to deviate far from the material that will be covered on the tests.

Rarely, it seems, is anybody ever specifically tasked with teaching students a step-by-step course in how to learn. Yet, collectively, if we fail to teach them this skill, we ultimately fail in our mission to equip our students with the skills they’ll need to succeed in their careers — and also to succeed as functioning members of a technologically advanced society.

How, then, can we take action to teach our students how to learn? The following are five ideas we might each have the opportunity to implement as we approach the task of teaching our everyday curriculum to our students:

1. Teach Students to Embrace Technology and Remote Learning

In the 1450s, the popularization of the printing press revolutionized the processes of teaching and learning. In the 1990s, the popularization of the internet was similarly revolutionary. Nowadays, mobile technologies are shaping up to be just as ground-breaking. If today’s students hope to be able to tap into all the educational opportunities available to them, they will need to have an understanding of how to utilize these technologies.

Ask a Tech Teacher offers many resources for teachers who wish to introduce students to education technologies in an age-appropriate way. If this is an area where you need help, the following pages will get you started:

Start Here: Introductory pages

Free lesson plans for helping teachers integrate technology into their digital classrooms.

Tech ed resources – online classes

How to build lifelong learners

At times, remote learning can be just as confusing for parents and teachers as it is for students. Our site is designed to provide resources for helping everyone get past the confusing parts as quickly as possible. If you have comments or questions along the way, our message board is a helpful resource for interacting with other educators to get the answers you need.

2. Share Useful Learning Resources Other Than College and University

There are many resources available to students who wish to continue their education after high school. Some of these courses are offered through the university system, but many others are made available outside of traditional academia.

In the recent past, many parents and educators have been pushing students to attend college – which, of course, is a path that offers students considerable long-term benefits. However, it would also be beneficial for these authority figures to make students aware of the countless additional resources that are available to them outside of traditional academia.

Even students who will attend college should ideally be made aware of these resources. They will likely prove to be helpful in the future at times when students’ university-acquired skills inevitably become outdated. Continual upskilling has now become an ongoing necessity, even for university graduates.

The following are a few examples of learning resources that are available for ongoing education outside of high school and university:

Certification Programs – Certification programs are typically training programs that are offered by tech companies or other organizations outside of traditional academia. For example, Microsoft offers certification programs to professionals who wish to gain mastery of one or more of their varied software products.

After completion of a certification program, the certificate holder may then have an advantage when seeking employment from organizations who want to interview candidates with those specific software skills; the certification gives them an endorsement directly from the company who manufactures the software.

Certifications aren’t just for tech professionals; they are available for workers in a variety of specializations including human resources, management and many other niches.

Massive Open Online Courses (Sometimes referred to as MOOCs) – MOOCs are readily available courses that are presented online. Frequently, they are video-based college-level courses offered by their creators at either a discounted price or for free. They lack many of the typical hurdles to college course enrollment such as class size limits and the need for acceptance by a university admissions committee.

MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn. This is because they don’t usually offer opportunities for face-to-face discussion, and they also tend to discourage literacy. Nevertheless, they do have their uses. Arguably, they are best used for learning course material in subjects like math and coding where literacy skills and class discussions aren’t typically core objectives of the course material.

MOOCs are available from a variety of sources including Coursera, edX and individual participating universities.

Khan Academy – Khan academy is a free resource for learning a variety of subject material online including math, grammar, computing and many other subjects. Many homeschoolers take advantage of these materials for educating their school-age children.

Duolingo – If your students want to learn any of the world’s major languages, Duolingo offers resources that they would be likely to find helpful.

Global Resources – It is becoming increasingly important for students to embrace diversity and multiculturalism in their learning. You can empower your students to embrace diverse perspectives by encouraging them to seek out resources from countries other than their own.

Thanks to the availability of the internet and free translation software, your students can easily access books, internet articles and even academic courses and degree programs from other countries. One example: In the past, your students probably wouldn’t have easily been able to enroll in a course about aboriginal perspectives without traveling to Australia; however, there is a course available on that topic that is now available to anyone, from anywhere in the world.

It isn’t necessary for your students to excel at a foreign language to make use of English-language resources from Canada, Australia, the UK and South Africa. These can all provide helpful insights for English-speaking students from the United States.

One specific example of where these resources could be useful is if you have students who aspire to be educators at various international schools. Of course, students have the option to get educated in their home country, but it could also be helpful for them to seek perspectives from other countries, too.

In particular, they’ll find a variety of wonderful resources available from Australia, a country which has made a concerted effort to attract international students to its academic institutions. Some available resources from Australia include free and paid teachers’ aide courses; TESOL diploma programs; and countless university bachelor’s and master’s degree programs that are currently being taught online to an intentionally diverse audience of students from all over the globe.

English-speaking students need not be limited to consuming materials that are made available in English. Those taught in foreign languages can give students insights they would be unlikely to acquire in their home country. This can also provide them with motivation for practicing the skills they’ve acquired in their Spanish, French or other foreign language classes.

3. Demonstrate the Process of Reading With a Highlighter

There are some strategies for retaining information that are so easy, and seemingly so obvious, that they hardly seem worth pointing out. One of them is the technique of reading the assigned course material once through, and then returning to it a second time with a highlighter in hand to mark the most important points.

Experts at the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have pointed out that this strategy can help students to perform significantly better on their tests.

Yes, this simple technique probably seems totally obvious to you as an educator; but if nobody has taught it to your students yet, it most likely isn’t obvious to them. This one is so quick and easy to pass on that it’s a no-brainer to take a few moments in the classroom to demonstrate it for your students.

4. Teach Students to Make Flash Cards

You’re no doubt already aware that when rote memorization is needed for learning new material, the humble flash card is one of the quickest and most effective methods for mastering it.

This is because flash cards stimulate the brain’s mechanisms for active recall. Every time a student uses a flash card, the engagement process helps to create improved neural connections that reinforce the student’s memory of the information.

Do your students know this? They are most likely not aware of how to use flash cards unless someone has taught them how to do it. You’ll want to consider demonstrating the use of flash cards to them at the time they’re learning simple math like multiplication, division, or foreign language vocabulary words.

