ManyCam is an easy-to-use software that allows you to enhance your video while teaching English online. You can browse through their library of effects and props, or add your own! This makes learning fun, interactive, and visually appealing for students of all ages.

As a non-native English speaker, you’ve probably exhausted all your options when it comes to finding a company to teach for. You’re ready to start teaching English online, but so frustrated with company after company requiring “native English speaker” as a prerequisite. Today, I’m here to tell you that a) I see you! and b) there are still some options out there.

Teaching English online has helped me to work from home, create an income, and build my own business. After teaching English online for three years, I have learned a few things that I wish I had known when I was starting.

At a time like this pandemic, more and more South Africans are looking to find employment online.

However, it has increasingly become difficult for South African teachers to find jobs with online schools due to a number of reasons, namely: connection issues, nationality, gender, race (sorry, but it’s a thing).

There is no need to despair though, because we have scoured the interweb to find schools that will make it easier for you to be able to teach English online as a South African native speaker.

A majority of the teachers you will see teaching online are female and this can turn many great male teachers away from a potentially rewarding work-at-home opportunity. With the overwhelming majority of online ESL teachers being female, male teachers might wonder if gender plays a role in getting hired and being successful.

It’s 2020 and teaching English online has never been easier. But with the ever-developing digital space now offering tools such as apps and online streaming services, we as online English teachers must be adaptable and ready to explore new paths to reach our students.

Have you ever noticed that successful online English teachers don’t seem to run out of students? They can open their huge schedules for two weeks out and have them them fill up almost instantly. Some teachers can even go totally “short-notice” and fill their time slots for the next day within 24 hours, no matter when they open them. What’s their secret?

Online English teaching is a fast-growing profession in an increasingly virtual world. But despite the increasing lifestyle options made available by technology, it’s also worth considering how these new options affect our mental wellbeing.

You've made it past the interview, the demo and all the paperwork that comes with it. Phew. However, crickets are the only sound you hear because you are not getting any students signing up for your classes. A week turns to two, then three, and before you know it, two months have passed and you have taught five lessons at best. This is NOT what you signed up for. How much longer can you keep going like this?