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Issue 40
Tuesday Edition
David Skaife
October 01, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes
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In this issue
😑📘Koala Teachers Family recap
A slow week on the Facebook group
Playground
🛝🛠️Let's Go Swimming - a Koala Go Playground by Dawn
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Let’s Go Swimming!!🏊♂️
Accomplish More. Juggle Less.
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Teaching Tools
👩🏻🏫🛠️YouTube Video to Blog
Another tool I found on the Wordware site. Turn a YouTube Video into a Blog post. Click the image or link below to see the article.
Is this the future?
Editorial
✍️🃏 Editorial: The current state of the online ESL market
This is just my opinion on the current state of the online ESL teaching profession.
It’s not that great now and I believe it will get worse before it gets better.
What do I mean by that? Well, there are simply way too many people trying to make money this way, so in effect everyone is accepting less and less money to teach classes for a company.
"When education becomes a rat race, who wins?" - Image and caption created by Gemini
Although the market seems to be completely saturated, more people enter the market every week.
Here in Vietnam I have watched the advertised hourly rates offered by brick and mortar schools go from 600k Dong (about $24 USD) down to a current 400k Dong (about 16 USD). I believe they will continue to drop as schools always seem to fill those positions. Now schools are seeking teachers from specific regions or countries knowing they can pay them even less. Capitalism!
With the current uproar over a certain teacher covered in this video, it’s not unlikely that China will again change their rules and upset many apple carts, again, and once again force people to undervalue their time in order to teach.
During a recent Preply community meeting a new teacher told of their massive success, they were Indian with a strong accent, they claimed to have taught over 300 ESL English lessons in 2 months, that’s a lot. Best part was they charged $5/hour of which Preply takes a commission of 18-33% depending on how many total hours you have taught for them. Do the math on that one.
For myself, I’m getting close to retirement, so if I can teach for a few more years that’s great, but for people entering the industry now, I just don’t know. This isn’t even taking into consideration the impact of AI tutors in the near future.
On a positive note, I believe the top 20% of teachers who keep up with technology, keep current with new teaching methods, enjoy their work and are realistic about their earning potential can succeed.
Are you one of those teachers?
Links
🧐⛓️💥Interesting Links
These are links that I found interesting but haven’t written about, there is simply too much happening these days.
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