Many new CELTA holders, hundreds in fact each month, are out in the world looking for jobs! And since many of the courses are delivered fully online these days, it makes sense that our trainees will be looking for online work.
There is plenty of that about, but which online outfit to choose is a big question, one that our trainees often ask!
Martin Sketchley, an experienced colleague and trainer who has been working online for some time now, introduces us to the basics of how to set yourself up for online teaching; what microphone to use, what equipment, what lighting, and how to organise your working space. His advice is valuable to new online teachers.
Other colleagues share advice on how to find students and some, share ideas about websites useful to the online teacher for activities and materials you can use either for free or at very low cost to save on preparation time.
Online outfits
This post does not aim to tell you which online outfit is the best but to list a number of sources of information which you can use in order to judge where to apply and to have an idea of whether your application will be considered or not. For example, is it a good idea to apply if you do not have a first degree or not? Some outfits insist on this, other outfits are happy if you just have a CELTA.
Some Posts evaluating different online spaces
A list of websites from Google
- Preply – Martin shares a video where he talks about working for Preply
- Italki – a glowing report here and the flip side here
- Cambly – some great comments here and what a teach wishes she had known before joining Cambly
- Lingoda. – a review on FluentU and one on YouTube
- Open English
- SkimaTalk
- Englishhunt
- Engoo
- iTutorGroup
- Learnlight
- PalFish
- Verbling
- VIPKID
- All school
- EF Education First
- LatinHire
- Qkids
- Tutlo
- Eigox
- Tutoring
All these sites have been reviewed – we have started this for you. Use google and You Tube searches to find information about each one – add the link in a comment if you can.
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