Teaching the teacher
The training you stopped getting when you went independent.
When you work for a company there’s always someone to ask. On your own there isn’t. Coaching is where I teach the things I had to work out the hard way, in short lessons you can watch between students.
Two of the three courses are free with any account, including the free one.
Taught by someone who’s still teaching.
What’s in there now
Three courses, two of them free
Every lesson is a short video. Most of them also have written notes you can read instead of watching, because sometimes you have four minutes between students and no headphones.
Getting Started
Your first week on the platform, one short step at a time. Set up your account, add your first student, find a lesson and teach it, log the session, set your schedule, and use the placement test to win a client.
Top 10 Effective Strategies
The methodology course. Total Physical Response, the I do, we do, you do model, getting more words out of a quiet student, pitching your language at the level in front of you, phonics, reward systems, saving a lesson that ran short, assessment, pacing, and the tech side of teaching online.
Engage & Inspire: Online English Teaching
Teaching young learners, ages four to fourteen. How children at different ages actually take in a language, what that means for the way you plan, classroom management through a screen, and a part each on listening, speaking, writing, and reading.
Built to be watched in the gaps
- Short lessons. Watch one between students, not on a Saturday you don’t have.
- Video and writing together. Most lessons have both, so you can read it on a train or watch it with a coffee.
- The app remembers where you stopped. Mark a lesson complete and the next one is waiting when you come back.
- Nothing is drip fed. Everything published is there the day you sign up.
Free and paid
What you get without paying anything
Coaching lives inside the app, so you do need an account. The free one costs nothing, takes an email, and caps you at three students.
With any account, free included
- Getting Started, all six lessons
- Top 10 Effective Strategies, all ten lessons and fifty-eight sections
- Your progress saved as you go
With Ultimate
- Engage and Inspire, the young learners course
- Everything else on that plan, including unlimited students
- New courses as they’re added
What’s coming
More of this is on the way
I’m recording more. The plan is to keep adding courses on the parts of this job nobody trains you for, and to pay attention to which ones people actually finish before I decide what to build next.
Some of this started life as a podcast, and those episodes are still up if you would rather listen: the podcast archive. If there’s something you want covered, send it to me and it goes on the list.
Start with the free courses.
An account costs nothing and takes an email. Sixteen lessons are waiting on the other side of it.