 Hey guys, it's Liza here, and I'm happy to welcome you to a new ITTT's live stream It's been a week and I missed you so much guys I hope that today's live stream is gonna be Interesting because it is actually pretty unique Today, I'm not going to Present as usually Today we have a nice guest from a platform called progress me so for those of you who are really interested in Starting your own business or probably teaching as a freelancer This live stream is gonna be Absolutely helpful. So stay tuned and Just in a moment our speaker is going to join us and secondly When you join us, please let me know if you hear and see me clearly because I'm not completely sure how the equipment works and if you Type in a comment if you type in something That may help me understand that you can hear and see me It will be really nice. 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We are gonna We are gonna start in a moment, but let me know that my equipment works So let me know that you hear and see me clearly okay And another thing I would like to mention is that today's live stream is gonna be delivered by a Really interesting interesting guest from a platform called progress me I bet you don't know this one yet because it's more famous around Russia but they are actually going to go to the Western countries as well. So this live stream is going to be interesting and helpful in this perspective and Also, just as a reminder, we have this nice QR code with a bonus of 30% of any online TEFL courses So if you feel like you would like to have a TEFL course Just feel free to scan it or you can also Follow this link from the chat box and that is all for this introductory part. I'm going to add our speaker and ray to this live stream and Just enjoy watching and if you have questions related to online tutoring for Russian ESL students or just online tutoring in general, feel free to ask them. Okay, so Welcome and ray in the live stream Okay, so hi and ray nice to see you Thanks Yeah, you can present yourself and I'm gonna switch off my camera just to let this live stream be yours Okay All right Well first things first. I still can't see any comments of yours and I still I'm still not sure if I even not alone in here So please guys, if it's not a trouble for you just type something Just literally anything in the comment section to let me know you're here to let me know that I'm not alone I'm not just talking to my computer like crazy Yeah, and then we'll start and while you're at it, there's the presentation on screen Oh, yeah, Washington Philippines. Hi, Korean. I hope I'm I pronounce in this name correctly cuz If if I'm not correct, please Please excuse me. I'm not really good at reading names Especially those which are not Russian. My name is Andre. By the way, so name is T. Kanoff Okay, so Kerry is here Anyone else anyone else? So here on the screen you can see my accounts on social media if you have any questions Any comments, maybe just one, you know to chat about some random stuff, please Let me know subscribe to my pages on social media. I'm on VK and I'm on Instagram and That's part of what I'm going to be talking about today right so Okay, to me it seems like we're going to have one on chat with With Philippines, which is totally nice So what I'm going to talk about today is How to teach English online in Russia? Oh, yeah, again, Josie. Hi Josie, Philippine again, great Great. Hi from Russia All right, so We'll be talking about how to get your students in Russia without actually moving to Russia going to Russia because everything is possible online today and You know when I was preparing this presentation was getting ready for this dream. I asked myself. All right So what would I do if I were from another country and wanted to teach in Russia? How would I approach this scenario? How would I do that and? Yeah, the result of this contemplation is kind of this presentation this stream I hope it will be useful for you because Generally, you could actually implement this advice. I guess not only for Russia, but so pretty much for anywhere in line It's just I'm Russian. I'm from Russia and I teach Russian. So that's Something I can talk about. Oh, right, Philippines again Got anyone not from Philippines here Just let me know or is it only Philippines that I Correct. Yeah, Filipinos other only Filipinos who've come to listen to me very nice to see you Okay So, let's move on Next slide. Yeah So something about me. Let's start. Let's start with the getting acquainted. Hi Adam from Egypt. Yeah, great to have you So I started my tutoring my teaching English career in 2012 when I was still a university student I was I guess it was a third year or fourth year. Not really good with numbers I'm a humanitarian student. Yeah So then after graduation, I thought a little beating of English at university But then I quit because the universities are very much regulated here in Russia and students are not very motivated to learn English at universities So I decided to go to some Special places where only motivated people come to learn English and I joined the and offline language school the problem with that school was that I Had classes in different parts of town. I I'm not from a very big town In Russia, it's called Camerova Camerova. You can Google that But still I mean moving from neighborhood to neighborhood moving from one district to another to just like in the morning I could teach in one area of the town then In the afternoon, there would be Another area of the talent was kind of frustrating for me I wanted just to like to get stuck to one location and not move a lot so I decided to go online and Because it was I guess it was 2015 2016 maybe Back when online classes and online lessons were not that popular So I did to get some experience and in order to get some experience. I joined some online language school it's one of the most famous in Russia and Yeah, it's it's a good place to start if you lack Experience teaching online at all and you want to get some experience get some student But you don't want to do that all by yourself Yeah, but I mean as a long-term career choice It might not be the best if we talk about a Russian online schools Just because they charge students much more than they pay you it's like they charge they pay you only like 30% maybe maybe even 20% of what they charge and My idea was that okay, so if the students are willing to pay that much for my lessons Then why do I even need the middleman? So I decided to go self-employed Clean heart. Hey, how's it going? So, well, what's the weather in Bangkok by the way here? Yeah, I'm in Kazan. I'm in Russia and it's it's pretty cool here It's pretty chill So back to my story and I went self-employed in 2017 and Yeah, the biggest challenge was to get my first students, but because I was quitting from this online language school I just got some students from there and they joined me in my individual career and from like starting in 2017 until Maybe March 2021 that was all I was doing. I was just teaching English Tutoring individual classes Four years all working only online and I discovered this amazing platform, which I'm going to talk about Platform called progress me which is a very nice tool kind of all in one tool for for teaching English not only English like any other for teaching foreign languages and Could be used with any foreign language basically. It's very flexible. So I started using this platform but it was kind of raw back then it was just a startup with very few functions very few features, so I just contacted the guys I contacted the Founders the people