It’s also helpful to share with them a simple explanation of why flash cards are effective. You can point out that flash cards are useful for learning a variety of concepts and encourage them to continue using flash cards any time they want to memorize information quickly.

5. Encourage Students to Learn Kinesthetically

People don’t always retain what they read; but, most people do retain the concepts they’ve learned when they’ve been an active participant in the learning process.

So, whenever possible, break up long lectures to incorporate activities that compel students to engage with the content you’re teaching. Encourage them to physically, actively participate in the learning process rather than just passively taking in information.

For example, you could teach them how to create graphs or diagrams that illustrate the concepts they’ve learned. It’s helpful to further explain to them that they can use the diagramming skills you’re teaching them at any time they wish to solidify their understanding of numerical concepts.

Considering that “big data” is becoming a cornerstone of corporate business strategy in virtually every industry, data literacy is now a critically important skill for success in the workplace. Graphing and diagramming, which contribute to data literacy, can also become a useful component of the lifelong learning process.

It’s also helpful to extend the learning process beyond actual class time. If you’re able to take students on a related field trip, perhaps to an aquarium, science museum or children’s museum that offers relevant interactive exhibits, those experiences could be helpful for further solidifying the information they’re learning. At the same time, you can encourage them to perpetually seek out activities that will help them to expand their horizons beyond their everyday experiences in the classroom – or, later, the workplace.

It’s Worth Considering Your Own Unique Strategies for Teaching Your Students How to Learn

There are countless other ways you could approach the task of teaching your students how to learn and sharing with them the resources they’ll need for teaching themselves. These 5 ideas only begin to scratch the surface of what is possible. If any of these suggestions could be easily implemented in your classroom, they’re likely to be beneficial for your students.

As an educator, you’re already an expert on the topic of learning – and, no doubt, you’ve already mastered a wealth of useful techniques for teaching yourself new things. Once you start pondering the importance of empowering your students to learn how to learn, you’ll no doubt have your own ideas on what you could do to motivate and inspire them to take charge of their own learning activities. Overall, one of the most important things you can do is to help them understand that they will need to use the educational resources you and your colleagues are sharing with them to continue teaching themselves long after they have graduated from school.

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23 Best Online Tutoring Jobs Hiring in 2020 (Earn $20 to $100+/Hour)

Are you looking to make a little extra money or launch work at home career?

Online tutoring is rapidly becoming one of the most popular side hustles and work from home jobs. Recent surveys show that online tutors can make between $14 to $25/hr, and tutors with more experience can make upwards of 60+/hr.

Online tutoring is an excellent way to make an extra $1000/mo or more, so its no wonder the online tutoring business is booming. However, with so many companies popping up to fill the demand for tutors, it can be hard to find to tell which companies are legitimate. Unfortunately, there are a lot of scammers in work at home space.

In this guide, we will help you find the best legitimate online tutoring jobs for 2019, make a case for why tutoring should be your next side hustle, and provide you with valuable resources to ensure you become a work at home success.

23 Top Online Tutoring Jobs Hiring in 2020

1. VIPKid

Description: VIPKid allows you to teach English to children from other countries. The best part is that you can do this from the comfort of your home. With the option to train as often or as little as you want, VIPKid tops the list of most flexible tutoring from home opportunities.

Required Qualifications: To teach for VIPKid, you must be a current resident of the US or Canada. You must also have a Bachelors's degree in any field. Finally, you must have access to a working laptop or desktop with high-speed Internet. If you have previous teaching experience, this is a bonus.

Hourly Earning Potential: Up to $22/hour

Subjects Offered: English tutoring is the main focus of VIPKid.

VIPKID needs thousands of work-from-home teacher’s to teach English online to kids in China. This is an amazing work-from-home opportunity – and don’t worry, users do not need to know any foreign language or have formal teaching experience. Teachers can earn as much as $22/hour working on the VIPKID platform.

2. EF Teach Online

Description: EF Teach Online provides English lessons for 5 to 6 students at a time. English lessons can range from 20 to 45 minutes and provide access to learning materials and custom content that match their learning needs.

Required Qualifications: Teachers must be proficient in English, have a college or university degree, be computer proficient, and have an engaging online presence. If you have past teaching experience, this may be a good fit for you.

Hourly Earning Potential: Rates may vary by position.

Subjects Offered: English

Teachers with EF enjoy the ability to choose their own work-from-home schedule, ability to bring their own teaching style to our custom-designed classroom and receive local, US and UK-based support and payment. Teachers with EF earn up to $20 per hour.

3. Teach Part-Time

Teach Part-Time was created to connect qualified readers from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom with real online English teaching opportunities from legitimate EdTech firms.

If you hold a Bachelor's degree, you can earn $14-25/hr (USD) to teach kids English online from home. Subscribe for job alerts, teacher tips & more ways to make money.

4. QKids

Description: QKids is another opportunity to teach students the English language. QKids’ screening process is unique to other platforms. This tutoring service requires video demos of an applicant’s teaching techniques.

Required Qualifications: Those who wish to apply to teach with QKids must have a Bachelor’s Degree. The organization also has a preference for those who have an English Teaching Certificate (such as the TESOL, TEFL, CELTA, ESL). Additionally, candidates must be available for a minimum of 6 hours weekly and work for a 6-month contract period.

Hourly Earning Potential: Up to $16-$20/hour

Subjects Offered: Tutors must teach English to non-speakers.

5. Preply

Description: Preply is a language learning service. This service offers individuals the opportunity to teach a foreign language to students who are not fluent. Through reviews from current students and an online profile, tutors can promote their services to new students.

Required Qualifications: Tutors do not need to have any specific qualifications. The website states that applicants should have a passion for teaching. The detailed application process does request particular information on a candidate’s experience or certifications.

Hourly Earning Potential: Candidates can set their hourly rate for their services. The site states that the most popular tutors make up to $550/weekly. It’s important to note that the fee for using the Preply platform is that 100% of your earnings from your first lesson with a student go to Preply.

Subjects Offered: While language tutoring is the primary offering through Preply, other topics are also available. Tutors can offer services in a variety of subjects or hobbies.

6. Magic Ears

Description: Magic Ears is an English learning platform for children, ages 4-12. Additionally, tutoring sessions may include several students at a time.

