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5 Q: What are the steps to become a 5StarTeacher?
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Steps to become an approved 5StarTeacher:

1. Sign up "as a Teacher" and choose either Teacher, Coach, Consultant or Expert. (a LinkedIn profile is required)
2. Verify your account. (via email)
3. Take our Pre-Teacher Training Quiz (easy) and agree to the terms and conditions.
4. Update your profile, (our system will guide you). 
5. Create your first Single-session Course.
6. Create 50 Sessions available for booking (your availability).
7. Create a short Personal Introduction Video. 
8. Create a short Course Introduction Video.

When you are happy with your content, set each of these items to "Ready to go!" and your profile will go in our moderation queue.

9. Allow 48 hours for our team to check and moderate your profile and content. If certain changes are required, we will communicate this with you.
10. If all is good, our CEO will book one of your Available Sessions to have a short interview with you.
11. And if that is all good: CONGRATULATIONS! You have just become an approved 5StarTeacher.

Now start earning money from wherever you are in the world by sharing massive amounts of value via teaching, coaching, or advising 1-to-1 online, via screen sharing and video calls. Yay!

Good to know: Check your profile page to see a comprehensible profile status card. (this is private info)


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4 Q: Can I grade the English level of my Student?
A: If you are a native English speaker, you can update your Student's English level to the level you think they currently have. Doing so, is recorded on the Student's Profile revision log for the team to check in case a mistake was made. When the Student has a higher English level than they had previously set on their own profile, the Student will be quite happy because it opens more doors for them. The opposite, however, is a bit tricky. If you decide to downgrade their English level, please discuss this with the Student first. If the Student has a certificate which shows an English level congruent with their settings on their profile, please do not do this. If they can't prove it and you feel that having this incorrect English level on their profile is disadvantageous for the Student themselves and for other Teachers as well, then go ahead and change it.
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3 Q: Can anyone book my Course?
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Oure Teachers are the heart of our platform and we want them to be in control as much as possible of who can book their Courses. 

Therefore our Teachers can set their own audience requirements on their Courses as follows:
1. a required minimum English level,
2. a required Student level, and
3. a required gender

Any Student who does not meet any of these requirements, cannot book your Course.

Why is this so?
To avoid disappointment and to keep it fair. 

Minimum English level
By default the minimum English level set on every Course is "Beginner" but you, the Teacher, can change it as you like. If the Student can't speak your native language and can't speak English at a level that you require for this Course, that would be a serious problem if we allowed that. We want to avoid this at all costs.

Student level
By default the Student level is set to "adult". If you want to teach under 18s (kids), you must upload a valid Certificate of Good Conduct (CGC) on your Teacher profile and have it approved by our team. Your CGC is kept private but the Student will see a check mark so they understand that we have approved your CGC. Your CGC must be issued within the last 6 months as of the current date.

Say you wanted to specifically teach Students of a particular Student Level e.g. Primary 6 because you want to teach them English in preparation for their English Secondary School Interview, that should be possible. When you set it to be this level, only Students who have set that level on their profile will be able to book your Course.

Gender
By default the gender for your Course is set to "any" but let's say that you only wanted to teach "female" Students, you'd then set it to "female any". Then Students who are males, cannot access or book your Course. And if you only wanted to teach people from the LGB community, you'd set it to LGB.
Explore all options on our platform.

We strongly believe that no one should be forced to teach people of a particular gender, accept any English level or Student level. And conversely, no one should be forced to learn from a Teacher if they do not agree with them based on gender, language, degrees, expertise, ideologies, skills or abilities. We built this platform for it to be ethical and fair. And that's how it should be if we want you to have the happiest and best possible experience in learning, improving and growing.

 


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2 Q: Why do you need to know my gender?
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Case Student:
Imagine you are the mother of an 8-year-old girl and you want your daughter to learn English but ONLY from a "female" native English teacher. That should be possible and so in order to make that possible, we have to ask you, the Teacher, for your biological gender.

Case Teacher:
Imagine you are a female Teacher and you only wanted to teach "women". That should be possible too and so in order to make that possible, you can set a required gender on your Courses so that only people with that gender can see and buy your Course. This way, you can't be disappointed. We believe that is but fair and provides REAL value for both the Student and the Teacher.

Note: We do not explicitly show anyone's gender on the platform, it's only used through search filters.


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All Students, Teachers
1 Q: What are the requirements to become a Teacher on 5StarTeachers?
A:
  1. show us that you are a teacher at heart
  2. show us that you truly care
  3. show us that you are passionate about the things you want to teach, coach or advise on
  4. show us that you have substantial experience in the field of what you want to teach, coach or advise on
  5. be at least 18 years old
  6. have at least a lower-intermediate English level
  7. have a Linkedin profile (private info)
  8. your bank details to receive payments (private info)
  9. your phone number (private info)
  10. add a quality profile picture
  11. add a quality Personal Introduction Video (PIV)
  12. add a quality Course Introduction Video (CIV)


Note: To teach under 18s (kids), you must have a Certificate of Good Conduct (CGC) issued by your local Police within the last 6 months. (private info)


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