from that platform with feature requests. I wrote a lot of feature requests I thank them for you know for developing such an amazing tool Which can solve a lot of teachers problems and then they kind of offered me a job then like if for if I If I bother them with feature requests anyways, so why won't I do that myself? And that's why I became a product owner with progress me, but I still continue to To teach English classes Of course, like I don't have so many students now But nevertheless, I have a few tips to share especially if you're at the beginning of your careers and especially if you're considering Working with the students from Russia because like my presentation is going to be about What the students from Russia are like how to approach them how to find them to teach them what not to teach them about English and so on and so forth Look in a chat now Cheers from Angola. Oh, I'm goal and goal is very nice I know about Angola Cuz I I dance. I'm learning to dance Kizomba is it an Angolan dance. I think it is Hi Yeah, you said I hope I pronounce I'm pronouncing that correctly. So if not, please forgive me You serve from Algeria. Hi All right, so Let's move on here enough enough talking about me. Let's talk about Russia Why should you even consider Russia your market? Why should you even look for students in Russia? Well, first of all, it's obvious Russia is huge and there are many people here 147 million people and right like I think nine times old and When it's morning in Moscow, it's already evening in Vladivostok and you kind of you can get your students for all day, I mean only in Russia like First you teach evening classes for Vladivostok, then you teach some evening classes for Siberia Then you teach again evening classes on Moscow But in your time zone that could be like morning afternoon and that evening So it's it's very easy to like to get students from all across Russia and also English despite of being in spite of being part of National curriculum. It's being taught as cool but the average level of English here in Russia is pretty low like not many people speak English But a lot of people believe that they need English to get better opportunities in life get very jobs to get you know to tell you honest truth Russia is not very well off economically in terms of population in general like the majority of population is poor and the thing is that Lots of job lots of lots of jobs lots of jobs that are well-paid they One of the requirements for those are is Knowing English speaking English fluently. That's why English is the language of opportunity in Russia and People here really really want to improve their level. So the tutors of English are in high demand in here And I guess that's a really good mark like the attitude towards Taking classes from tutors here is really good. A lot of people have tutors lot of school students a lot of university students and even like even adult people adult people like who are 25 or older they Okay, like one more truth about English in Russia. What is being taught at schools? It's not best quality English oftentimes because the salaries of the school teachers is quite low and They're not really motivated to teach in the groups are big and You know the students at schools are not really motivated. They kind of They learn English because they have to at schools But when they when they grow older when they understand the importance of English and more world everything changes They become motivated. They become interested. That's why adult people Who need language who need the language for their jobs who need English in order to succeed in life? They are your market like English for job interviews English for business or just I mean English for travel is also nice most of the requirements would be English just no conversational English Spoken English for traveling for just basic understanding of the world So and then why online going so if actually so good, why why don't we just go to Russia and Teach here Yeah the thing is that you might but you don't actually have to because Here a lot of people like even in my hometown a lot of people would have classes with me online They want to make go somewhere in office or in language school or they want to invite anyone at their home They just like want to have their classes in their fingertips Always available from anywhere where there is Indra and the internet is enormous. So it's if you work online It's not only Russia where you can get students. It's anywhere pretty much anywhere The second reason why we should go online is that pandemic I Don't know how it is about in your countries, but in Russia while the limitations are pretty mild But it's still there COVID-19 is still around Unfortunately people still get ill and of course those who are concerned with concerned with their safety They don't want too much personal contacts. They don't want to like To be in a transport a lot. They don't want to go to some office and they just prefer to stay at home and One more pro of teaching online is that you don't have to stay in one location You can travel the world and anywhere. There is the internet. Well, there's your workplace. The whole world is your market place That's why I'm strong support of online teaching and online learning Alright guys, so we said hello to each other. Just give me some feedback. Alright, so write something What do you think like what do you think of Russia? Have you ever considered as your market? Have you ever considered teaching in Russia? Um, did you try teaching online or do you think that? Live classes are the best. I mean like face-to-face classes are the best to me. Good. Yeah, good And while you are still writing your comments, I hope you are doing it guys just I'm just I'm sitting here alone in the room and I really want some feedback because Otherwise, I would feel like I'm crazy and talking to myself So let's move on Oh profile of Russian ESL students. Yeah Let's amend that that would be off here, okay So what are Russian ESL students like? first of all majority of them majority of them are afraid of making mistakes and being judged by their teacher because the school system the Education system in Russia. It's all about getting marks and it's all about avoiding mistakes It's about getting the task right, but the thing with English that you well, I don't know maybe maybe we could Argue about that, but I strongly believe that if you don't make enough mistakes You won't be able to learn English properly. You won't improve as fast. So If you Russian students try not to be judgmental about their mistakes try not to overcorrect them, but You know why the room for Why the room for learning on their mistakes? So again Nice, let me know in the chat. What do you think about mistakes in English? Should we judge them? Should we try to correct them all the time or should we just leave me a Second thing about Russian ESL students is that Mostly they wouldn't work with Somebody who is no non-russian speaker Until they reach some certain level of understanding English again It all comes from being afraid of making mistakes like either Under be one level if they're lower than intermediate They would prefer to have lessons with Russian speaking to just because they don't want that awkwardness of like not understanding native speaker, they would want that awkwardness of you know Not knowing what to say and not being able to ask because they would need language in order to ask for To the words they need the phrases they need Yes, so basically try to look for somebody who Speaks a certain degree of English at