
Learn how Preply connects students with tutors for customized learning across languages, academics, professional skills and hobbies, supported by enhanced profiles, flexible scheduling, mobile app development, and adaptive learning paths.
Learn how to become a tutor on Preply, covering sign-up, profile setup, an introductory video, profile photo guidelines, and a five business day application review to attract students.
Edit your Preply profile across six sections: about you, photo, description, video, subjects, and background, to optimize for student appeal, faster approvals, and teaching methods.
Align your teaching style with learner preferences, establish a collaborative learning plan, set specific, measurable objectives, and master Preply classroom tools for missed lessons and follow-ups.
Differentiate yourself on Preply by engaging potential students, responding quickly and personally, promoting your profile, and aligning your teaching philosophy with ongoing professional development.
Navigate the double-edged role of stakeholders on Preply, balancing parents, guardians, and sometimes friends, while managing platform policies, attendance, time zones, and competitive visibility.
Explore how Preply offers a global learner base, one-on-one tutoring, and AI-powered tools, with 24/7 support, secure payments, and professional development to boost earning potential.
Analyze the limitations of Preply as a language platform, including high commission fees, platform glitches, student cancellations, trial-lesson revenue, limited professional development, competition, and lack of job security for tutors.
Access a rich set of free online language teaching resources and courses. Discover the prep blog, FAQs, help center, tutor development hub, and social channels that enhance online teaching.
Explore trends in online teaching for the 2020s, including AI-powered personalization, VR integration, microlearning and mobile learning, data-driven instruction, and hybrid models for online language teachers.
Hello teachers!
Welcome to ELT 2040: Teaching on Preply in the 2020s!
This is a FREE crash course on becoming and developing as a language teacher on the platform Preply. This course has been created for and by independent, freelance, passionate language teachers. We are in no way affiliated with Preply. This is an unsponsored, no BS, cut-to-the-chase introduction to online language teaching through Preply. The creation of the course content has been informed by the real teaching experiences of hundreds of teachers and by dozens of official Preply resources on Preply's website and beyond.
This course is meant for both new Preply teachers, experience Preply teachers and people who are considering a future in teaching on Preply. 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!