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Thursday, April 12, 2012

How did I become an online teacher?

Hello there again. How have you been? So, one of my past posts already mentioned on how I got this job right? Well let me give you more details about it and I hope it'll  help you in the future. Let me start.

I got a message from a friend asking me if I wanted to be an online teacher, my first impression was, "OH, sounds cool." And then I sent her a reply asking how can I get an interview, what to bring and what to wear. So I got the information needed. The next day, I didn't hesitate to go there because I got too excited from what my friend told me, that the pay for this kind of job is PER HOUR.

When I entered the office, I saw some teachers teaching through Skype. At first, I felt scared because nobody approached me but as soon as their class finished they greeted me and said hello. I got an interview from one of the teachers. The interview wasn't that difficult at all because the questions were more about my personal information but I have to do it in English of course. Few minutes after I got interviewed, I had a chat with the owner of the company and had another interview through Skype (because she was in Korea that time). The interview was quite interesting because it was my first time to talk to Korean. I'll be honest that her English wasn't that good but I had a good conversation towards her and I'm proud of myself that I was able to understand what she was saying.

After that day, the teachers and the owner told me to go back to that office to observe. Observation is what I did most in the first few weeks of my training in that office. I have to observe how the teacher teaches the students, how they should handle stubborn kids, how to make myself comfortable with this work. That wasn't so hard after all. The other part of my training is my pronunciation and reading. If you are going to deal with children specially Korean kids, you have to speak depending on their level and you have to use the simplest word as possible (but for others it might not apply). The other part of the training was to handle classes with the daughter of my boss. I didn't really find it hard again to talk to her because she is very jolly. She is easy to cope up with so we had great lessons that time. Upon teaching her, she is the one who is evaluating me if I can handle other Korean kiddos. Well, fortunately I passed. That was the first job that I had after I graduate. It was very convenient for me because the office isn't that far though it was very creepy inside it. Anyway, that's what I can share again for now. Hopefully soon I will share on what I did from being an online teacher. I'll give you hint, I didn't settle for only one work. Be back soon. God bless. (Sorry if you find my post messy.)
I'm just sharing this picture of ours. This was taken when we had swimming in Tabacco.

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