What are the best online teaching jobs in India? Are they genuine options? DoI need to pay to register in the teaching platforms? Do I need to share my contact details? Can I teach painting and pottery online? Can I teach chess online ? Can I teach French online in India? How do I get student online? Is it tiresome job to upload my profile? Do people take paid online classes in India? Are these education sites genuine? How to search for students online?
The list can be longer 🙂
As promised, this is part of online/ freelance job options series. Teaching and learning goes hand in hand, it is said, teachers learn more while tutoring the students more than reading their own. There are many online platform operating in India offering teaching jobs. Besides online teaching, these platforms provide offline options as well. Many of them have teaching apps as well.
To become a good teacher is evolving process and experience. Now, apart from being the subject matter, one need to upgrade online skill to continue teaching students. Covid19 Pandemic has brought all academicians on digital platform whether savvy or not, be it a formal school or private tutorial. While full-time job holders have least say in the matter, it is a matter of choice for the private tutors, if they want to improve their student base, teahing skills etc. If you want to be part of the changing world and continue your passion for teaching, you may need to consider the digital ways too. As you start your entrepreneurship journey, read up a few books which will help you along the way.
Here is some tips on learning how to prepare of teaching online as well as a few aggregatig sites which are active in India as online teaching platform
How students select online teachers
Private tutoring is a serious business. The satisfaction of your client, here students, will determine your success of your career here with the help of your qualification and relationship with your students. The online reviews play a very important part in getting more leads. Every student can be your brand ambassador.
You can begin with a Youtube channel or taking a few online class for your existing student base to begin with.
Make your own course set
This would be to help you set up your base, you may choose to teach on youtube, blog or a online teaching platform, if you set up a course for the topic, you will be one-step up for starting your online coaching class.
Do some dummy practice
It is a good idea to do a dummy practice on friends/ colleague and near ones to polish the rough edges on content and presentation. You may video record dummy classes and in the process you edge up your skills in digital communication, a must for online teaching jobs. You need to be willing to learn the ropes distance teaching.
Good internet interphase
A phone with good memory, microphone, tripod, laptop arrangement, some software (advantage but not necessary) and seamless internet connectivity will smoothen your process to help you quickly start the process
It will be a good idea to register in few sites at one go to test which ones suits you the best. You will get an idea about the membership fee, and leads they are providing.
www.superprof.co.in
Superprof launched in 2013, in France as a project, over 7 years, it has become a a community of 11.5 million teachers across globe. It offers classes on academics, arts and craft, Computer scene, Health and well being, music, sports a wide range offering. The best part of the website is, it gives you a teaching platform for hobbies you may have pursued for years without any hope of making a career out of it. This may be a learning curve to you and step for the next career move or step-up promotion from current scenario. You can register in this website in 10 simple test, choose your specialisation from the option. Choose from individual class or a group class.
Make a simple advertisement entry with the subject and age-group of students, make a small CV to upload, a sample video course if you like and a few additional details, in all its a 30 minutes step. Write down your fee, upload your picture and you are done. It is a free registration, but you can boost your profile visibility by a paid membership. An example – If you like drawing, say you have multi year experience, passionate about it, you may be thinking about teaching others and earning some money too. But, you dont know where to begin, here is your chance, you can easily signup to the website as a teacher and access the student across globe, who is looking for a teacher.
Register – https://www.superprof.co.in/new-advert-subject.html
Vedantu
It is an academic platform, it offers high school courses and academic entrance exams, like – JEE, NEET, NDA etc. Vedantu is Co-founded by Vamsi Krishna, Pulkit Jain and Anand Prakash, it is their 2nd entrepreunal journey after Lakshya launched in 2006 and sold to MT Educare in 2012. They have great experience in teaching in India. If you aspire to be a teacher here, you have to fill one page form which will take about 15 minutes, remember to make a resume, it will be useful in applying in these options.
Registere here to be a teacher – https://www.vedantu.com/become-a-teacher
Urbanpro
This site boasts of 6 lakhs registered teachers and 25 lakhs+ students registered at their platform. It is widely featured in media.
This I had an hands on experience. This super professional website has a turn around time of less than 2 hours. I had applied for a course, within 3 hours, I was contacted by 3 qualified teachers from vicinity. This one has wide range of variety including online, home tuition and tuition at teacher’s place. It offers classes for high school students, BTech,, CA Coaching, Competitive exams like UPSC, IBPS, SSC etc. It offers language classes like – Italian, German, Spanish and list is long. Do check the website to find out more. You can register yourself as a teacher filling an easy form, which will take about 15 minutes. Register here – https://www.urbanpro.com/tutor-teacher-trainer-job-registration-india/134847
UDEMY
It is an international aggregator website, popular in India.This is an advanced academic aggregator platform and provides online courses and certification of variety subjects and ranges. It collaborates with teachers and institutions to build courses which students can learn without live teacher interface – mostly through recorded videos, written material followed by quizzes and online examination. You can upload your profile easily. Visit https://www.udemy.com/teaching/?ref=teach_header to register as a teacher.
Freelance jobs/ self-employement is liberating with a sense of independence. But to make it a success, one needs to be committed and continuously update oneself to stay relevant and grow. Entrepreneurship is a beautiful journey. Wish you all the best.
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