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Even though there have been major changes in the way that languages are taught, many people upon hearing "I teach English online" suddenly look confused. Soon after their intrigue kicks in and barrage of questions are released: "Is that possible? Where are your students from? How do you teach ...

My first English teaching website took me hours upon hours of trial and error. I had no coding experience and didn’t really know what I was doing, but somehow I managed to have my own website created. It looked pretty basic and wasn’t scalable, but it got the job done. It had all the informati...

  As well as teaching online lessons I have also been on the other side of the webcam. Taking Spanish lessons has given me great insight into what it is like for a student to take online lessons and having that experience has made me a better teacher. The one thing that is the most annoying as ...

It took me some time to feel comfortable about putting my face and name on my websites. I felt a little uncomfortable putting myself out there and building a website around me. It was difficult at first but now I’ve started to brand myself more, not due to any egotistical tendency, but because it’s ...

Most teachers that teach ESL online give general lessons without really being specific about what they do. Conversational lessons are the most common, with some offering business English along with exam preparation. But it usually stops there. I’ve talked about how students buy into the teacher firs...

  From Monday to Friday at around 1pm, and again 10 minutes later, my 12lb dog sounds like he wants to rip someone’s head off. I never knew such a small dog could sound so angry and ferocious. The nice, friendly mailman pulls up and drops off our mail, and then 10 minutes later pulls up a...

  This was probably the number one thing I heard during my first year of online teaching. I had offered new students a free twenty minute trial lesson which the majority of my students interpreted to mean free lessons for life. Two of the biggest mistakes I made at the start were not charging f...

I have seen many new English teachers make a beeline straight for the online newspaper when first taking lessons. It seems a great idea at first, right? You choose an article that you think is interesting, send it to the student, they read it before class and out loud during class, then you look at ...

You know the story: Man/woman is fed up with the rat race and his/her terrible boss, escapes his/her 9-5 hell and ends up becoming their own boss and making lots of money. Sorry to disappoint those looking for a similar story here, but that isn’t exactly how I ended up with my own language sch...