Reliable but small pay - Online English Teacher Best Teacher Employee Review

Easy job with little preparation

Low salary and little room for self development

Not many online schools have a separate writing room in their teaching platform to earn extra income. The writing room is essentially teaching English, but only in writing instead of using this platform in an audiovisual class or in a live teaching session like teaching via Skype. In most cases the writing room is basically having a conversation with the student in English based on a topic that the student selected. The writing involves several exchanges in the form of replies that takes place between the teacher and student until the conversation comes to a satisfactory end. Another teacher may continue replying to the student if the initial teacher did not respond in a timely manner or abandons the conversation.

The pay rate for the writing room is (or was) very cheap. (I don't know what the pay rate is today for the writing room). In 2014/2015, you could spend an entire hour in a writing room and you did not earn a minimum hourly rate. I don't recall the exact rate but I think it was something like "10 yen per pair of replies" or even less. For the live Skype lessons students were not assigned to teachers, so a new teacher was more at a disadvantage than a regular teacher on the platform therefore creating a marketplace based on competition rather than competence.