For independent online tutors
You didn’t go independent to spend your evenings on admin
I’m David. I teach English online, and I built The Tutor Resource because the job around the job kept eating my evenings. Hundreds of ready lessons, a placement test, progress tracking, and the business side, all in one place.
The platform
Everything around the lesson, in one place
- Hundreds of ESL lessons from Pre-A1 to B2, in separate tracks for kids, teens and adults
- A placement test that puts a new student at the right level, with a report you can send the parent
- Session logs across eight skill areas, so progress is something you can show rather than claim
- Your students, your schedule and your earnings kept alongside the teaching
Free to use
Six things you can use before you pay anything
Nothing here is a trial that runs out. Five of them don’t even need an account. See everything that’s free.
The Level Finder
A free adaptive CEFR test. No signup to start, about eight minutes, and you finish with a level you can actually teach to.
Take the test →The Classroom Toolkit
Games for the screenshare: an icebreaker wheel, a hidden-star board, Two Truths and a Lie, a taboo challenge, plus a timer, a scoreboard and a feedback generator. Free, no account.
Open the toolkit →The Break Room
A free course on teaching English, published one lesson at a time. Six minutes of reading and one technique you can use in your next class. No sign-up, no email capture, no paywall.
Read lesson one →The 13-Slide Blueprint
The shape we build every lesson on, and the timing behind it. Thirteen slides, same order every time. Free, no account needed.
Get the blueprint →The Tutor Planner
The Google Sheet I ran my own tutoring on: students, classes, money and a scheduler that posts to Google Calendar. Free, and yours to copy.
Get the planner →Coaching
Sixteen video lessons on getting started and on teaching method, free with any account, including the free one.
See the courses →What teachers say
Tutors have been teaching from these lessons for years
Most of these are from tutors using Teachers Together English, the curriculum the lesson library is built from. Same lessons, new home.
The creators are consistently adding new lessons and have worked hard to improve existing lessons. The curriculum is comprehensive in meeting the needs of ESL learners at every level of proficiency. I use TTE lessons for nearly all of my 30+ classes per week, and I find the curriculum to be easy to use and a great value for the price.
Everything is ready to go. Thanks for all you do. I love being able to teach without too much prep!
Each lesson provides my students with new vocabulary, reading, and comprehension opportunities, as well as grammar, phonics, and often math skills. I find with my higher level students it’s easy to extend the lesson material and challenge them in a different way. Thank you for such well-developed, learning appropriate material.
My five year old student loved this through a Zoom classroom format. I love it from a teaching perspective, too!
The Tutor Resource has been a great way to keep teachers up to date on new innovative materials to provide students with engaging lessons! The Tutor Resource has worked to make sure teachers have everything they need to be successful teachers.
The blog
The parts of this job nobody trains you for
Choosing a platform, setting your rates, keeping a student who has gone quiet, and the tools that are worth the money. Written for people teaching on their own.
Start free. Three students, no card.
The free plan comes with dozens of free lessons, the session log, and both free coaching courses. Move up a plan when you have more students than it holds.