Required Qualifications: Potential tutors must undergo a multi-step hiring process. This includes undergoing training and providing a demonstration video for review. While the site does not state any other requirements, it does mention that teachers or those who have taught in the past will have hiring preference.

Hourly Earning Potential: $22-$26/hour

Subjects Offered: Tutors must teach English to non-speakers.

7. WyzAnt

Description: WyzAnt offers to tutor students of any age. Tutors create a WyzAnt profile, and students can review and select a tutor whose experience and price best fit their needs.

Required Qualifications: Tutors must be at least 18 years old and live in the United States. They must also have a valid Social Security Number. Tutors do not have to have teaching experience.

Hourly Earning Potential: WyzAnt allows tutors to establish their rates.

Subjects Offered: Over 300 Subjects, from English to Zoology.

8.Chegg

Description: Chegg offers individuals the opportunity to provide tutoring services in a lot of subject areas. Like VIPKid, your schedule can be flexible, and you can teach from anywhere. A unique quality worth noting about Chegg is that your online profile rating and reputation will assist you with gaining more clients. This enables you to increase your earning potential through positive feedback from students.

Required Qualifications: All potential hires must have previous experience as a teacher or tutor. There is a preference for those who have taught at the middle school, high school, or collegiate level. Additionally, candidates must have a Bachelors's degree and a Facebook account or email address to verify their identity. Finally, if you wish to offer services in a specific subject area, you may have to take a competency test.

Hourly Earning Potential: Up to $20/hour

Subjects Offered: Subjects include everything from Astrophysics to Voice Lessons.

9. Kaplan Test Prep Instructor

Description: While most Kaplan teachers teach in classroom settings, but Kaplan also offers opportunities for teachers to teach online. Kaplan’s online teaching program helps the student improve their test scores. Find teaching jobs online with Kaplan.

Required Qualifications: Depending on the test you are teaching, you may have a wide variety of qualifications. For example, if you want to be an MCAT prep instructor, you must be in the 90th percentile of MCAT scores, inspire highly motivated students to achieve better scores, create a safe learning space for students to enhance their testing abilities.

Hourly Earning Potential: Rates may vary by position. But it can be a great way to earn extra money.

Subjects Offered: Test prep for a wide range of standardized tests

10. Tutor.com

Description: Find plenty of online tutoring positions with Tutors.com. Whether you want to work part-time, full-time, or make extra money. From math tutoring jobs to business tutoring jobs, Tutors.com may have an online tutoring job for you.

Required Qualifications: While each tutoring position’s requirements and qualifications may vary, there are a few things you need to accomplish to become a certified tutor. You need to have a high school degree or GED, complete tutoring training, join a tutoring association, earn your tutoring certification, and get licensed (optional)

Hourly Earning Potential: You can make up to $50 an hour by teaching science, social studies, math, conventional English, and more.

Subjects Offered: Tutoring subjects vary, but some may include: math, English, science, computers, liberal arts, social studies, health, home, and more.

11. goFluent

Description: Find online English tutoring jobs with goFluent. goFluent primarily focuses on English in both one on one setting and group lessons. So, if you want to teach English online, goFluent may be right up your alley. goFluent hires native English teachers from America, Canada, British citizens, and even some individuals from the Philippines. If you want to work remotely, you may find a job with this company.

Required Qualifications: While requirements may vary, must job tend to require some form of college education, business or corporate experience, must speak English as a native language, must have a stable internet connection, must have computer and typing skills, and training experience is a plus.

Hourly Earning Potential: You can earn up to $15 an hour by teaching English online.

Subjects Offered: English

12. TutorMe

Description: Find flexible online tutoring jobs with TutorMe. Choose from over 300 subjects you can teach students. You can teach everything from calculus to python, to the piano. All you have to do is apply and meet their requirements. Then you will be connected with students and begin creating lesson plans. TutorMe is the perfect platform for finding online tutoring jobs.

Required Qualifications: To qualify you must have tutoring or teaching experience, mastery of subjects you would like to teach, be enrolled or have graduated from a college or university, and must be over 18 years old.

Hourly Earning Potential: You can earn at least $16 an hour with bonuses.

Subjects Offered: English

13. PrepNow Tutoring

Description: You can find online tutor jobs with PreNow Tutoring. Whether you want to help students prepare for their SATs or get better math grades, PreNow Tutoring may have a job for you. By using innovative technology, you can tutor children in the comforts of your own home.

Required Qualifications: To qualify, you must have at least two years of teaching or tutoring experience and a college or university degree. You must also need to composite 28 on the ACT or 650 on the SAT Math and SAT Verbal. Must also have 6 hours available during nights and weekends.

Hourly Earning Potential: Your pay may vary depending on the tutoring jobs you apply for.

Subjects Offered: SAT prep, ACT prep, math, chemistry, French, writing, Spanish, physics.

14. Study.com

Description: Study.com is an online platform that helps everyone from high school students to teaches study. From taking an online course to earning credit and degrees, study.com has you covered. Study.com is one of the many online education companies hiring. They are looking for people with teaching and education experience to create lesson plans for their platform.

Required Qualifications: Since there are many different online jobs available, they may require different qualifications. For example, the Academic Expert position requires English proficiency and expertise in science, history, social science, psychology, and humanities.

Hourly Earning Potential: Your pay may vary depending on the job you apply for.

Subjects Offered: Study.com offers a wide range of topics, course, credit, and degrees.

15. Tutapoint.com

Description: TutaPoint.com partners with tutors from around the U.S. to ensure students receive the best learning experience possible. They work with certified and retired teachers, professors, teaching assistants, and more to meet a high standard of education.

Required Qualifications: To see if you qualify, all applicants must fill out a 20-minute application. You will also need to submit a short video introduction to introduce yourself.

Hourly Earning Potential: You may make about $14 per hour.

Subjects Offered: Math, sciences, language arts, social studies, world languages, and more.

16. Homework Tutoring

Description: If you’re looking for online teach jobs, you may be in luck. Homework Tutoring helps students improve their proficiency in subjects, including biology, English, math, statistics, and more. This fast and convenient tutoring platform allows students from all over to connect with professionally trained tutors.

Required Qualifications: Currently, Homework Tutoring is looking for people to help with subjects, including engineering: history, and law.