least I would recommend Be one level to be honest, but I mean you can you can try it with lower levels. So who knows maybe you'll get lucky Then they don't lack a lot of grammar explanations they prefer practice they lack speaking practice They lack conversational English here. They're fed up with grammar They're fed up with like written exercises. They get too much of it at schools so what they really need and what might be your advantage as Non-Russian speakers or native English speakers is that you can You can give them you can provide them a lot of speaking practice and Like falling back to Russian would not be an option for their students. So conversational English is something that You might try to teach here and also Lots like majority of people here if you ask them, okay, so why do you want to learn English? Why do you need it? The answers would vary of course, but like the majority would be wanting to learn English for traveling or business just two things like work working and Traveling that's two things that where they need be or whether they need English and Yeah, here is what you can target for So to sum up some words of advice on teaching Russian students Don't teach lower levels leave that to Russian speakers and Russian tutors Use the fact that you don't speak Russian to your advantage Although I mean you can always use Google translate Google translate works pretty well with English and Don't hesitate to use it if you if you're new students don't really understand you I mean, it's totally alright to use machine translation in order to like to to feel this communication gap then focus more on vocabulary focus more speaking practice some chunks of the language then on grammar just provide lots of practice and Not so much of theory Theory is what they get a lot of at school and without sufficient practice that's kind of useless Okay, do you have a specific program that we can use to teach English? Well I'll cover that later in my presentation. There will be some words on programs but I mean Generally speaking what you teach your students should depend on your students needs You can't just like one-size-fits-all you can't devise one-size-fits-all program one-size-fits-all curriculum That would be applicable for every student request. So you should flexible about that and your Your program should vary I mean Of course, if you mean program As as if as in the curriculum program or if you mean program as software Then yeah, you can use progress me will cover that later software is just progress me It's the only tool you will ever need trust me. I'm not using anything else for I Haven't been using anything else for maybe like two or three years. I hope that answers your question good person And what's really important when you When you teach English to Russians is your pronunciation. I'll say it should be I Received pronunciation like you know that Porsche that Porsche British, you know Quincy English, but At least your pronunciation should be comprehensible. So don't Don't speak too fast speak clearly Speak so that students could be able to understand you. Well, that's that's important Right Can you tell us a little bit about the most things that Russian students need to improve English in? Well, I can't say about the most things because again, that would be different from From person to person that depends on who you teach But basically They lack speaking practice and they lack this natural sound in English. They lack Yeah, I mean What they do in English is basically they just take their thoughts in Russian They translate them and they think it's England, but it's more than that. I mean English chunks English vocabulary and It's it's a completely different system. So what they actually Need to improve Well, they they need to improve their understanding of Naturalness There is such a word of net or naturality of their English. So they want to They want to sound There was a normal not strange in English, but basically that's what they have to improve And if you ask about those Zones of English, I don't know like vocabulary pronunciation grammar all again Vocabularies and speaking and fluency are go-to skills Pronunciation also might be improved, but Me Yeah, it's it's not the majority if not what the majority of students in Russia Want to learn English for the want to use it for communication basically and again Traveling and business are your best bets as As teachers who are Non-Russian citizens who don't crush Right. So let's talk about prices. Yeah, how much to charge Russians how much should they are willing to pay? Well in Russia It's better to charge in rubles You can use some services that can convert money between currencies like PaySend, for example, if you have PaySend in your country, you can Charge them in rubles and then you can get money in your own currency And yeah, so the prices again they vary depending on your experience depending on your level of English depending on On lots of factors marketing would not be the last of them But generally speaking like 500 is just top-down to you like don't go below 500 rubles seven or that is It's too low 2000 rubles Which is approximately 25 dollars. Well, that would be kind of kind of a prize that people in Moscow are willing to pay for one hour of lessons, but again You can experiment with those you could You could you could try, you know different prices and see who comes to your to your classes because it's it all depends It all depends if you want to know what I charge I charge Well, first of all, I don't I don't charge for every hour. I charge in sort of Like prepaid eight lessons Subscription or certificates or membership or whatever you might call it Just they pay me in advance for eight classes and that costs 10,000 rubles with me Which would be Approximately 100 no, yeah Around 120 dollars, maybe something like that Well, one dollar is 70 Again approximately 70 75 rubles so you could you could do the math but I charge them in advance for 10 classes and And Yeah, so one class would typically cost around 20 dollars with me. Maybe it's like Maybe 17 again, it depends Yeah Right guys, if you have any questions at that point, so feel free to ask and we're moving on so better charging rubles Get the pay send if you don't have a Russian bank account Paypal is also an option, but bear in mind that you will have to do some onboarding with Paypal you'll have to teach your students how to actually use it maybe like shoot some video and and send it to them right so Let's go to the most important question. I guess that's that's the goal to question Where do I get my first students from Russia? Well Most of Russian people are on social media. They spend lots of time on social media I guess that's pretty much the same as anywhere in the world and you go to social media would be Instagram Because Instagram has very nice coverage and you could just Know publish lots of stories publish lots of posts so you can kind of shot some short video lessons and subscribe to those people in Russia who Who teach English and well sooner or later you'll get noticed just write about yourself. Just Make them know let them know know that you are your first students you're looking for Somebody to learn English with you And sooner or later you'll get you'll get your students or if not you could just I don't know directly just subscribe to people and Write them in direct messaging start to start with selling just start with the general conversations and maybe Just to let them know that you are looking for students And if they have some friends or acquaintances or anyone who