Online ESL Teacher for Landi
Summary(Review): Note: Landi is no longer hiring
Landi salary is pretty good between $10 – $18 per hour where you will be teaching 1-2 students at a time. Minimal lesson planning as the majority of the material is already available. You need to maintain 12 hours per week. They use an immersive teaching system based on CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) that is used for all of their students from kindergarten to high school level. One of the most trustworthy and transparent HRs we work with.Job Overview for Online ESL Teacher
Pay Rate per Hour:
Minimum: $10
Maximum: $18
Class Size:
2
Student Ages:
Elementary & Junior (age 5-15)
Class Schedule:
Evening (6pm-9pm)
Job Details for Online ESL Teacher
Accent(s):
Native North American
Native UK
Native South Africa
Degree Required:
Bachelor or above
Certification:
No/Preferred
Years Experience:
0
Min Hours Week:
12
Internet Speed(Mbps):
Min Uploading: 2 MB/s
Min Downloading: 2 MB/s
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Online ESL Teacher Job Description
- Hourly Rate: $10 – 18 per hour
- Student Age Group: age 4-10
- Class Size: One-on-one or up to 2 students per class
- Class Length: 25 min
- The number of Class Session per week:
- Class Schedule:
- 12 hours & 4 days per week commitment from 6 pm-9 pm Beijing time (GMT+8)
Teacher Types
There’re two types of teachers in Landi.
1. Experienced Teachers (EXP)
There’s a good likelihood you’ll be representing the trial and demo class to the new potential students if you’re selected to be EXP teacher. As a result, Landi is particularly selective when recruiting the teachers, including criteria who have previous teaching experience, demonstrate great teaching traits, and affinity to engage new potential students to be Landi’s new customers. Requirements
- hold a recognized degree (at least a Bachelor’s degree)
Time commitments for an Experienced Teacher:
- Minimum 12 teaching hours over any day of the week (Mon – Sun)
- During peak hours 6 pm – 9 pm BJT
2. Regular Teachers (REG)
Requirements
- hold a recognized degree (at least a Bachelor’s degree)
Time commitments for a Regular Teacher:
- Minimum 12 teaching hours per week
- 12 hours during peak times (6 pm – 9 pm BJT)
Job Responsibilities
- Creative and energetic
- Excellent communications skills
- Present lessons in a fun and exciting way
- Able to instruct subject K12 English according to a model curriculum, using core standards.
- Participate in organized training sessions and seminars.
Product Concept
Peer Study has been thoroughly implemented throughout all Landi classes. Landi also integrated the essential element of Peer Study as a student-centered teaching philosophy, which has various facets that enhance a student’s learning experience; facets such as peer cooperation and peer competition. Peer Study establishes a safe and friendly psychological environment, where learners can learn from each other, have their sense of cooperation and competition enhanced, resulting in improved social development.
Product Features
What makes Landi English 2.0 course stand out is its Peer Study teaching philosophy, combined with “situationalization,” “interaction,” and “game mechanics”, which largely motivate students to learn so as to improve their class performance.
With well-designed teaching materials, guides and platforms, Landi teachers can guide students to spontaneously perform good competition and cooperation, and improve their classroom performance and learning effectiveness in a story scene. In this case, the studying points have been consolidated by students in a fun and joyful way while teaching effects can be ensured at the same time. In addition, the design of gamification also improves the interactions between teachers and students, and give teachers more space/freedom to better display their well-prepared TPRs and their own teaching skills.
Landi Training
If you’re thinking about becoming a teacher for Landi, you’ve come to the right place. Whether you’re a newbie or a master of online teaching, we all offer tailored training and development programs. We’ll help you with everything from using the teaching platform to know your students, from child development to ESL teaching methodology. It is our goal to make teaching with Landi as fun as possible.