Hourly Earning Potential: While pay is not explicitly listed on the site, you may make between $5 and $20 an hour.

Subjects Offered: Biology, chemistry, economics, electronics, English, math, statistics, physics, and programming.

17. Connections Academy

Description: Connections Academy is an online tuition-free K-12 school. Students can receive a public education right from their couch. The coursework and exams surpass national and state standards for public education. The organization also tries to find creative ways to keep students engaged.

Required Qualifications: Currently, Connections Academy has a variety of online teaching positions available. So, whether you live in New York or Ohio, you can find a remote position. Qualifications will vary depending on the job you apply for.

Hourly Earning Potential: Pay will vary depending on your qualifications and the job you apply for.

Subjects Offered: All subjects required to pass K through 12th grade.

18. Aim-for-A Tutoring

Description: Aim-for-A Tutoring is an online division of Aim Academics. As part of their organization, they offer online tutoring to the student all over the world. They also hire internationally. As a tutor, you can work part-time, full-time, or make a little extra income on the side.

Required Qualifications: Teaching certificate is a desirable trait for all applicants. They also look for those who are willing to work nights and weekends, have a computer with speakers, and stable internet connection. Also, some subjects require a digital tablet with a pen mouse.

Hourly Earning Potential: Pay will vary depending on your qualifications and the job you apply for.

Subjects Offered: Math, science, English, language arts, and other subjects

19. Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY)

Description: Johns Hopkins Center for the Talented Youth is the world leader in gifted education. They are dedicated to developing the talents and skills of the young around the world. They serve learners through their research, advocacy, and counseling and offer summer, online, international, and family programs.

Required Qualifications: If you’re interested in online employment from CTY, you can apply for their summer programs, online offerings, or another job listing. Qualification may vary by actual position.

Hourly Earning Potential: Pay will vary depending on your qualifications and the job you apply for.

Subjects Offered: Summer, online, international, and family programs

20. K12

Description: K12 provides online education for students from pre-K through 12th grade. K12 offers three main solutions for online learning, public schooling, private schooling, and supplemental courses. Students can receive support from their teachers via phone, online meetings, and on occasion in person.

Required Qualifications: Just like many other positions, K12 may have different requirements depending on the type of job you apply. For example, if you apply for the science teaching position, you need a teaching certificate, transcript, performance evaluations, state assessment data, and reference letter.

Hourly Earning Potential: Pay will vary depending on your qualifications and the job you apply for.

Subjects Offered: K through 12 courses

21. Pearson Smarthinking

Description: Pearson offers tutoring opportunities up to the Graduate level. If you’re interested in a chance with this organization, you’ll find access to all their available positions through an online job board. However, be mindful that Pearson does not limit its offerings to online tutoring. So, when searching their open jobs, you’ll want to enter in the key term “remote.”

Pearson Smarthinking offers online tutoring, writing help, and resume review. Their priority is to help students get a better education or advance in their careers.

Required Qualifications: Smarthinking is looking for online tutors with master’s degrees, PhDs, or other advanced certifications. They feel like the extra experience will help them add to their team of dynamic and diverse teachers. While it is not listed as needed, Pearson’s website boasts that most of their tutors have a Master’s degree or Ph.D. Additionally, tutors need to be available for a minimum of 8 hours/weekly.

Hourly Earning Potential: Pay will vary depending on your qualifications and the job you apply for. A recent estimate states that a Pearson tutor makes a median wage of between $11-$12 per hour.

Subjects Offered: Everything imaginable from the elementary to graduate level. More than 150 subject offerings

Alternative Online Tutor Jobs

22. Upwork

Upwork– The popular freelance job posting site, Upwork, has several listings for online tutors. Upwork is an excellent place to find less common or more technical tutoring positions, such as Physics, Economics, Architecture, and college-level courses.

23. Symposium

Symposium– Most tutoring jobs require a Bachelor's degree or even higher education. If you are looking to make some extra income and lack the credentials for some tutoring positions, Symposium could be the perfect fit. The Symposium app allows anyone with experience an opportunity to monetize their expertise via either one-to-one coaching or one-to-many.

Since Symposium allows for one-to-many presentations, it is possible to make $100/hr or more, plus tips!

Some benefits of Symposium

Work Remotely (Only requires a smartphone and internet connection)

Flexible Schedule (You set your schedule)

Part-Time (Work as much or a little as you like)

If you picked up your experience in the board room and not the classroom, Symposium is the perfect educational technology company for you.

Guide to Online Tutoring

Reasons to Consider Becoming a Tutor

If you’re burned out on your 9-5, or you’re looking for a part-time job to earn some extra money, consider becoming a tutor online. There are a plethora of reasons for you to review the opportunity, and we’ve outlined the most important ones for your consideration.

Work-Life Balance

It’s not a huge secret that the work-life balance equation has become less of a balance and more of an unequal scale that tips farther on the work side. Between longer hours, increased commute times, and required work travel, some professionals are burnt out on the whole endeavor. It’s why so many people are starting to consider legit work from home opportunities.

When it comes to work-life balance, it’s safe to assume that there will always be demands that you have to accommodate. However, when you remove some of the aspects that are within your control (such as a commute), you can create a more equally balanced scale.

Becoming an online tutor is a work from home opportunity that may be just the solution you are looking for. With flexible hours and no commute, you can regain some of the balance you’ve been looking for in your career. You can adjust your schedule to fit your family’s needs, while still generating an income. Taking the step to create a happier life for yourself, by changing your professional career, may start with becoming an online tutor.

Supplemental Income

If you’re looking for ways to increase your income, tutor jobs are an excellent option to consider. Not only is online tutoring a job you can do from home, but it’s also a gig that will enable you to make good money. The work is flexible for most of the job opportunities, which means you have the choice to make as little or as much as you want in your spare time.

If you choose to pursue the opportunity to tutor from home, you will be able to capitalize on the times you’re not at your 9-5. Adding a side hustle to your schedule may negate the whole concept of work-life balance. But, if you require reliable income, the sacrifices you’ll have to make will be worth the financial reward.

How Much Do Online Tutors Make?

If you hold a Bachelor's degree, most companies start new hires between $12-14/hr (USD). Many of the companies polled report that $20-26/hr is possible, as a tutor builds up experience. Tutors often increase their rate through referrals or teaching in-demand specialty subjects, in which case some tutors report that $50-100+/hr is possible.