is interested in improving the English that They could address you about that Other social media you might consider will be the K.com but Russian social media and A lot of Russians are registered there, but to be honest, it's not as popular as Instagram and the courage is not as good there YouTube is also a good choice if you are into video production and if you can shots shot some short short lessons and Yeah, like you could just publish your short lessons on YouTube and then you may say this You're looking for students and if they like you they'll write to you another option would be like if you don't want to Spend too much time or money or whatever or your energy on social media would be just joining some online school There are lots of them in Russia. Just Google Online English school in Russia and you'll get so lots of lots of job offers and they typically hire native speakers, but you know the Problem here would be that they pay really low Low salaries low fees there So if it's not a problem for you should just looking for a place to start you start with online schools but I would say It's not a It's not a go-to. It's not a best choice to like for a permanent occupation in Russia Next one would be some aggregators some resources middleman parties, but you can publish your You could publish your description They're like profit that are you Repetitors that info Repetitor dot are you and again, they're just basically a collection of Different tutor descriptions. You could just send your description there and wait for your students to appear Well, it's again Not the best way because the competition there is quite quite high And finally just make friends with Russians again new social media use like you can even use tinder or whatever but make friends with them and Just ask around First of all, you'll give them the opportunity to practice their language and then maybe they know somebody who is in need of a teacher of English and Just don't hesitate to to ask them about that So basically here are the main channels I would use If I was not from Russia, but if I was looking for some Russian student of English Right, I'll make a little break to read your comments and chat Hi, there is Is there an ESL company companies in Russia that hire non-native speakers teach Russian students? Yeah, there are lots of them just Google around basically Lots of online schools even offline schools in Russia. They do hire native speakers typically they don't Well, they won't give you some groups or individual classes Teach like separately from their general courses unless you have this background in linguistics unless you have this education That proves that you're you're not only a speaker of English, but you're also Aware of how to teach it because you know if you should know about methodology to get your groups and classes in Russian online offline schools, but There is always room for such Such vacancies as speaking club host or Just, you know, you could always be helpful You could always join as a second teacher or something like that So there's always a opportunity and lots of people are hiring native speakers Oh You're asking about no native speakers to teach Russian students again It doesn't really matter if you are of course like they prefer people from the US from Britain from Australia or whatever those countries were native stitch, but I mean the idea that you don't know Russian is also It might be considered as an advantage. Just again, you can always host speaking clubs and the idea that you cannot Resorts to Russian Well, it's helpful. It would be always helpful. So greetings from Myanmar. Hi Let's move on What your students would want to know about your classes about your lessons before they join They would want to know about the results they can get About the process of learning about the time that it will take them to reach their goals About the prices of course and about how comfortable it is to work with you. So Try to address all those questions try to answer those questions in your description Especially in social media, especially when you publish on some aggregator resources Basically try to cover that all in your CV because they would want to know that and As for like how comfortable it is to work with you, I guess that's the most important one because you have to show them your personality and That's why I recommend to post and publish some videos Maybe some I don't know some ex excerpts from the lessons from your classes may be some Educational videos something that some explanation videos basically is something that shows them that okay Oh, this person is great. I would like to have him or her as a teacher Next one Social media accounts basically how to run your social media accounts if you want to get students to with them First we'll use all types of content available there if it's possible to publish some texts Publish some texts if it's possible to upload videos upload your videos Publish your photos. So like basically everything Stories reels if we're talking about Instagram Everything goes and try to mix don't be too attached to just one type of content try to mix it Design and visual appearance of your account is important It should be pleasant to look at so think about that as well if you don't really understand how to do that how to Make your account how to make your page on social media visually appealing just Try to look for guidance in this fear try to find somebody who knows or maybe just copy cat I mean subscribe to your competitor who also teach English to that market to Russian students Borrow some ideas Copying is not theft I think and yeah, if it works for them, it would probably work for you One more word of advice is that showing your lifestyle is more important than just you know endless stream of lessons However short lessons videos. They are also important. They they demonstrate the process they show how experts you are how expert you are and Basically, you should always collect feedback from your students like if you already have students collect feedback Publish publish their feedback on your on your social media pages. It would be well, it would make your page more credible and More trustworthy so to say and lots of people choose their teachers by you know by reading the feedback from other students And last but not least use target advertising if you don't know how to do that Well, watch a few YouTube videos of how to how to How to target advertising work for you how to configure it's it's not rocket science It's quite easy to learn but again if you don't want to do that yourself find somebody who can do that and Pay the money for that. So I'll do it for you and that there that really works. I mean without Are the advertising you won't get much of your social media account So you should always be aware that you need lots of lots of traffic lots of Lots of people who just who are your subscribers who are following your life on social media and like sometimes You can get a subscriber say in I don't June and only in September or October they decide to become your student But they will be following you all the time and they'll be watching you. So Publish something regularly on your social media your target advertising show your lifestyle post short lesson basically that's That's one of the most important sources for your students, especially in Russia World of mouth world of mouth is basically how lots of people look for services in Russia They look for recommendations. They ask their friends. They communicate a lot. They ask their friends and Recommendation of a friend is the best