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7 Online English Teaching Jobs for Non-native Speakers

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.

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Teaching Children versus Teaching Adults

Teaching English to foreign students can be divided into two categories- teaching adults and teaching children. Though they both fall under the umbrella of TEFL, they in fact compromise two entirely different worlds. Each requires a different skillset and a different personality profile. Each has its own set of challenges, pros and cons and each has a different learning curve.

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Six Online English Teaching Jobs Hiring South Africans

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.

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Does Gender Play a Role in Online Teaching?

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.

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7 Alternative Ways to Teach English Online

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.

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Travellers: Make the Most of the Pandemic - Teach English Online

You packed your bags and set off on an adventure of a lifetime. You spent months, maybe years planning and saving only for it all to be derailed by a global pandemic. Whether you are stuck at home or abroad, having your travel plans put on pause or canceled can be difficult. Why not use this time to teach English online and prepare for your next adventure?

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How to Get and Keep “Regular” 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?

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How to Make a Great Teacher Introduction Video

An online English teaching job ad catches your eye. You click the "Apply" button, fill out the application form, and upload your headshot. Then, just when you think you are done, you see that it requires your self-introduction video and realize you don't have one yet.

If you have ever been stuck in this kind of situation, don't panic! We're here to help you craft an English teacher introduction video that will dazzle not only your potential employers, but also your future students!

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7 Things You Need to Become an Independent English Teacher

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?

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The Lowdown on the New VIPKid Payment System

Beginning August 1st, 2020, VIPKid will gradually transition all new and existing teachers on the platform to the latest version of the incentive pay system, called the New Service Fee Structure. These are two very different systems, and the new one is quite complex, so we hope this article will shed a little light on how the new one works.

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Keep More of Your Money - Minimize Bank Fees When Getting Paid

There’s nothing worse than receiving your long-awaited pay check and then losing a chunk of it to annoying fees. Because most online English teaching companies are based in countries different from their teachers (mostly China), getting your money can be a little tricky.

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The Perfect Summer Job for Teachers

Summer is a glorious time for students and teachers alike.  A time to relax, enjoy the great outdoors, and reflect on a successful year of growth and learning. But for teachers who are looking to make some extra cash, summer can be the season of hustle. This time of year is a gold mine if you teach English online.

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The Differences Between Brick-and-mortar Teaching and Teaching English Online.

Whether it is to supplement their traditional teaching jobs, to enable them to spend more time with their families, to give them a source of income after returning home from teaching abroad, or to give them the flexibility to travel, more and more “bricks and mortar” teachers are moving into the online classroom.

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"How much money can I make teaching English online?"

Today, we are going to talk about that wonderful thing that undeniably makes the world go round: money.

Here at Online English Teaching, we talk to a lot of people about teaching English online.  One of the first questions we get from interested candidates is, “Can I make a living doing this?”

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