Can You Make a Living as an Online Tutor?

Like most ways to make money online or earn extra money, it is possible to turn your tutoring side hustle into a full-time gig. However, before you hand in your resignation to make a full-time living as a tutor, you should build up some experience with several of the best online tutoring platforms. Teaching on several sites will help provide some stability in case of listings at one company drying up.

Reliable Employers

When you’re looking for remote jobs, it can become complicated to avoid scammers. A lot of companies that endorse they will “make you your own boss” are pyramid schemes. These are operations that will very rarely help you turn a profit.

It’s even more challenging to find a way to make money from home on a part-time basis.

Online jobs, while becoming more commonplace, are still inundated with scams and false promises. Becoming a home tutor safeguards you from these ploys. It also enables you to make the extra money from home that you need. You can establish yourself as a freelancer who works for a credible organization.

You may decide to stick with tutoring from home or branch into other fields that allow you to work remotely. In either circumstance, starting with an online tutoring company will provide you with a safe introduction to the world of virtual employment.

Qualifications to Become an Online Tutor

Every online tutoring organization is looking for something different. Some are seeking native English speakers to educate children in foreign countries. Others want to capitalize on your area of expertise to provide online tutoring for students who need help with test prep. Some want translators who can help adults sharpen their foreign language skills. Whatever the case, there are a few qualifications that seem to be in demand across the board.

College Degree

Most online tutoring organizations want you to have a college degree. A few platforms offer opportunities with no experience necessary. But, the majority of organizations are looking for educators who have a degree from a 4-year, accredited college. Some of the platforms are seeking applicants with expanded knowledge in a specific subject. For example, if you have an interest in becoming an English tutor or online English teacher, having a degree in that subject would benefit you.

Some online tutoring platforms offer their services to students in higher education if you’re interested in working at this more advanced level of tutoring than you will need either a Masters or Ph.D. in a field of your expertise to offer your services.

High-Speed Internet Connection

The second (and a very obvious) qualification is that you have a high-speed Internet connection. If you can't connect consistently with your students, you won’t be able to work at home as an online tutor. While this may require you to make an initial investment, it will be worth the price to make money online.

It may also be pertinent to note that you will need a reliable desktop or laptop computer. Some of the online platforms encourage their employees to work from anywhere. When they offer this flexibility, they do so with the understanding that you will have a working laptop and a good Wi-Fi connection. Reliability is a massive value in the online tutoring community, and you’re expected to uphold your end of the bargain.

Online Payment Capabilities

You will need an established method of accepting payment. Whether you prefer to receive compensation via PayPal, or you prefer direct deposit to your bank account, you will need to have some online method of accepting payment to work as an online tutor.

Interest & Passion

It’s easy to become caught up in the idea of a flexible schedule and a remote work opportunity. It’s important to remember that if you want to become an online tutor, you should have an interest and a passion for teaching. As is with any job, the work is not going to be easy, and you’re going to have both good and bad days.

Working with children and students can be a rewarding career path. It can also be a difficult one. Not every student will be the ideal intellectual who is eager for your help. You will need to learn techniques to assist you in working with the ones who are less passionate about their tutoring.

Make sure, before you apply to be an online tutor, that the reason you’re pursuing the opportunity is to help others. If you’re not interested in the opportunity for that foundational reason, you are setting yourself up for failure. Before you commit to working as a remote online tutor, check-in with yourself, make sure you’re doing it for the right reasons.

How to Become an Online Tutor

If we’ve convinced you to take the leap and teach online at home, there are a few simple steps you’ll need to take. First, you’ll need to find the platform that best suits your background and experience. With so many companies that promote working from anywhere as a tutor, how will you know which is the best one to pursue employment with?

We’ve taken the hard work out of this equation and completed the research for you. Keep reading to learn about the seven best online tutoring opportunities available to you. We’ll give you an overview of the qualifications required, the hourly earning potential, and a glimpse of the types of subjects offered.

Whether you’re looking for a side gig to supplement your full-time income or a new career, there is a tutoring opportunity for you, and we’ve found them!

Additional Resources to Become an Online Tutor

If you have the drive to work from home as an online tutor, but not the background and experience, there are plenty of solutions. Don’t put aside your dream of joining one of the best work from home jobs available. Put on your thinking hat, brush up your study skills, and use some of the excellent resources available. They will not only help you pursue your dreams, but they will also afford the expertise that you can use in your daily life.

Training Courses

Udemy is an online platform that offers a variety of educational courses. The site has a specific section of their website dedicated to teaching and learning. You can sharpen your skills in a subject area as well as learn techniques to become an effective tutor.

While these courses do cost money, the price is nominal in comparison to the income you can generate when you become an online tutor.

Public Speaking Assistance

If you feel like you freeze up in front of the camera, you’re not alone. Many people suffer from an inability to “perform” once they realize they’re in front of an audience. Even the most accomplished English speakers sometimes find they lose their ability to speak and formulate coherent sentences.

YouTube is a great resource to use to help you brush up on your public speaking skills. There are a ton of video tutorials that will teach you to speak with confidence. There are exercises you can incorporate into your daily routine that will prepare you for your onscreen debut.

Expanding Online Knowledge

One area we’ve failed to address is the computerized aspect of online tutoring. Even if your focus is to become an English tutor to students who use English as their second language, you will have to have an excellent working knowledge of computers and the online community.

Your trouble areas may be as simple as your typing speed. If you want to improve your ability to type and communicate on a computer, you can use this free tool from TypingClub. This will help increase your data entry capabilities so that you can work with students in a more efficient manner.

If your needs are more complicated, you may consider engaging the assistance of a friend or family member. Give your friend, who is an Internet connectivity expert a call via phone, and let him know about your interest in improving your knowledge. You will find an extensive support system if you ask for the help you need. Your friends and family will be more than willing to assist you in gaining future employment.

The Bottom Line

The era of online tutoring is upon us. Students have access to dozens of resources to enable them to succeed in the classroom or in learning a new language.

Likewise, if you want to become a tutor, the opportunities to start a successful business are plentiful. With the ability to set your schedule, pay rate, and decide what subject areas you offer, it has never been easier to provide educational services. Whether you want to make tutoring a side gig, or your full-time job, you can start your own tutoring business from the comfort of your home.