marketing you can get So if you get recommended Chances are you'll get that student there. They'll be very Very ready To start classes with you So how to make it work how to make word of mouth advertising work for you? Well simple. It's simple as it gets teach high quality lessons be friendly be supportive. Don't be judgmental Help your students achieve your goals be more path to them than teachers Be energetic and enthusiastic or vice versa. I don't know sometimes people like strict people like very Very precise very serious Just find your way to the heart of your students and you're working for them. You're trying to Make them achieve their goals and always collect feedback like don't hesitate to ask them about each and every lessons like what's what new things they have learned what What they liked about the lesson? What may they didn't like about the lesson anything anything you can collect would help you adjust your lessons for later That's one thing and basically that would help you improve the quality of your teaching which gets you lots of recommendations and Again, you can always explicitly ask all your students and other acquaintances Especially Russian acquaintances to recommend you like just just tell them to do that Say it would be really nice if you know somebody who is also in need of an English class of an English teacher And yeah, I would be really really grateful If you recommended somebody to me if you recommended me to somebody and Well, it's my policy. I always reward people who bring some students Bring some pain students to me. I Always try to like to pay them some like one time One time fee sorry so speak and sink as a thank you gift. So guys are you still there? Let me know if what I'm talking about is helpful to you Give me some feedback, please because again It's been a while since I've read anything new in the chat And I'm starting to think that everyone is gone because I'm I can't see How many of you are watching right now? I can't see how many you are listening to me so some feedback would be really helpful and Yeah, please please do that. Please give me some feedback How many minutes you teach for each lesson? Typically one hour 60 minutes How do you handle beginners? I don't teach beginners in Well, I I try to use a lot of Russian with beginners to be honest It's more about it's more about drilling basically we drill some basic English construction We focus on pronunciation. We focus on reading rules or we focus on some basic grammars and grammar rule And basically that's that's mostly drilling to be honest and if I were you I wouldn't take up beginners If you are no if you don't know any Russian at all Great, yeah, this is Karen Rod from Trinidad the English speaking Caribbean Caribbean great The info is useful. This is a very good. Oh nice. It's I'm so happy to read that guys You can't imagine how important the feedback is to me You're talking and we are thinking how to sell ourselves If that's a question good person, I'm not sure how to answer that. Yes, you are well, yeah Wasting what you determine the fees and it will be per lesson per month. Okay Well, the fees is basically for you to to decide Just whatever you're comfortable to work with I'm sure you'll find the market for it. I mean within reasonable Within reasonable it's but basically I I determined my fees based on The market like how much the other teachers so With the same qualification charge for their lessons I I try to think how much I need in order to afford my living Without working too much and we're working And I think how much would be comfortable for me to get For doing that kind of job. That's that's what I'm thinking about like how much am I willing to sell an hour of my life for That's the bed of the main question. I asked myself when I determine the fee and I charge for eight Lettons in advance. I collect advance payment that will help you because This way they won't skip too much classes to many classes. Yeah, and they won't skip too many classes and also Think of that. It's always painful to Give away your money even if it's for the good cause It's always painful for a person to give the money no matter the amount. I mean, it's as painful to To give somebody a dollar as it is to give somebody ten dollars so if you don't have a choice you'll still have to Custom paying to your clients when they pay you just try to Make it not as frequent. I mean once a month of pain is better than Every lesson then they have to think about payments and sometimes they forget sometimes They just not in the mood to attend class and you should always in advance agree on On your rules of what you do if they don't attend like to give them or do you just charge them anyway because of your time and That's it always is always useful to It's always useful to collect some advanced payment, but again you could You could organize your own system pretty much anything works here. It's whatever you're comfortable with Right What would you recommend? Okay, okay, just One moment. Yeah, the next question. I'm learning. I find your life session helpful. Thank you for sharing. Oh, thank you Thank you for your feedback. It's very important to me What would you recommend to use while teaching develop students online with intermediate levels or higher? Vida, please Specify your question like what do you mean use? I mean like what sort of teaching materials are used. I Basically Well, I teach on progress me and there's lots of pre-made materials there. I also use some Some Oxford or Cambridge course books. For example, my favorite one is a new English file. It's it's really good. It's very very well structured Basically again, it all depends on the goals of the student and it all depends on On what kind of English? Yeah, in terms of resources games. Mm-hmm. Oh, I'm not here to actually advise on resources that again, I try to First I try to just figure out what the person needs in for what he or she will be doing with that Knowledge and with that skill when they When they learn and I I try to use their interest as a starting point like what they're interested in and I try to collect the topics So based on according to their interest So that's that's basically what I use in terms of resources and in terms of a platform I I use progress me and like closer to the end of this Closer to the end of this webinar, I'll show you progress me and how it works All right, I Would like to ask you if you could give us one of your teaching demos Well Yeah, there are some on the K page. I mean you could go to my the K page and I kind of Yeah, there are there are some but they won't be very easy to find because I typically Recorded those demos so in order to get new students, but then they Then I start to get lots of students by word of mouth So I didn't need to advertise anymore. So I I had to like stop my advertising and you know It won't be so easy to find any of my teaching demos, but I don't think you you actually need those because Like who cares what other teacher is doing you try to build up your own unique style What what I'm what I'm doing is a teacher works for me and it works for me only because of what type of person I am and what type of what type of task what type of Activities click with me and I try to get them to my student and you know It's It will depend it will depend like don't try to get something ready to do try to try to find something within you that Makes your lessons unique. Don't look for ready-made solutions for that with that. So that That's all I can say about well, that's all I can say about my teaching style my teaching demos and