Online ESL Teacher Job Requirements
- Minimal weekly commitment: Min 12 teaching hours and 4 days per week commitment from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm (Beijing time)
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Sat, Sun (6 – 9 pm Beijing time)
- Monday to Friday (6 – 9 pm Beijing time)
- Must have a Bachelor’s degree or above (Education, linguistics or English degree preferred)
- Native English teachers from the US, Canada, UK and South Africa preferred.
- There’re two types of the teacher at Landi, Experience and Regular one, please see the detailed qualification as follow.
- Must have a Teaching certificate, e.g. TEFL/TESOL/CELTA/PGCE, local (state) teaching certificate, etc.
- Speaks English at an idiomatic level
Preferred Qualifications
- Teaching experience preferred
Online ESL Teacher Salary and Compensation
- Hourly Rate: $10 – 18 per hour
How to Apply to Online ESL Teacher?
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Online ESL Teacher Interview Process & Tips
Landi Interview Process
- Candidates are expected to respond to Landi’s requests within 10 days; Any candidate with no contact after one month will be less likely to be accepted.
- Submit resume
- CV screening
- Interview+ Demo lesson
- Signed Contract
- Online Training
- Orientation+ Profile complete
- Start teaching
Demo & Interview Tips
The Mock interview
A 10-minute (approximately) demonstration lesson with our Recruitment Team personnel acting as the candidate’s 6-year-old low-level English learner, using Landi English’s materials.
Aspects Assessed during the Mock interview:
Each aspect will be scored in a binary YES or NO format
- Energetic – Maintain energy and enthusiasm for teaching and the materials throughout the mock.
- Body Language & Facial Expressions – Be animated and overly expressive to the student, keep their attention and peak their interest in learning and experiencing a new language.
- Patient – Remember the ‘student’ is low level and needs encouragement to engage in the lesson.
- Talking Speed – Slow and steady will help the student understand and engage more.
- Instructions – ‘Easy & Simple’ is the key. Use basic words with actions.
- Appetency – Demonstrate a desire to be part of the teaching profession.
- Teaching Environment (NOTE * This is a requirement in the training phase) – Prepare in advance a bright, interesting and child-friendly teaching background (basically, everything in the camera’s view).
- Intonation – Use correct and clear intonation bearing in mind the student’s age and level
- Props, Realia & Teaching Aids (NOTE * This is a requirement in the training phase) – Use of additional items to enhance the learning experience, (flashcards, puppets, related objects, etc.)
- Extrude the Teaching Points – Identify, deliver, and check through student interaction the target teaching points from the sample materials have been covered.
- Error Correction – Provide timely and appropriate error correction in an encouraging and positive way.
The entire interview process will be finished within a week or two the most. If your qualification meets the school’s needs, then the interview invitation will be sent. Both interview and contract work will happen within an hour, and followed by training and mock sessions which consist of 4 hours on a different date, then orientation to make sure you’re ready to go out to the world and teach!
Demo Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m18xN1oMoT0&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEonFs9Ektw
Videos from Landi channel on Youtube
Interview Tips
- 6 Important Questions to Ask during an Online English Teaching Job InterviewHow to Expedite the Interview Process and Get a Job Sooner?
Company Information for Landi
Landi English has specialized in customized real-time online English courses with quality learning content for Chinese students aged from 5 to 10. Landi also has incorporated the essential element of Peer Study as a student-centered teaching philosophy, combined with the PI (Peer Instruction) teaching method. By utilizing a subject knowledge setting (Science, Math and Language Art), the Landi system uses English language as a learning conduit, emphasizing on the knowledge acquisition process and students’ learning experience. The system improves students’ English ability, as well as enabling them to apply acquired subject knowledge so they can solve practical problems on their own. By integrating “situationalization”, “interaction” and “gamification”, Landi English has created a brand-new small class teaching model, which has enhanced students’ English language ability and subject knowledge.
