Hello TSN!
I'm Charlotte and I'm a language trainer (English and French) living in Central California, USA. I joined this community because I've realized seeking out mentorship and a community is much better than trying to launch myself as an independent consultant all on my own!
I've taught French for two years in a university as a graduate student, English for one year in three French K-5 public schools, and I'm finishing up my first year as an independent contractor developing and running an online EFL-teacher training program for a group in France.
I feel like I have a good handle on the academic parts of teaching English (but always with room to grow!) - I've got "the academic qualifications," classroom and virtual teaching experience, a website/blog and linked in page I try to post on 1x/week, a few current clients, but I'm not sure how to keep the momentum going with the work I've already done over the last year to scale a long-term business I love. Any and all advice in this area would be greatly appreciated!
My business goals for the next 30 days (June 4-July 4) are to onboard three new clients for summer English or French training, revamp my website to incorporate some new branding I've had made, put together a program summary of what I've done over the past 8 months with my current client, and commit 12 hours minimum to building a course that I can offer on my website.
I'm not sure what all this community offers, but I'm excited to have found a community to learn from and contribute to on this journey!
Best and bon courage ("be of good courage"/cheers) :)
Charlotte
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• Nov '24
Hi Charlotte, it's nice to meet you! How have things been going with your business over the past few months? It's great meeting another US-based teacher entrepreneur, it can sometimes be tricky to find each other since this whole concept of independent teaching seems to be somewhat uncommon here in comparison with what I can observe in many EFL contexts. It's definitely a growing trend, though, it just takes a bit of work to connect with colleagues doing similar things!
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• Sep '24
I agree with you completely. Having a support group and mentors like this is amazing.
It’s great to learn from other likeminded and experienced people and share ideas.
It’s the first time I’m in a network like this and I love it.
I also have experience in and really enjoy teacher training, I also add marketing skills into my services to help them market themselves better.
What types of trainings do you do?
How have you got your teachers who want to be trained if you don’t mind me asking?
I’m in a similar situation to you. I have a small website, I’m on social media posting about a few times a week, have 4 students so far and my evening job. Along with a podcast I’m working on.
For my it’s prioritising what’s most important for my long term and short term goals.
But it seems like you are doing lots of really good work.
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