I'll take you in my backpack

9/23/17 I meant to write this post a few days ago, when I actually hit the milestone, but, 200 classes! I would have gotten to this point sooner but I took a lot of time off this summer, and I don't really teach on weekends, the beauty of a flexible schedule! I want this blog post to be as helpful and beneficial as possible to those wondering about VIPKids so please, leave questions/comments if there is something more you would like to know! I'll start it off with some tips that I wish I knew prior to hitting my 200th class Tips If you plan to teach weekends, open the bookings (with the 24 hour booking option clicked) with less than 24 hours notice. Why? Because this will enable students to last minute book you, and for you to earn an extra $2 for each of those classes Make/use your own reward charts. Get creative. Set yourself out from other teachers Make your classroom (background) interesting but not distracting. Having a good "bulletin" that suppor...

6/11/17 I meant to write this post a few days ago when I got my numbers for May. VipKid calculates your pay for the month on the 6th of the following month (so June 6th, my May payment was calculated, then I will be paid on June 15th). May was my first full month with VipKid so I wanted to see what was actually possible (keep in mind I'm doing this part time now as I'm still working full time) Money Cutting to the chase I earned $1108.75 !! Not too shabby for part time work that I can do in my own home in addition to life! This is considered contract work so you do need to take your own taxes out. I'm not a tax professional so I won't be giving any advice on that, I personally set aside a percentage that works for me, and that way I'm not surprised at the end of the year! I've done this before as I've been in the contract work game for a while! Lessons Learned 1. A lot of students won't leave feedback. You can have a really awesome lesson a...

5/30/17 And sometimes I teach as a Unicorn! As of today I've taught 100 classes (just in the month of May)!! So is it worth it? I will say yes! I'm doing this part time (in addition to a full time job, and another part time job as an adjunct faculty at a University). So, had I been focusing on this full time and opening up more time slots, I could have made more money in May and taught even more classes. Now, the money! WITHOUT incentives factored in, my totals today, for the 100 classes are $745.50. I still have two more days of teaching in the month, then the incentives to add in, so I anticipate being around $1000 for May...for PART TIME work! I didn't book classes for a couple of weekends, for various reasons (if I had my numbers would be even higher!) Some other numbers for the month, I now have 32 "followers", several "regulars" that are very consistent in booking each week (some multiple times/week). The first few weeks of teaching I ha...

5/8/17 April's stats (I started officially 4/24, so this was the first day that I opened my schedule) I taught a total of 13 classes I made $129, making my hourly rate approximately $17.20/hour May is on target to be over $20 an hour with incentives, I just couldn't meet the April incentives fully because I had less than a week, and I didn't open up my weekends beyond an hour a day! My schedule this week is filling up more steadily than my April week did. I have 11 followers (students) As of today I have taught 24 classes I know that a lot of times it's hard to get an idea if something will be worthwhile or what you will actually make so I'm trying to be really transparent with how the process is going for me. Could I make more, yes, but I am not fully opening my evening hours, I'm also not fully opening weekends. Want to get started on this journey too? Click HERE No teaching experience necessary, no ESL experience necessary, you do need a Bachelor's d...

Now is a great time to apply because you can build your student base while school is still in session in China, then have a good student base for summer when more time slots open up! Requirements: That you have be a native North American English Speaker (US/Canada, or Europe if you don't have an accent!) You do not have to have ESL experience, or teaching experience, but you do need to like kids Positive energy Smile until your cheeks hurt during the interview/demo and Mock/s (they want good energy) The hiring process (I will explain all of these in more detail after outlining): Apply online HERE You will receive an email indicating that you have been selected (assuming you have!) to proceed to the next step, the Interview and 10 minute Demo Lesson Mock 1 (this is a full length 25 minute lesson with a current VipKid teacher in the US pretending to be a 5 year old student with very limited English)  you receive an email within 24-48 hours letting you know if you ...