Let’s give a big welcome to teacher Christine who will be sharing with us her experiences and top tips for teaching with Preply – an online tutoring marketplace for language teachers! Christine is an online ESL teacher with over 20 years in-person and online teaching experience. This includes four years teaching ESL online with VIPkid, […]
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As online ESL teachers, we love to encourage our students to read as much as possible outside of class! However, it can be challenging to find books for them – particularly if they are unable to afford expensive subscriptions. Don’t worry though, here are five great websites with free eBooks for kids! Set these as
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It’s been another exciting month at Abridge Academy! Not only are there 16 new or revamped lessons for our curriculum members, but we also ran an amazing FREE Global Social Media Marketing Challenge with the incredible Jillian Shanahan – over 300 teachers signed up to accelerate your independent online teaching businesses. If you missed it,
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This month, Abridge Academy curriculum members enjoyed 11 new lessons as well as more resources, games and minor updates across the whole curriculum. Core course L1:3:4 Culture: Fruits around the worldL1:3:5 Story: Fruit saladL1:3:6 Review: fruitPhonics 1: Welcome to the jungle (s, a, t, m)Phonics 2: Let’s go to the zoo (p, i, e, h)
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It’s been a busy month, with lots of exciting updates for our Abridge Academy curriculum members! Not only have we been steadily releasing new lessons, but also adding in more supplementary materials and working on useful blog posts and training materials to help you grow your independent online ESL business! Core curriculum updates This month,
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Abridge Academy was delighted to be featured by national newspaper The Times, discussing how we launched with the support of graduate entrepreneurship funding from the University of Southampton and University of Cambridge. You can read the full article here. Other Press
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Are you struggling to find students willing to pay good rates for classes and refer friends? Maybe you’re just getting your independent online ESL teaching business started and find it difficult to convert leads into actual paying customers? In this video, I’m going to discuss why group classes are NOT just for those teachers with
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Thank you to Xavier and the wider Teach with Koala team for hosting us for this webinar on how to use the Abridge Academy lessons with the Koala Go teaching platform! If you missed the live webinar, please feel free to catch up here: In this webinar, we worked through an example Abridge Academy lesson
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Let’s welcome teacher Alicia from Ecuador, who will share with us some insights into an awesome activity she enjoyed recently with a student! Introduction Hi everyone! I’m Alicia, an online teacher in Ecuador. I am thrilled with the Abridge Academy courseware! I am just starting unit 2 – it’s another great unit with fantastic materials
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We are excited to welcome the incredible Koala team to tell you all about their amazing new online teaching platform! Koala Go is designed specifically for online teaching, including an amazing co-browsing tool which allows your students (including those on iPads!) to interact directly with the Abridge Academy slides. In this webinar, we discussed: How
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