The resources available to assist you with your online tutoring career are also abundant. If you wish to pursue the opportunity to teach from home, you can achieve the education and experience you need online. If you’re inspired to pursue online teaching, you can earn your education degree online through several accredited programs. From there, you can seek a career as an online teacher.

Teaching and tutoring are unique callings. Online education is a great way to make some extra money or create an at-home work opportunity. However, it also requires you to have an interest and passion for helping others. If you feel like you’re one of the individuals who find purpose in assisting others in the field of education, navigate your options in the online tutoring arena, it may be the perfect field for your next big career move.

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6 Best TEFL Courses for Teaching English Overseas

Posted: 4/18/20 | April 18th, 2020

One of the best ways to make money overseas is to teach English. Dozens of countries all around the world are always on the hunt for qualified English teachers, providing a steady income for travelers looking to pad their bank account in between trips.

Of course, teaching English abroad is also a valuable, enriching job in and of itself. Not only do you get to enjoy expat life in a far-flung destination but you get to help a community and the people who live in it while gaining valuable work and life experience. It’s a win-win!

In order to find a teaching position abroad, you’ll need to take a TEFL course first. TEFL stands for “Teaching English as a Foreign Language.” It’s a certificate program that teaches you how to teach English as a foreign language. (While you can find jobs without a TEFL certificate, they will be few and far between.)

TEFL programs are offered online and in-person all around the world; prices vary depending on where you enroll. Just like there are thousands of universities that offer bachelor’s degrees, there are thousands of companies that offer a certificate called “TEFL.”

Since there can be a lot of competition for teaching positions, you’ll want to make sure you enroll in a reputable program that will teach you the skills you need — not only to find a job but to succeed at it.

To help you get started, I’ve made a list of the top six TEFL programs. Having taught overseas in both Thailand and Taiwan (and having studied to be a history teacher myself), I can tell you not all programs are created equal!

1. i-to-i

When it comes to online TEFL courses, i-to-i is one of the best. It’s a basic online TEFL course that gives you 120 hours of study and costs $139 USD, making it one of the most affordable on the market. If you’re not 100% sure teaching overseas is for you, this course would be the best for testing the waters.

i-to-i also offers a 180-hour course with additional content on teaching young students and teaching grammar (because let’s face it, most of us native speakers are terrible at grammar). It also has 300-hour courses, TESOL-equivalent courses, and more. (See below for more about TESOL.)

If you’re new to teaching and want to see if it’s for you, this is the company I’d suggest you start with — especially if you’re on a budget. That said, since it’s all online, you’ll need to make sure you have the self-discipline to put in the work.

2. TEFLPros

TEFLPros offers an online 120-hour course that includes 17 hours of in-class observation videos. Its platform is incredibly user friendly and includes quizzes, worksheets, assignments, and tips on lesson planning. It’s $349 USD.

This course has more video content than most others, so if you prefer learning that way, this is a good choice for you. Best of all, they offer a free trial of the course, so you can check it out before you commit.

3. myTEFL

This is another affordable (but reputable) TEFL program. myTEFL offers a standard 120-hour program for $299 USD. In addition to all the online lessons and assignments, myTEFL will also provide you with a letter of recommendation upon completion, as well as assist you with finding a job.

You’ll have three months to complete your course; however, you’ll also get an additional three months of access to the content so that you can use it as a resource once you start teaching. Super helpful when you’re still finding your legs as a teacher!

For 35% off the price of your course, use the code “matt35” at check out!

4. International TEFL Academy

If you’re looking for a TEFL course that features in-classroom training, the International TEFL Academy is probably the best on the market. This is the most thorough and interactive course that you can get without physically being in a classroom for four weeks.

The 170-hour online course is a fully interactive, collegiate-level course taught by a university-level professor. It comes with 150 hours of coursework and 20 hours of student teaching. The course takes about 11 weeks, and you can expect to spend 10-12 hours a week on your coursework. The course is $1,399 USD.

While it is interactive, it’s not taught in real-time, so you can log in at any time to take your classes and do your coursework. Just make sure you meet your weekly assignment deadlines!

5. Vantage

This 120-hour TEFL course is based in Thailand, making it a convenient option if you’re already traveling in Southeast Asia and are considering teaching English.

Vantage focuses on preparing you to teach in Thailand, though it also has a specific course for teaching in China that guarantees a job upon completion. If you’re looking to teach in either country, this is the best program for you.

Vantage offers both an in-person, four-week course and a hybrid course comprising both online training and an in-class practicum (in Bangkok). Prices start at $1,295 USD.

While expensive, in-classroom experience is invaluable. If you have the money, it’s a worthwhile investment.

6. International TEFL and TESOL Training (ITTT)

ITTT has a wide variety of online courses, ranging from a bare-bones 60-hour courses to comprehensive 470-hour courses. Its main 120-hour online TEFL course covers all the basics and costs $239 USD.

However, for an additional $110 USD, ITTT also offers the option of having a tutor to help you progress through the course. If you’re new to teaching and serious about finding a job, I’d suggest the tutor option. Having someone to help you progress through the course will ensure that you’ll get the most out of the course and better prepare you for the job ahead.

A Note on TESOL/CELTA Courses

In addition to the TEFL course, there are also TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) courses. These are essentially the same thing: programs focused on learning to teach English to adults. CELTA is Cambridge University’s branded version of the TESOL and the most in-depth (and most expensive) such course on the market.

Unless you specifically want to work with adults or are certain you want to start a career teaching English, I would stick with just taking a TEFL course. You can always upgrade later if you decide to continue teaching.

TEFL Frequently Asked Questions

How long are most TEFL courses? Most TEFL courses are 120 hours long. They usually last a few weeks to a few months, depending on the schedule. While some courses can be shorter, employers prefer teachers with at least 100 hours of training.

Are TEFL courses done online or in-person? Most TEFL courses are done online, though the best courses also include some in-person classroom time.

How much do TEFL courses cost? TEFL courses start at around $150 USD and can cost as much as $2,000 USD, depending on how much in-class time is included.

