What companies do hire non-native speakers to teach English on-line?
Teaching on-line is a great option for those who doesn’t want to go abroad. The average salary range is $10-20 per hour.
Here you can also face discrimination for non-native speakers. Some companies, such as, VIPKid, Magic Ears and Gogokid employ only first English-language teachers.
However, there are 7 companies that can hire non-native English speakers to teach ESL online: italki, Engoo, All right, Topica Native, Fluentbe, Learnlight, and Preply. They are online speech tutoring platforms and schools that connects students with their ESL teachers online via different internet communication programs.
Essential requirements for all these companies are: fluent English, teaching experience, (on-line experience of teaching is a plus) and a high-speed (at least 1 MB) of internet connection.
italki
italki is a so-called platform, where students can find their teachers. That’s why to have an introduction video in your Prole is obligatory. It helps students to understand what the sessions with you will be like and how they will speak English after learning it from you.
italki requires for non-natives to have native Prociency or the most advanced (C2) level of English. So, you should have any language Prociency certification to prove your qualification.
It supports not only Skype sessions, but also Google Hangouts, Facetime, and QQ.
You choose your schedule available for students and set your own prices. italki only charges 15% fee on transaction between teachers and students. And it doesn’t even charge a commission fee for your trial sessions.
Engoo
Engoo (former Bibo Global Opportunity) is a same platform, where English teachers provide their lessons to students from Japan, Taiwan, and other countries via Skype. It is required for non-natives to have a Prociency in the English language. A certificate is not mandatory but to have it is a plus. ESL teaching experience is not also required.
Tutors’ schedule is flexible, slots can be opened 24/7, up to 7 days in advance. And there is no minimum number of classes. Any lesson lasts 25 minutes, and there 5 – minutes break between them.
You’ll be paid around $10 per hour.
Topica Native
Topica Native is a platform that provides innovative services of internet connection, including the first English learning program via Google glass and the method of adaptive learning. Your students are grown-ups that want to study conversational English.
You will have a flexible timetable, based on your free time. 45 minutes running, 16 daily classes lasting from 8AM to 11PM (GMT +7).
To be hired in Topica Native as a non-native speaker, you should have a high level of Prociency. Since Topica uses a payscale system of ranks (all the teachers are classified into 8 ranks), your salary will also depend on your level of Prociency.
All right
AllRight.io is a growing English school that specializes in teaching of 4-12 aged children from all over the world, but mostly from Russia, Poland, Spain and Italy.
The requirements are: having a degree or at least a TEFL certification and a teaching experience. There are also categories for the tutors: Standard, Near-native and Native. And your pay will depend on the category you will be referred to.
Lessons’ duration is either 25 or 55 minutes, and the pay usually starts on $8 and can reach up to $12 per hour.
Fluentbe
Fluentbe is an online language school that study polish adult students.
The only requirement is to have at least 1-year experience teaching adults, and it’s also welcomed to have an online teaching experience (Skype, etc.).
Here, you will also have flexible working hours, and the pay rate at $10 per hour.
Learnlight
Since the students in the Learnlight are highly motivated business professionals of different sectors from over 100 countries, the requirements here are also quite high. You should have a foreign language teaching qualification (i.e. TEFL, TESOL, CELTA, EPE, FLE, DAEFLE, DELE, ELE, DaF, DITALS), and a minimum two years’ language teaching experience. To have a business background will be your plus.
The rate of pay isn’t mention on its website but according to information from different forums and Glassdoor, it rates $12-14 per hour.
Your schedule can be fixed for a minimum of one year with a minimum of 10 hours per week.
Preply
Preply is a so-called marketplace of teachers. Both native and non-native speakers can be hired here.
You will have your own calendar where you will be able to manage lessons and set your own hours.
The idea is that following: the more working hours you have, the more you earn. Preply takes a 100% commission fee of every first paid lesson with a new student. But the more tutoring you do, the less commission you pay (it varies from 33% to 18%).
It motivates tutors to maintain or even improve their level of teaching, to have a fixed timetable, to attract more students and to keep the older ones for long. The most popular teachers may earn here up to $550 per week.
*Just visit the website of any of these companies (click at the chosen school/platform, mentioned above) to know more informationб and to apply immediately for their vacancies as a non-native speaker.