
Discover how italki functions as a global language learning community, connecting students with professional and community tutors for one-on-one lessons, cultural exchange, and language fluency.
Choose one profile type—professional teacher or community tutor—and build a profile with training documents, language skills, and a native or C2 video to attract students.
Learn to build a professional italki profile with about me, lessons, styles, and a learning plan template. Explore first lesson prep, trial lessons, commissions, and lesson packages for student engagement.
Prepare for your first italki class by establishing rapport, goals, and expectations during a trial lesson, using italki classroom tools and presentation practice production or flipped classroom structures.
Develop a compelling teacher philosophy and niche expertise to attract more students, personalize lessons, and foster long-term teacher-student relationships through engaging methods and continuous professional development.
Identify stakeholders, student engagement, and scheduling as common challenges in italki teaching. Develop strategies to stay current with digital trends, educational technology, and AI in education, building lasting student relationships.
Italki enables teachers to attract students through podcasts, exercises, and Q&A in the community. Explore group lessons, webinars, affiliations, proficiency testing, and global teacher-student connections.
Explore the income instability and isolation of teaching on italki as a self-employed platform, and discuss potential improvements such as professional development, transparent policies, and better support.
Discover a curated collection of useful resources for Italki teachers and tutors, including the support center, handbook, forums, blogs, policies, payment FAQs, and more in the resources section.
Explore 2020s trends for Italki teachers, including ai-powered personalization, vr/ar, gamification, microlearning, mobile learning apps, data-driven instruction, and cultural competency.
Hello teachers!
Welcome to ELT 2030: Teaching on iTalki in the 2020s!
This is a FREE crash course on becoming and developing as a language teacher on the platform iTalki. This course has been created for and by independent, freelance, passionate language teachers. We are in no way affiliated with iTalki. This is an unsponsored, no BS, cut-to-the-chase introduction to online language teaching through iTalki. The creation of the course content has been informed by the real teaching experiences of hundreds of teachers and by dozens of official iTalki resources on iTalki's website and beyond.
This course is meant for both new iTalki teachers, experience iTalki teachers and people who are considering a future in teaching on iTalki. The program is organized into ten sections, each with a lecture and an accompanying comprehension task. There are also complementary resources linked to the modules which will help you with applying to the platform, setting up your profile, planning your classes, assessing your students and finding a sense of belonging in our teaching community. By joining this course, you will also gain access to Teach Ahead's language teacher community.
We at Teach Ahead hope that this helps you to launch or continue your online language teaching career. Happy learning and happy teaching!