Just Yeah Do you test your students in the first lessons to know their levels? Yeah, of course I do Typically the first session with me is free of charge Although I still take this prepayment just in order to make sure that they will tend but If they decide to have classes with me, I will just give them a discount of Discount with that prepaid amount so they don't lose anything basically and The first session with me is free. I just get to know the person get to know their goals get to know if I Able to help them because I don't teach lots of categories. I don't teach for example, for example, I don't teach Young learners, I don't teach well teenagers are sort of a gray area for me Only if I get asked so Basically my type of student would be adult person who needs English for traveling for business and work and just you know as a sort of a general knowledge Yeah, and my way of testing that would be just to you know to have Conversation with them and see how much language they know already what level they are. It's typically very easy to Determine I mean I ask them a few Present simple questions a few passing questions some continuous questions, you know, and I try to touch different general interests Speaking topics like we talk about books cinema whatever whatever they're interested in basically I talk about their hobbies But what they did yesterday and you know, by the way, they answer that It already becomes clear what level they are so I don't take any extensive testing Doesn't need to be like that Yeah, you know when someone wants to teach English to foreigners, how do you design your lessons? Depends how do you design the program that you want to teach your students from setting a goal for your program to achieve? Well, that would be a topic for entirely different for entirely different conversation and Answering that question Take me like another Not two hours of time But yeah, like design the program is basically Yeah, it depends on the goal so and I use lots of scaffolding I guess like I take this goal and try to decompose it and I try to kind of Okay, so this lesson we're working on this aspect of language How can I achieve that? So what's the language chunks? What language units we will work on today? and I try to create some exercises Based on those units Something like that. So let's move on. I guess there are no more questions here if you have any again just type them in your comment section and I will and I will answer them Oh groups After teaching some individuals you might want to start working with groups because it's Well, it's more efficient And it's more efficient in terms of time and money Like you spend less time, but you get more money for working with groups and the typical group size, which would be effective and efficient online I would say start with Well, it's raining like four to maybe maximum of eight people and how to teach groups again is a topic for an entirely different discussion, but You I'm going to talk about how to organize group how to even like collect students for your group how to gather them into a group Uh again back to social media You need an advertising campaign that says that you are looking for a group of this level this curriculum and Around this advertising campaign started two weeks in advance Like okay, so set the date for the start of classes and to before that start your advertising campaign collect the uh You could start with collecting emails collecting phone numbers so that you By the time that the group starts, uh, learning sessions you will be able to contact them all It's better, but uh, not Not exactly necessary to collect prepayments if your students are willing to prepay for For the group classes offer them a discount Maybe then they will be willing to prepay, but again, that's not exactly necessary. So you could just Announce that okay We Our schedule is this and that the classes start In that day and basically wait until your group is gathered Mixed level groups are easier to fill but again, you have to know how to teach mixed levels group mixed level groups It's not really my expertise. It's not really my cup of tea, but I believe that if you are willing to get Lots of students fast. So you should try to look at how to How to teach mixed level groups and again speaking clubs speaking club is your go-to option if you want to Gather some people in one place just Start your own speaking club make Well, reasonably affordable entry fee for that don't make it free once in a while and Announce in your social media that you're organizing the speaking club and After that after that while when everybody is connected when everybody's in the speaking club you can also Say that you are offering actual classes actual group classes and anybody Who is considering such an option is welcome Well, uh, that's pretty much It that's what I wanted to share with you on how to how to start your career in russia teaching russian english how to Organize you how to find students in russia for online classes And now I'd like to share something about the tool that I'm using while teaching online Maybe someone Has already heard of progress me Maybe hear about it for the first time. Anyway, I'll Demonstrate how it works just in a in a few minutes But first of all, just let me tell you something about it and why it's a go for Uh Decision and solution for online classes for teaching online. First of all, it's just everything you need is in one browser tab video conference calls For now, it's only work. It only works with individual students, but we are working all Introducing the group conferences as well You can teach live classes with More than 30 types of interactive exercises interactive means everything is clickable everything like there are typeable gaps your students might feel there are pictures there are videos and basically There is catalog of ready-made lessons which you can use just, you know, take it and use it with your students No preparation needed and also If you have something specific in mind something that you want to Prepare for your specific student. We have a flexible lesson builder again with 30 plus types of templates And the best thing about it is all the actions of a student and a teacher Are synchronized and they're visible in real time like your student types in the answer to some sort of Exercise and you see it you see it immediately There is also an opportunity to assign homework and there is automatic checking There is automatic checking there Last but not least scheduling you can schedule your classes. You can control the attendance of your students And what's more you can use the promo code ittt where easy to remember to get the four dollar bonus for your first for your first payment and now i'm going to Demonstrate a little bit how progress me works just in order to do that. I have to Share a different tab in my Chrome browser And there we go So this is what you'll see or when you get a register. That's your schedule and Here it's it's not my working account. It's a demo account So you won't see my actual students here in my actual materials But you'll get the idea and here like you can see that classes with those students have already passed and they attend it But if they didn't I would easily change it change the status of this lesson and And yeah, and it turns pink It turns pink. So I know that student was absent from the class and the classes themselves They Take place in the virtual classroom So here You basically pick a material pick a lesson for your student you simultaneously access progress me with your student and There we go. You're