- In April 2017, abc360 announced its investment partners Hujiang, ero2IPO Group, Datou Capital, Whales Capital, and Ximalaya with investment in the B+ rotation of several hundred million yuan, and released a new brand, Landi English;
- In May 2017, Landi English achieved its business growth, with monthly revenue exceeding 20 million yuan; Landi teachers exceeded 500 people;
- In July 2017, Landi English won the Online Education Brand Service Innovation Award at the 2nd Online Education Trend Forum;
- In September 2017, Landi English won the five-star Gold Medal Foreign Language Education Organization Award at the 2017 Sina Five-Star Gold Medal Award Ceremony; Landi teachers exceeded 1,000;
- In September 2017, Landi English once again achieved a breakthrough in performance, with monthly revenue exceeding 40 million yuan;
- On November 6, 2017, Landi English released a newly upgraded 2.0 product; Landi teachers exceeded 2,000.
- January 2, 2018, Landi English appeared on the NASDAQ giant advertising screen in New York’s Times Square, showing the world the strength of online education in China;
- In July 2018, Landi English announced its C-round financing of RMB 520 million, which set a new record for financing in the field of online foreign teachers;
- At present, the number of registered users of Landi English has exceeded 1 million. The number of new paid users has exceeded 10,000 in a single month, and the monthly revenue is nearly 100 million. The number of teachers is about 6000, ranking the first in the field of small-class online teaching.
Online ESL Teacher Reviews
Class Structure
The content materials mainly focus on children’s English education, age 5~12. Where student size range from one-on-one to two. Two types of classes, regular and trial classes. Minimal 12 hours commitment in 3 days per week.
Landi also has some teaching materials update, Landi English 2.0 course, where it emphasizes on Peer Study teaching philosophy, combined with “situationalization,” “interaction,” and “game mechanics”, which largely motivate students to learn so as to improve their class performance.
Great Culture
Many great reviews about the support and HR team, great support, open-minded, positive, character-building within the company and very sufficient by meeting protocols and standards. Training within the company is incredibly good and fixed by the schedule.
They’ll help you with everything from using the teaching platform to know your students, from child development to ESL teaching methodology.
HR at Landi also greatly respect your valuable time, they have quick Interview process as only one interview and the demo is conducted instead of multiple ones.
Teacher Reviews
So I spent about 6 months working for Landi Subject English back in 2017 and here is my review about the experience: Overall, Landi is a decent school and they do pay on time and pretty well. It’s a good company to get your feet wet with online ESL and witness all the mayhem that is possible within the industry firsthand.
With Landi, you are teaching two students at a time vs the standard one like at most companies. Their lesson material is just dreadful for both you and the students. Some of the lessons are literally like pulling teeth and are incredibly repetitious and build upon that mindless repetition for multiple lessons at a time. The teachers have complained to the administration about the material multiple times and nothing has been done to change things.
The managers at the company are often unhelpful and even condescending to teachers when help is needed and requested. The DingTalk chat that teachers are required to participate in is flooded daily with complaints from teachers about materials and technical problems being experienced by both them and the students. The admin spends a good portion of their days making excuses and deflecting while referring teachers to tech support. There is a tech help button within the platform, but pressing it and reporting problems seems to do nothing.
Another unfortunate aspect of this DingTalk chat is that the admin staff unnecessarily harangue the teachers on an almost daily basis, usually with information or company announcements that aren’t relevant to your job whatsoever. There are also cheerleader teachers within the chat app that feel the company can do no wrong and anyone who thinks otherwise is obviously a fool. These folks add to a climate of blame the company seems to express towards their teachers in the endless penalties they seek to impose on them.
Finally, – compensation. The company arbitrarily changed its payment structure multiple times after making me sign several “contracts” with them during my 6 months of employment. The last change effectively reduced teachers’ salaries by 2 dollars per hour. They then held out this 2 dollars over teachers’ heads as a performance bonus. From what I gather, it is somewhat difficult for teachers to receive the bonus without performing almost perfectly over the course of the month. I dunno, I didn’t stick around and see.
Overall, I’d say best to just avoid this company for now. They have some potential, but there need to be major shakeups in admin, compensation, curriculum, the way they communicate with their employees, and just the overall culture of the company. Two thumbs down.
