r/OnlineESLTeaching

Hi, I made this one. I've played Wordle-likes for years and always wanted to build my own, but I never had an idea that felt like mine.

The push came from a strange place. Half of what I read these days is written by AI, and it's never short. Every email, every doc, twelve words where five would do. At some point I said the phrase out loud, long story short, and realised it was a game.

So: you get a twelve-word sentence. You rephrase it in exactly five of its own words. Real English, same meaning, your job is to work out which words carry the sentence and which are just dressed up to look important. Scoring is Wordle style, blue for right word in the right spot, orange for in the answer but elsewhere, grey for out. Five tries, one sentence a day.

My wife and my brother were the playtesters. An early version let "the" beat proper words in the answer, which felt awful to lose to, so the answers now always favour the concrete word. That one change ate a whole weekend.

Hi everyone — I have taught ESL for 20 years and I can program. I want to build a simple platform like Engoo for 1v1 lessons. I am not looking for investment. I am looking for creators, teachers, and contributors who know the market and want to build something together.

If you are a teacher, course creator, product designer, curriculum writer, or marketer and you care about online teaching, let’s talk. I can build the technical basics and the lesson flow. I need people who can help with content, user experience, teacher tools, and growth ideas.

If you are interested, please comment or send me a DM with a short note about your skills and what you want to help with. Thanks — E

I'm a new teacher and i have started in worst season summer where i barelly can scrape students.

Do you have any ideas how can i level up myself and find more students.

Maybe some agency that scopes them?

I've been working as an online ESL teacher and recently started looking into opportunities with SeeGuru. From what I've seen, the starting rate is around $4/hour, and the students are mainly from Israel.

For teachers based in the Philippines, the schedule can sometimes mean working late at night or during graveyard hours because of the time difference.

I'm curious about other ESL teachers' experiences with similar platforms.

Would you consider working overnight for around $4/hour if you enjoyed teaching the students and had a flexible schedule? Or do you think the rate should be higher for graveyard shifts?

I'd love to hear from other ESL teachers, especially those who have experience teaching Israeli students.

What do you think is a fair hourly rate for online ESL teaching when the schedule is mostly overnight?

hi! i'm currently an undergraduate student and i discovered ringle recently. i applied because i wanted a relatively lighter job for the summer. i've been working with them for around 2 weeks now and honestly the hours/pay seem great so it's made me a little suspicious (especially because i was hired without much prior experience). has anyone else here worked with ringle for a while, and can you let me know your experience and whether there's any "catch"?

Has anyone been having issues with Cambridge one? Haven't been able to access it for a few days. All I get is this and I've tried from my cell and I've cleared my cache and no luck. Anybody else having any problems? Thanks in advance!

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Hola! Soy profesora de español e inglés, soy nativa de Venezuela por lo que mi español es fluido, y cuento con un certificado C1 en inglés, y tengo experiencia enseñando los dos idiomas! Si tienes preguntas no dudes en hacerlas en los comentarios o escribirme al DM 🩷!!

Hello! I'm a native U.S English speaker 5 years of experience and live in Brazil. Fluent in Portuguese and Spanish.

I currently have about 5 hours or so private students 20$ an hr and I work for a school in Europe 12 hours or so a week about 15 euros per hour. (Online)

I supliment income with open English which is low pay 10 dollars an hr or so and they treat teachers poorly. I also started a preply but I'm new so I need to start low 10$ an hr have two students

I'm trying to get stop working for open English and replace that time with a school that pays about 15$ an hr or so.

I'm tefl certified and have ielts certificates. I usually teach business English.

Any new perspectives or assistance on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Notifying the student within 24 hours

How many times could a reschedule happen before getting kicked off the platform ?

Hi everyone

I am currently working as an online English teacher for Open English through a recruitment company. I am looking to change the recruitment company but I want to stay in my position at Open English. I am not sure if this is something that can be done but I would like to try.

As far as I know, there are three agencies recruiting for Open English: Latinhire, The Really Great Teacher company and the one I am currently working for.

I have worked for Latinhire before but I decided to leave in 2023 when they went on a firing spree. I have reached out to them but no response. I doubt they will take me back.

I would really love to explore other options so if you do know of another recruitment company that works with Open English, please drop a comment :)

I've been looking at various platforms to run my tutoring business on but I've decided to use WordPress as it's so familiar to me. Which plugins do you recommend to run the whole operation e.g. video call integration, payment, booking, calendar, packages, subscriptions etc?

This is very random, but I started my online teaching at a job for both children and adults for six months now, and recently decided to sign on with another company that focuses primarily on children ages 5-12 to add some variety and bring in some income.

While this company provides the learning materials on their own learning platform, it also really emphasizes that I have my own props (like toys, puppets, or whiteboards) to highlight the lesson and make it more fun. This is different from my first and current company that I am working for, since my first company heavily relied on the Zoom screenshare function for visuals (like videos or images).

Are there any suggestions on what I should get? I'm the youngest in my family and lost a lot of my original toys and learning props due to being homeless for six months when I was 11 (having to leave behind or sell most of my toys, and then losing the rest of them because of mold and mice), so I am sort of starting from scratch in the kid department lol! Thankfully, the company provides a background for the teachers, so I don't have to worry about decor.

All suggestions are welcome! I have no idea where to start!

Hey y'all! 👋

So I currently work at a college as an ESL teacher and now want to start doing some private online group lessons since I've built a good network of non English speaking professionals.

I'm stuck at how to I struture the timings.

Does every other day or every day work best? 60 mins or 90 mins?

What has your expereince been like? Cautionary tales welcome :)

Set three alarms. Made coffee quietly. Opened the lesson room at 3:58. My student had cancelled while I was asleep.

I have been teaching online for eight years and this still feels like being stood up by someone who lives inside a browser tab.

The worst part is that you cannot even go back to sleep because your body has already accepted that the day has started. Please tell me other teachers have a ridiculous no show story.

Hello everyone, a friend who has taught off and on with Palfish has recommended me to their platform. What are the pros and cons with starting here and if the cons are strong, what’s a better starting platform to gain my experience and refine my skills? Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Hi everyone! Looking for some advice here.

I'm trying to see what to do with this beginners class. (they've only been taking classes since April)

Tomorrow I'm having my class observed by one of the directors of the institute I'm working at, so I really want to do things right. Now, the thing is, this group is a bit particular. It's an in-company beginners online class of 3 students, of which one comes to class once every two or three weeks (we have classes twice a week), and another girl has been on leave for about two weeks now, so we've had classes only with one of them over this period.

So, I wonder now what I can do tomorrow, as probably (but not certain) the student who'd been on leave is coming back to class and the other student (the one that's always absent) might even join.

What do you generally do when you have this problem of so many people being absent and then having them together again with the others who have been attending regularly?

Filipino ESL teacher here! I'm currently teaching in a Chinese company and I am planning on resigning. But I haven't got a back up plan yet. I am looking for an ESL company that has peak times within 8 PM - 1 AM (Philippine time)