ready to work on your On your materials on your lessons simultaneously take some time to load, but There we go. So here is this Video conference unit you may not use it if you prefer zoom or skype or anything else It's not necessary to use it But basically when your student is online and in classroom You will see whatever they are doing like for example They can feel the gap And if they do it You will also see it There are different types of um asks here. We have different sections of the lesson Again, it's taking some time to load just because I'm Using my internet connection To talk to you guys There are pictures There are matching exercise. You can match words with pictures. You can see the hints here The hints are only available for teachers. Your students won't see them and lots of flexible types of exercises picking exercises reading exercises And lots of other types When it comes to listening you could use In your settings you could set up Possibility to listen at the same time. It means if you If you play the audio Your student will also hear it in that same position you you put your Your cursor to And again If the student plays the audio you will hear it the way he or she hears it Some tests here Also homework section you can assign homework And there are different stages for homework. So it can be done. It can be sent for a vision if your student Hasn't completed your homework this homework correctly. You could always Send it for a vision you could Communicate with them in a chat Again, it's working pretty slow today, but You can see how it works. So there is a chat. There is the vocabulary section sort of a mini dictionary for your students Where they can learn words They can train Practice with the words from their Vocabulary it's like, you know flash parts here and different types of exercises So choose the correct translation you could adjust translation like if you don't want the english to russian you could always Adjust the translation like english and the definition, for example from the dictionary All right, but I won't get too deep into that. There's also the regular verbs tab with russian translation And again, if your student is not russian speaker of the translation will Will differ in term Depending on their language of their native language first time or you could turn on and turn off And also you may change unit here And there is lots of materials. So let's talk about the materials Back to class Let's take a minute To wait while it's loading It doesn't usually work so slowly again as I'm as I'm saying It works like that because I am using my internet connection to talk to you guys Right, so your materials your teaching materials are here and in the catalog there are lots of Community made materials. They're free There's general english course. There's featured lessons. We're short lessons And we're different levels Different Oh, let's Let's look at uh some short lesson for example. Oh, come on. You're so slow. Yeah, there we go So let's take easy level. Yeah, and the lesson about animals and here you can preview Preview this lesson and if you like it You could invite a student For that lesson and you could add it to the virtual classroom and you could You could teach it No preparation at all However, if you want to Make something special if you want to prepare something unique something that is not in the catalog You could always go for personal courses tab And you can create your own course from scratch. I'll show you how to do it In a minute first. I well, let's let's name it english for you four is like four Language of course with the english and you could choose whether or not to divide it into different sections You could upload the image for your course like you can see here, but I'm not going to do it right now And we create this course It's going to appear right here. There it goes We create a unit here again unit one You could choose any title unit one Create it and there we go here. It's solely customizable Just you could you decide what to name your warm-up. Yeah, what to name your sections You decide how many sections your lesson will have Add or date them and you could also select a template from Different sorts of templates you can upload pictures videos give animation files you could Do some gap feeling exercises asks just This is the template for essays audios Put the words in the right form like feeling the gap to exercise matching exercise word order exercises Choosing the correct form of the word exercise like true false Matching and matching like halves of the words of how halves of the sentences You can make the scrambled letters exercise sorting exercise Ordering paragraphs Link to some external resources teachers notes which your students won't see a collection of words which they would be able to add to your dictionary Recording is a bottom which allows your students to record their answer on their microphone And you could also if you're using miro or pdf some google drive or world wall or learn apps you can also add your Exercises from there to our course builder. So basically that's how it works. You just You just select a type of exercise Yeah, specify the task Like answer the question Choose some customizable settings And you know Orsters progress me And you could also set the number of correct answers add more questions if you want to and that's just one template I'm just trying to show you how tests work And there we go It appears right here. You could add another type of exercise just Feeling the gaps put the words that you need Fill in There it goes There it goes. It appears here again. You see those hints your students won't be able to see them And like that you could create your own totally customizable class It also has some features for For language courses some we call them marathons where you don't have to be present online and just create your course And you such a schedule your students go through the classes at Whenever whenever they're comfortable with that And yeah, basically that's that's pretty much the basics of how it works So and the best thing of all I'll show you how to how to use promo code You just go to your settings page. You go to promo code. You activate it here to type i Very easy to remember you can activate And you will get this special bonus of 300 rubles which you can use In your first payment in terms of subscription and pricing It depends on the amount of students you have and it varies From the amount of time you pay for the platform like first seven days Is free of charge and try you can Use all the features of the platform for free absolutely like for seven days It would be totally free after that It's just it depends on the number of these two of your students for your students. Yeah, the The platform is free completely You don't have to like your students don't pay for the platform You just pay for the amount of students you want to teach on that For example, if it's just two students, it would cost you like 380 rubles a month if you pay monthly or If you pay annually that would be 285 rubles. Oh, yeah, 300 rubles is approximately four us dollars 4.2 us dollars And again, the more students you want to invite the more expensive it gets but It's still very affordable It's good value for the money I I strongly believe that it's the best offer you can get in the market and Yeah, so basically when you Pre-pay your plan or during your free trial period you can add the students here So you ask your students email You specify their names here. You add your student and they appear in this list Each student has their individual