Being An Online English Teacher

If you are already a teacher or trainer, offering your online services is an effective way to earn extra income. You can even consider exercising full time to enjoy the comfort of your home. You can also offer your services offline, but promote your business online.

The Web is an ideal place to introduce yourself and provide this kind of service. Customers can communicate with you by e-mail, phone, chat, or by instant messaging services such as MSN. They can send you their projects or essays by e-mail as an attachment, which gives you the possibility to answer them easily and quickly with your comments and advice. Your main source of revenue will come from the hourly rate you will charge your customers.

Required Skills

You will need experience in tutoring or teaching. Communicating clearly and concisely is also very important. Finally, you will need to be able to update your company's website, so you need to have basic skills in terms of web publishing. Having TEFL certificates also is a good thing if you want to attract foreign students and more importantly if you want to teach English online in Thailand.

You can also top up your income f teaching online by being an English teacher in one of Thailand’s English schools where you will get the advantage of solving your visa issues, work permits and other benefits such as health benefits and also colleagues who can be your moral support.