Should I do a TESOL or CELTA course instead? A TESOL or CELTA course is specifically for those looking to teach English to adults. Unless you specifically want to teach adults or are looking to start a career (rather than having just a temporary job), I would stick with a TEFL course.

That said, some TESOL courses are essentially the same as TEFL courses and they are marketed together. For those courses, either a TEFL or TESOL will suffice since the course content is the same.

CELTA courses, however, are much more intensive and expensive, usually $2,000-2,800 USD. They are specifically for teaching adults.

Do I need a bachelor’s degree? Having a degree is necessary for some TEFL programs, but not all of them. However, it will give you an advantage in the hiring process and when negotiating a salary.

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Whether you’re looking to earn money to travel or want to start a new career, teaching English provides amazing opportunities for travel as well as personal and professional development.

By investing in a TEFL course you’ll be much better positioned to get hired in a country of your choosing. Not only that but you’ll have the skills and confidence to succeed on a day-to-day basis.

Teaching English abroad is an incredibly rewarding job and one that I’ve found enriches your travels. I can’t recommend it enough!

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The TEFL Academy: A Complete Guide to the Courses

When I look back on courses that made a big impact on my life, my TEFL certification course is probably the most important. A TEFL certification is a widely-recognized credential that will allow you to teach English abroad or online.

After getting TEFL certified, I found a job teaching English online while travelling. I love the flexibility of my current gig, but it’s comforting to know that I could also start teaching English abroad if I ever wanted to try something different.

For me, having a TEFL certification means having more opportunities to work and travel. It’s a handy tool for any adventurer to have in their back pocket, but you might be wondering where to get certified.

If you google “TEFL Courses,” you’ll probably find about a million certification programs circulating on the internet.

It can be challenging to decide which course is the best for you. For that reason, I’ve been profiling different online TEFL courses to help you find exactly what you’re looking for.

In this post, I’ll cover everything you need to know about getting your Level 5 TEFL certification from The TEFL Academy.

Note: Right now The TEFL Academy is offering 60% off their courses until midnight on Friday! Click here to learn more and to receive the discount.

About The TEFL Academy

The TEFL Academy is a Europe based TEFL company that’s accredited by Qualifi, DEAC, and AQC.

Since they only offer TEFL courses, they can focus whole-heartedly on preparing their students for a successful career in the English teaching industry.

The TEFL Academy courses are taught by passionate and experienced TEFL professionals with years of hands-on experience in the classroom.

Students have the option to take a fully online course or a hybrid online-onsite course.

Prospective students can choose the best fit for them with The TEFL Academy.

Why Choose The TEFL Academy

The TEFL Academy is a fully accredited TEFL course provider that specializes in offering flexible and affordable course options for everyone.

They are one of the only companies that offer a budget-friendly Level 5 TEFL Course, making this a great option for serious students who don’t want to break the bank.

Level 5 certification courses are widely recognized and accepted by employers around the world.

They are comparable in rigor to the CELTA or Trinity Cert TESOL courses.

The course lasts 168 hours which is well over the minimum requirement for most jobs (which is 120 hours).

If you decide to take a combination course with a classroom component, you’ll be able to choose from dozens of locations around the world.

Additionally, The TEFL Academy has internships, volunteer opportunities, and a robust job board available to students.

Types Of Courses Available

There are two main TEFL courses offered by The TEFL Academy: An online Level 5 course and a combined Level 5 course.

Online Level 5 TEFL Course

As the name suggests, this Level 5 TEFL Course is fully online.

You can complete a 168 hour TEFL certification program from the comfort of home and on your own schedule.

Additionally, you’ll receive a free 30-hour top-up course of your choosing. That’s 198 hours of TEFL Training in total!

Students have 6 months of access to the materials, but you’ll complete the course in one to two months if you work diligently.

This course also includes virtual assistance from a tutor and job search guidance upon completion.

The course consists of 10 units with an exam at the end of each unit to ensure understanding. Three units have assignments that you must submit for a grade.

The ten units cover the following topics:

Lesson Planning

How to teach vocabulary

How to teach pronunciation

English Grammar

Teaching listening and reading

Teaching speaking and writing

Grammar Instruction

Foundations of TEFL

Classroom resources, materials, and management

Using resources effectively

How to find a TEFL job – job sites and how to prepare your cv and cover letter

Combined Level 5 TEFL Course

If you’re looking for a TEFL course with hands-on training, you can choose to take the combined level 5 TEFL course.

This option includes a 148-hour online course and a 20-hour in-person training weekend.

Like with the fully-online course, you’ll get a free 30-hour top-up course when you sign up. You’ll also receive 6 months of course access, support from a tutor and job placement assistance.

The online portion of this course will cover the same material listed above. For the in-person portion, you can expect additional sessions such as:

Classroom management

Teaching true beginners

Practice teaching preparation and collaboration

Peer to peer practice teaching with feedback

These in-person weekend sessions take place every month in cities around the world. Currently, classes are offered in the following locations:

North America: Austin, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philidelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver

Oceania: New Zealand and Australia

Europe: Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, and Greece

Africa: South Africa

There will be around 20 students at each session and one of the biggest selling points is the chance to practice teaching lessons with other TEFL students.

Practice teaching helps new educators learn about classroom pacing and lesson planning. It also helps teachers feel more confident when they start teaching in their real classroom.

To learn more about specific dates at each teaching location, click on the “TEFL courses” tab and then the “Combined Course Locations” button. You’ll be taken to a map and if you mouse over each place, you can click a button to reveal course dates.

Top-Up Courses

Top-Up courses are designed to further your knowledge after you’ve completed your basic TEFL course.

These courses are open to anyone who already has their standard TEFL certificate and they provide a greater depth of knowledge in a specialized area.

These top-up courses can also enhance your resume in the eyes of future employers!

Teaching Business English: This is a 30-hour course with three units that will prepare you to teach business English to professionals. The course covers activities, techniques, and intercultural skills for your business English classroom.

Teaching Young Learners: This course is also 30 hours and has three units. The units cover topics specific to young children like language development, learning styles, improving student motivation, planning engaging activities, and managing the classroom.

Teaching Online and 1:1: This 30-hour course has five units devoted to helping you teach English online with confidence. Learn about which platforms you can use for teaching, what gear and materials you’ll need, what kinds of courses you should offer, and how to prepare for online lessons.