Virtual classroom with their materials Which only they can see They all have they'll get their individual dictionaries and They well basically that's as if it was like individual classroom in offline school But now it's online. So very easy very much when Sorry Very manageable. Yeah, it gets hard for me talking One hour 20-minute non-stop. So so if I get stumbled over words Yeah By the way, it's it's my first public appearance on webinar in english. So let me know how I'm how I'm doing I'm really interested to learn to know that yeah, um As soon as you add your students you can Organize them and scheduling. They will also see what time the scheduling would be what time their next lessons are One of the great things here that you can adjust your displayed hours and your local time zone It would convert automatically depending on Your and your students time zone. So you just set up yours your students set up their Their time zone and you don't need to think about time zones. You just like Enter all your classes in your local time. Also, it's possible to organize students into groups and In groups you can teach any number of students up to 25 simultaneously although You will need to use some Some other solution for video conferencing. For example zoom or skype or whatever Telegram maybe But the virtual classroom worked wonderfully with groups. So basically here you can you could You could choose which students answer you want to see and For example, when they if they are online, unfortunately, I can't show you How it works with the online students just due to limitations of the webinar platform, but If they are both online if they're both doing this exercise, they won't see each other's answers But you will see this progress bar of how well they are doing like if it's turning green then It means that the answers are correct. If it's turning red If it's turning red then the others are not correct and What's more to that? that platform is Very customizable for schools. If you are planning to start your own language school You could always Let us know and we could brand this platform for your schools instead of progress me logo. There would be Logo of your school and you could add some teachers some accounts of teachers some accounts of different students administrators and it's like It's an lms. It's going to be an lms system in our solutions for school. So in order to activate if you want to activate your If you want to place your school on progress me platform, you could just send the request and We can do that all for you just our B2b sales person would Get in touch with you Will she will explain how it works in more detail and Also help configure it. Yeah, and that's pretty much. Yeah, that's pretty much all I wanted to tell you so Give it a try try progress me for free and also Also, don't forget that you have the special promo code Which you can enter in your settings. That would be I And there we go, uh, that's all I've got from Like that's all I've got content wise. So if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask And I'll get back Hey guys, I'm back as well. Uh, can you hear me? sure Well, I can definitely hear you Okay, awesome. That was a great presentation. I really enjoyed it And by the way, I also have been using progress me for some time And I really enjoy the one-on-one mode. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me in terms of the group teaching just because of some features That are not implemented there yet But I'm looking forward to it. And moreover as a student myself I also use progress me because my English teacher From the cpe class Organizes her lessons using progress me as well So I definitely enjoy this resource because it is super convenient For me as a student to reach out to all the materials and to progress and keep track of everything I have to do For example tomorrow is my lesson and I need to do some outstanding homework So it is right there. I don't have to find any notes. I don't I don't have to Get a book and so on. So it is super cool So I would say that for students there are even more benefits So I want to thank Andrei for coming to this live stream If you guys have any further questions related to progress me, you can reach out to Andrei via social networks or you can also contact me Just if you lose a link or something like that Anyway the link to the resources right there in the chat box I will also contact. I will also copy it one more time Just right now Just make sure you check out the page and yeah try it sometime Yeah, and I'd like to thank you all guys for hanging in there And thank you for coming to this live stream. Thank you to those who are Maybe watching it right now in the recorded way in the recording mode. Yeah and Yeah, a special thank you to those who wrote some comments in the chat because That made me feel I was not alone and Yeah, and Yeah, that was definitely helpful Yeah, that's really important guys And one more thing like progress me will soon change its brand name. It's going to be called ed vibe and we're doing that to Uh to enter some other markets outside russia. We're going to enter the usa markets Maybe indian market as well and You get this opportunity to be among the first users of progress me outside russia. So don't lose this chance And uh, you know what they say, uh, it's it's not important how fast you run. It's important how It's important when you start to try Yeah, start early Yeah, you should definitely try it, especially because of the Um Packages options like it is super affordable right now. Um, I know that there are some other Brands that have Systems alike, but unfortunately for me they costed too much and even some White boards, you know online white boards. They are also Expensive And for teachers it is not that convenient to use When when we have to spend like a fortune In terms of progress me it's And completely opposite situation Which is a great benefit So, um, so some solutions cost an arm or leg and progress means very affordable and also Talking of white boards. We are developing this feature right now. So it's going to appear in progress me one day Wait for it. It will be there. That's cool. That's cool. I'm I'm super happy to get this information first hand from the person who actually works in the company and it's Pleasant to be you know To have some power to influence Some changes and so on So thanks a lot for coming. Um, I hope that today's live stream was helpful and uh, you guys will definitely Check out this platform Make sure you um, at least go to the website and read and maybe activate. Um, you know this Seven day free trial just to play around Because it is vital when you find something new and interesting Um, and yeah, just let me say it once again. Thanks a lot for coming to the live stream sessions That are provided by it t t t I t t t is a taffle and t soul provider and if you guys are interested in Developing your teaching career and teaching skills You can find our coupon link in the chat box below as well Otherwise, you can scan the QR code at the top right corner and you will get a 30 discount of any taffle courses That is all for now. Uh, I will see you next week And I hope uh that you check out our recorded sessions as well because there are so many Important um questions discussed, uh and so on so make sure You check out our previous content as well and my colleague linda will go live This thursday or friday, not sure But we do two live stream sessions weekly See you next week guys. Bye. Bye And thanks a lot for coming. Yeah Thank you for having me. Have a nice day. Bye