Upskill
How to Teach English Online
Everything you need to start and grow an online ESL teaching career. Platform setup, lesson planning, student retention, and building a full schedule from scratch.
What you'll learn
How each lesson works
Every lesson mixes short teaching cards with 8-plus kinds of interactive exercises. No passive reading. You practice as you go.
Teaching cards
Short, no-fluff explanations
Multiple choice
Pick the natural option
Fill in the blank
Type the right word
Word reorder
Build sentences from tiles
Match pairs
Connect phrase to meaning
Dialogues
Read + pick the best reply
True / false
Test what you know
Error correction
Fix the sentence
Listening
Play, then answer
Curriculum
23 lessons · 4h 48m total
Online Teaching vs. Classroom Teaching: What's Different
Choosing Your Platform: Freelance vs. Company
Setting Up Your Teaching Space (Camera, Mic, Lighting)
Your First Lesson: A Step-by-Step Walkthrough
Planning a 25-Minute Lesson That Flows
Planning a 50-Minute Lesson With Variety
Using Props, Slides & Screen Sharing Effectively
Emergency Lesson Plans: When You Have 5 Minutes to Prepare
Adapting Materials for Different Levels on the Fly
Error Correction That Helps (Not Discourages)
Eliciting Answers Instead of Giving Them
Maximizing Student Talking Time
Teaching Grammar Without Being Boring
Teaching Pronunciation Remotely
Building Rapport Through a Screen
Managing No-Shows and Late Cancellations
Keeping Students Motivated Long-Term
Handling Difficult or Unmotivated Students
Setting Your Rates (And When to Raise Them)
Getting Reviews and Referrals
Building a Full Schedule: From 5 to 30 Hours a Week
Creating a Professional Teacher Profile
Taxes and Invoicing for Freelance Teachers
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Get this courseNotes from a teacher who has done this for a decade
Camera, mic, lighting, platform choice, and the first booking. What experienced online teachers wish they had known before their first 100 lessons.
Online teaching looks easy from the outside. New teachers think it is sitting in a room with a webcam. The difference between a teacher who fills their schedule in three months and one who quits at month four is almost never their teaching skill. It is the boring stuff: lighting, sound, follow-through, response time, and a clean profile. Get those right and the teaching takes care of itself.
Spend money on the right two things
A decent microphone and good light beat any other equipment investment. Students will tolerate a mediocre webcam. They will not tolerate echoey audio or a dark background. A $50 USB condenser microphone and a $30 ring light put you ahead of 80 percent of new online teachers. Skip the green screen, the fancy keyboard, the second monitor. They are vanity, not yield.
Platform choice
If you are starting today: platform-employed first (italki, Cambly, Preply) until you have a track record. Direct freelance is more profitable but only after you have reviews and a referral base. Year one is for reputation. Year two is when you start charging your own rate. Plan for that arc.
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