Cost Of The TEFL Academy

The Online Level 5 TEFL Course is typically $530 USD.

Right now, the TEFL Academy is having an Easter sale and this course is 60% off.

The sale price is $238 USD and this sale price ends on April 10, 2020.

The Combined Level 5 TEFL course is typically $840USD. It’s also on sale right now for 60% off so the new price is $378 USD until April 10.

Top-Up courses usually cost $130 USD. They are now listed for $58 USD because of the Easter sale.

Click here to learn more and to sign up with The TEFL Academy.

Is There Anything Else The TEFL Academy Offers?

The TEFL Academy offers more than just top-notch TEFL certifications. They also have internships, volunteer opportunities, and a helpful job listing board.

TEFL Internships

These internships are a great place to start if you’re looking for a chance to gain paid teaching experience around the world.

Below I’ll walk through some of the locations and packages available with The TEFL Academy at the time this post was published.

Keep in mind that the specifics of these internships might change, so it’s best to visit their website to see the latest opportunities.

TEFL Internship Locations

Indonesia: This 12 month internship pays IDR 12,000,000. -15,000,000 ($760-$950) per month and includes housing, work visa sponsorship, and health insurance.

Spain: Live in sunny Spain for 4-6 months! Teachers in this internship will earn 900 euros ($985) per month while teaching 30 hours/week. Housing guidance and visa assistance are provided. Some opportunities listed don’t require a BA degree.

Thailand: If spending 5 months in Thailand sounds like a dream, this internship is for you! Teachers make 31,000 Baht ($950) per month and you’ll receive visa, accommodation, and hiring guidance.

South Korea: Teach in South Korea for 12 months earning 1.9-2.7 million KRW ($1,570 – $2,230) per month. Many packages also include flights, housing, and paid vacation time.

Japan: This12 month internship pays 252,800 JPY ($2,330) per month and includes visa sponsorship and paid leave time.

China: You can choose from various programs throughout the country, including Au Pair jobs and teaching roles. Many programs include accommodation, flights, and comprehensive assistance. Some opportunities do not require a BA degree.

Vietnam: Teach in Vietnam for 10 months earning 1,000 – 1,500 USD per month. Placements include accommodation, health insurance, and lesson plans.

Argentina: Choose between 3 months or 12 months in Argentina with a stipend of 1200 pesos per month. Many placements include homestay accommodation, language lessons, ongoing support.

India: Live and teach in India for 4 months while earning 7,500 – 10,000 Rs. ($98 – $130) per month. Accommodation and meals are provided and you’ll also receive support for the duration of your stay. No BA degree needed!

Taiwan: This teaching internship lasts 12 months and pays 43,200 – 70,000 NT ($1,430 – $2,330) per month. Teachers also receive visa assistance, health insurance, and teaching curriculum.

To learn more about these internship programs and their requirements, make sure to visit the TEFL Academy’s website for the latest information.

TEFL Volunteering

If you want to get TEFL teaching experience while volunteering abroad, you can do so with The TEFL Academy.

With these volunteer programs, you can spend a few weeks or a few months volunteering in Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, or South Africa.

All volunteering positions require that you have at least a 120 hour TEFL certificate. You’ll pass that requirement with flying colors if you choose to take the Level 5 168-hour course through The TEFL Academy!

The Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and South Africa programs don’t require a BA degree or prior teaching experience to participate.

TEFL Jobs Board

Upon graduation, students will have access to the TEFL Academy job board. Here, companies from around the world list their TEFL job vacancies with information about how to apply.

Students can sort jobs by region, country, or degree requirement, making this a great resource to find TEFL teaching jobs abroad and online.

Pros and Cons of The TEFL Academy

Pros Of The TEFL Academy

The TEFL Academy offers high quality, Level 5, 168-hour TEFL course for a reasonable rate. It’s great that you can choose between an online or combination course depending on what your needs are.

After reading student reviews, it’s clear that the qualified trainers are a huge highlight of the course. Many students mention how much they enjoyed their teachers. They felt reassured and confident after leaving their course.

The TEFL Academy provides resume editing assistance and job placement suggestions. According to their website, many students receive a job offer within one month of finishing the course.

I also love how the TEFL Academy gives students a free top-up course when they purchase their 168-hour Level 5 TEFL course. This allows students to dig deeper into a topic that interests them and helps them be more competitive when they apply to jobs in the future.

Cons Of The TEFL Academy

One con of the TEFL academy is that students only have access to their course materials for six months. It’s important to sign up when you know you’ll have time to devote to the course so you can finish it before the deadline.

The personal tutor support can sometimes take a while. You have to use a support ticket system to get help, which can take a bit of time to process. Having an instant support option would be a nice addition to this program.

Who Can Take This Course?

To take this course, you’ll need to be a native English speaker or a non-native speaker with a C1 level proficiency (IELTS 6.5-7.5) or higher.

Because this is an online course, you’ll need a reliable internet connection and a laptop, tablet, or desktop computer.

Students often ask if they can become a TEFL teacher without a BA degree.

The answer is yes!

The TEFL Academy provides resources for students without BA degrees, including a list of countries where a BA degree is not required to teach.

If you want to teach abroad and don’t have a BA degree, getting TEFL certified is a great choice. This will broaden your options and give you a support team that knows the best places to apply.

How To Sign Up For The TEFL Academy Course

To sign up for the TEFL Academy course, click on the “TEFL Courses” drop-down link in the main menu. Click on the link for the course you’re interested in taking.

In the green box at the top of the page, you’ll see two buttons that say “Enroll Me” and “Request a Call Back.” Request a callback if you’re still unsure about getting TEFL certified and would like more information.

But if you know that you’re ready to take the leap, click the “Enroll” button to get started.

For the online course, fill out personal information and payment details on the course registration page.

For the combination course, select where you’d like to do your in-person training weekend on the interactive map. After picking the location and dates that work best for you, click “Enroll Me.” Fill in your details to complete the sign-up process on the following registration page.

With The TEFL Academy, you can be sure you’re getting a top-notch TEFL course for a reasonable rate. Before you know it, you’ll be on your way to an exciting new adventure teaching online or teaching abroad!

Click Here to Learn More and Sign Up With The TEFL Academy

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