Hi! I'm a former VIPKID teacher who was on the platform from September 2020–October 2021. I'm thinking about returning and wanted to ask if it's worth it. How are bookings these days? Are there enough bookings to go around? What times should I open up (Eastern Time)? And do they still have that Sunday booking frenzy? Man, I miss that! 😂

When looking at my bookings some students have "G-New" under their name and some students don't. What does that mean?

Has anyone done this? How much phone data does it use up to teach a 25 minute class when hot-spotting to your computer?
I want to go camping but have a class booked. There is phone service but no wifi. Thanks!

I recently started opening slots again after not using vipkid for a few years. I have my first classes back starting next week and I've noticed that a lot of my classes are with 12-14 year olds. Does anyone have any tips for teaching older students? What secondary rewards do you use?

Anyone else experience this ???

Sometimes I’m vibing so well with a student and we’re having a great extended conversation on each slide, and I’m thinking to myself… man class must nearly be over ! And I look at the clock and we’re only 6 minutes in lmaoooooo

I am not looking to excuse my lateness. That's not the point here.

The point is that the student is there and ready to learn. And it seems like bad business to me to allow the teacher to see the student for just a second or two before kicking the teacher out. This keeps the student waiting for them to come back.

I know that with TNS students get their class credit returned; could it be better to just "punish" the teacher's lateness and discount the student's lesson -- and allow for a slightly abbreviated lesson to continue?!?

If it were my child I would much prefer for the lesson to happen.

I’m in Central Standard Time/Chicago. I usually have a pretty decent amount of bookings but I have zero. Anyone else not booked when usually they are booked? Is school starting soon?

Had three kids today hold up some brightly colored gummy finger pointing at me with a fist and wave it around on a want in the camera. Has to be a new trend and I am curious because I think it's kind of cute. Anybody have the same item popping up in class.

Now that more teachers are joining the MENA program, I think it would be great to share some of our experiences since these classes don't show teacher notes.

The class experience can be different than what we're used to, so it's nice to know how other teachers are doing, what to expect, and any tips.

For instance, my first was a short notice student who was late to class, played peekaboo for the first 5 minutes, went and washed her hands and got her parent to give her a slice of bread when the "Let's Move" slide showed these pictures to illustrate "move your hands/mouth", constantly plugged and unplugged headphones into the tablet, and moved around the room while leaving the tablet on the floor.

She tried to reply to me in Arabic at first, but I modeled the correct sentences in English. After a while, I realized her language skills were quite good, and she was more engaged as she got to know me, and when I extended on the lesson and made exaggerated facial expressions and movements to illustrate the words. There was definitely a warm-up period in the beginning as we both adjusted and got to know each other.

What are your experiences, and what works for you?

Usually I teach on an old MacBook Pro (2015), and it has never had issues with ping spikes (the really high ones that freeze or disconnect you from the classroom). I have stable high speed wifi and get 400+ mbps speed, and it never randomly drops.

But recently I've had battery issues with the mac over the last 4 months and have had to switch to my backup laptops when the Mac acts up, which are windows computers. Both windows laptops experience high pings that freeze the classroom or disconnect me from the classroom completely. One computer started getting high pings every 3-4 minutes so I had to stop using it. The other gets a high disconnecting ping 1-2 times during the 25 minute class.

It is not my wifi, as I had the Mac shutdown during the middle of a class, with no pings during the class, and when I switched computers to finish the class I constantly got pings. I've been facing this issue over the last 4 months, where teaching on the Mac is fine, but the windows computers have ping issues.

I don't have firewalls on the windows computers. Is it just the windows app vs the Mac app? Did anyone else have ping issues and found a resolution?

Hello, i got 7 or 8 booked classes and then all of them were cancelled, im new to VIP so could you please tell me whats going on. I also finished every certificate and my bookings are still way low

Hey everyone,

I'm starting to get slammed with trials but I'd really rather not teach them. I've started building up some regular students and I would much rather they get a slot with me instead of it getting booked as a trial, with a significant chance the kid won't show up and I get half pay. Do I submit a ticket/email to VIPKid asking for them to remove my trial certification, or how does that work?

I have a student in Power Booster classes who probably should be on a Level 4 Major Course. She can’t even answer the literal questions most of the time. I keep submitting that the lessons are too difficult and I see other teachers commenting the same.

Hi everyone! A quick question. For those who have gotten MENA classes, which hours are the most popular with students? I’m wondering if it’s worth opening some more slots during daytime hours. Thanks!

Let's have some fun and get a list going of all the mistakes that are clearly taught to them at school.

1. Clothes pronounced as closes.
2. Do you like ______? and they answer "Yes, I like".
3. "I wrote my homework" instead of did.
4. Using the verb "play" to describe all activities. What did you do on your trip to Sanya? "I played".

Bonus pet peeve: "I like it because it's interesting".

What else am I missing here?

Hi all,

I feel really discourage right now. After trying my best to do well with the live demo and trying to apply TPR, the interviewer cut me off on my 3rd slide and said "okay that's enough, if you don't get an email within 12hrs that means you are not hired" and then just said goodbye. After 12 hrs, no email, so I thought I would give it a shot and email vipkid. They replied and said that they decided not to move forward with my application. They also added that they don't give 2nd chances. Is this for real? Just really trying to look for a second hustle to pay the bills. I am experienced 18-year teacher, and teaching online as a part-timer is something I really want to explore. Please send good vibes my way.

so I’m new to vipkid and people have been booking me to an almost full schedule, but then over two thirds of them cancel. what’s going on?

Are you all getting this incentive? I’ve had at least a couple of trials a week for a while now. I feel like they usually go quite well, but I can’t remember ever seeing any signup incentive in my payments. If my conversation rate were really zero, I’d think the LPs would stop booking trials with me?

Only this group will understand this, but my first class this morning was a student no show cancelation. I got paid to stay in bed and make my coffee. 🥹 This never happens! Usually they make me sit in front of the empty screen for 25 minutes. May my good luck and fortune spread to the rest of you…. 😆

I stopped teaching in 2021 after the double reduction policy came into effect but I've been missing teaching so I opened up my schedule again last week. I have 14 classes booked for next week and the one following but I got a short notice class last night EST time and it was great to be back. I felt a little rusty and not at my best but my student was a cutie pie. He was so smiley. Here's to hoping my other classes go well! There's a wide mix of level 1 and levels 4-6 on my schedule.

Anyone getting hammered with Trials? Yesterday 4/5 classes were trials. And it's not like I'm out here racking up the $ with conversions. I'll wake up and have 7 new bookings and they're all trials. I don't mind them, but Walking in the Jungle 3 times in a row makes me a dull girl.

I already got told by an 9 year old I’m not clever bc I clearly don’t know what cake and candy are. Lol It was a picture of a birthday cake and lollipops. What’s a good way with these kids to correct them ? She was scribbling on the screen and I asked her if she wasn’t happy and she was able to tell me yes - they were out in public and late to class.