Complete a minute interview which includes a minute demo class. The interview with SayABC takes place in the online classroom. You will need to answer a few general questions about your teaching experience. From there, you are expected to assume the interviewer is a real student and teach a minute demo class. Complete an orientation meeting and an evaluation class.
During the orientation meeting, a mentor will go through the basic platform operations and the teaching tools step by step. You will learn useful teaching tips from the mentor before your full mock class. Also, you have the chance to ask any questions you may have at that time. Evaluation classes: 1 on 4 classes lasting 40 minutes.
They also allow the Teacher Management team to evaluate and give training to new teachers. Two different types of feedback will be provided to teachers. If there is a concern with your teaching at this stage, you will get a training session with an experienced SayABC mentor.
Otherwise, you will receive written feedback with tips and suggestions for improvement before you start your first real class. SayABC has only group classes. If you prefer one-on-one teaching, it may not be a good fit for you. Since SayABC features group classes, they are quite strict about their technical requirements. SayABC recommends Logitech webcams. They also do not allow the use of third-party video effect software like ManyCam or YouCam.
Must have a built-in microphone. SayABC does not allow wireless or Bluetooth headsets. USB or earphone jack headsets are recommended. They also strongly recommend headsets and not ear buds. Linux is not allowed. Must be a wired connection. SayABC does not allow teachers to use Wifi for teaching. SayABC uses its own application which teachers will have to download.
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In the video it states that, the company will take you if you do not have a Bachelor's degree, however, this has now changed and you do need a degree. I highly, highly suggest that you go out and get your ESL, English as a second language teaching certificate.
Those are the most common, those two. You can do it through Groupon. But I highly recommend that you get your teaching certificate. Because other people are applying and you want to have something to say that…. Your ESL certificate never expires and it kind of just gives you a rung up on the ladder.
Also, make sure that before you apply, make sure that you have some kind of teaching experience or teaching English to second language learners experience or with kids.
Most of us without even realizing it already have the experience. Don't worry if you're not a teacher or have a formal experience. Don't feel like you have to be a teacher or a mom. I am neither. I am a scientist and I don't have any kids yet, but in college I did tutoring.
I tutored young children to make some money. When I was a microbiologist, I also had interns that shadowed me and I had to teach them, so that counts.
I also participate in some volunteer work teaching on a volunteer basis, and I use that as my experience. Go volunteer or go teach in an after school program or in a community center. You do need to have some kind of teaching experience. With many of these online companies, you apply online.
You go to the company's website, the link is below, and there is where you apply:. Just make sure that it's an email address that you want forever, because this is going to be your forever login. That's what your login will be for when you become a teacher and throughout the interview process, so make sure you choose a good email.
Usually I say resume, but when it says CV it stands for curriculum vitae, which is your resume. It is mandatory. You do have to upload some kind of resume. Again, if I were you, I would tweak your resume to be directly towards an English teaching position. Like I said, I'm a microbiologist by profession, but you better believe that my volunteer work and my tutoring were at the very top and featured in that resume that I submitted just for them.
If you have a teaching English certificate, they want you to upload a copy of that. If you have the paper or the PDF they sent to you when you graduated the course, that's fine. I just uploaded that to the system. Or if you have a physical certificate, just take a picture of it with your cellphone and upload that picture. There will also be a section to fill in your Skype name.
It is mandatory too. Maybe you don't have a Skype, so you go out and create one. They want you to fill in your Skype because when you do get hired, which hopefully you will, they use Skype a lot for communicating with their teachers for now. Then you wait two business days. Don't freak out. I was waiting and checking my email every hour, but I didn't realize they take 48 hours.
I think I applied on a Tuesday and by Thursday I got the email inviting you for an interview. You get an email saying yes, you've passed the application process, we'd love to invite you to interview with us. Now you can choose the option to do it live or a recorded interview. What's the difference? The same techniques, just one will be with a person one on one, and the other will be recorded, but you still need to pretend that you are talking to a person.
Ask the question and respond. A basic introduction, and then you will pass onto the demo. If you are doing the recorded, just do the same tips as I would do live, same techniques. If you want to know what techniques are, I have another video for that, it's below, on tips to pass your interview, some techniques that they're specifically looking for:.
But regardless if you do live or recorded, it's the same principle, so be sure to practice, practice, practice. Beforehand when you apply for your interview, they will send you an email with a PDF, a 32 page PDF, and it has three different PowerPoints in it for a level zero, a level one, and a level two.
You do not do all three. You get to pick which one you want to do. No, it's not that. You choose one of the three and that's the one that you will demo. No matter what, go and review that PDF they send you, practice all three, and then you choose which one you think you do best or which one you feel the most comfortable with and that's the one you go for. Your demo is to be 10 to 15 minutes. Again, when you practice, regardless if you're doing live or recorded, make sure that you're timing yourself to ensure that you have the proper pacing.
They're looking for that. If you interview on a Friday, it's 48 hours business days, so don't expect that you're going to hear, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, I'm going to hear. So, if you interviewed on a Friday, that means you wait Monday, Tuesday. By Wednesday you'll have your result. Again, wait two days. Don't worry, don't stress out. They set you up with a current SayABC teacher or trainer and they're going to walk you through the platform. By the way, on the interview, don't worry too much about manipulating the platform.
That's what this training is for. Your trainer will show you how to skip slides, turn off a students mouse, move the students into the screen, interact with the students, how to press play on the audio, how to give reward cards. All of those things will be covered in this training session. You don't have to really prepare, just show up, but if you have any questions about the platform or the process, that's a good moment to do it, in your training session with your trainer.
They will be very happy to help you. With Say ABC, it's a little different. They throw you to the wolves. Your evaluation class is a live actual class with four or less, but usually four students. You're teaching them a normal class. They don't know that this is your evaluation class, so it's a real live class, which I actually think is a little better than the VIPKID one with a mock class mentor, because it kind of threw me off pretending to teach an adult like a child the whole class.
They just let you hit the road running. But a key tip is unlike a one on one class, you have four, so make sure that you are giving each child individual attention. Make sure you're spending time to give each individual student a chance to answer and participate. Another thing about your evaluation class, you are paid for it. They do pay you for that. After your evaluation class, you have to wait another 48 hours or two days minimum.
After your evaluation class, you can have one of two results. One is that you passed, woohoo, and you can get to go sign your contract, or option two is that if you did well but not good enough, that they think you can do better, they will give you a second chance to do your second evaluation class.
They will let you know what you did wrong if you didn't pass. They'll give you points of your good and your bad and what they want you to improve on, which is nice, so that you know what they're looking for.
They send you their contract. It's a three month contract as your pay rate, the incentives, the trial conversions, all of that is really laid out very well, so take your time to read that. They're going to want you to submit your banking information.
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