Landi Review – So I spent about 6 months working for Landi Subject English back in 2017 and here is my review about the experience: Overall, Landi is a decent school and they do pay on time and pretty well. It’s a good company to get your feet wet with online ESL and witness all the mayhem that is possible within the industry firsthand.
With Landi, you are teaching two students at a time vs the standard one like at most companies. Their lesson material is just dreadful for both you and the students. Some of the lessons are literally like pulling teeth and are incredibly repetitious and build upon that mindless repetition for multiple lessons at a time. The teachers have complained to the administration about the material multiple times and nothing has been done to change things.
The managers at the company are often unhelpful and even condescending to teachers when help is needed and requested. The DingTalk chat that teachers are required to participate in is flooded daily with complaints from teachers about materials and technical problems being experienced by both them and the students. The admin spend a good portion of their days making excuses and deflecting while referring teachers to tech support. There is a tech help button within the platform, but pressing it and reporting problems seems to do nothing.
Another unfortunate aspect of this DingTalk chat is that the admin staff unnecessarily harangue the teachers on an almost daily basis, usually with information or company announcements that aren’t relevant to your job whatsoever. There are also cheerleader teachers within the chat app that feel the company can do no wrong and anyone who thinks otherwise is obviously a fool. These folks add to a climate of blame the company seems to express towards their teachers in the endless penalties they seek to impose on them.
Finally, – compensation. The company arbitrarily changed their payment structure multiple times after making me sign several “contracts” with them during my 6 months of employment. The last change effectively reduced teachers’ salaries by 2 dollars per hour. They then held out this 2 dollars over teachers’ heads as a performance bonus. From what I gather, it is somewhat difficult for teachers to receive the bonus without performing almost perfectly over the course of the month. I dunno, I didn’t stick around and see.
I’ve been working for Landi for about 3 months now. They are an awesome company overall and I love working with them. I will definitely renew my contract. Below are a list of pros and cons:
Pros:
+ The pay is great. They pay in USD so pay is not affected by the bad RMB-USD exchange rate (I’ve lsot over a dolalr an hour with my other company that pays in RMB).
+ They pay on time and pay exactly what I expect.
+ They book all of my classes for me and I am booked 95-100% of the time.
+ Classes are 25 minutes and I get a 5-minute break between classes.
+ They have great support staff for teachers.
+ They offer 4-hour shifts which is more than most companies.
+ They make all of the lesson plans.
+ The platform is very easy to learn and use.
+ They pay a bonus if your good comment rating for the month is 98% or more. It’s a pretty generous bonus. If it’s 100%, you get $1.2 per good comment.
Cons:
– The course content can get mindnumbing, especially if you teach the same exact class 6x in a row (though a pro of this is there is minimal class prep)
– I constantly see people complaining about the leave system. I think you can only apply for leave one week in advance, not earlier. This obviously causes problems for people who need more than 1 week of leave.
– While Landi pays very well, you can lose $2 per every class you taught in an entire week if you are late to one class or end a class early. This hasn’t happened to me yet, but it’s kind of scary.
For those interested, Landi is legit and a great company to work for. I’ve been with them for 3 months now and they always pay exactly what I expect and pay on time. A really nice thing is they pay in USD so I am not affected by the crappy RMB-USD exchange rate. Also, their courseware is nice because it is designed for teaching online as opposed to some other companies that scan books meant for B&M schools. The 5 minute breaks between classes are also really nice to have. Finally, they assign staff to teachers and their jobs are to help you out. Mine is super nice and hard working and it’s really nice to have someone I can connect with directly.
I will start off with, I have been working at Landi for a bit over a year, started in early 2018, and I thought because this was a newer company that they would be advancing beyond other companies in their policies and management.
EMPLOYEES
At first, it seemed to be a fairly good company, you have all of your standard teachers (a heavy majority being middle aged, stay at home moms that spend a lot of time being confused about the technical portion of their jobs and posting the same complaints over and over), but you also have what are called “operators”, allegedly these are your contacts within the company for any problems relating to HR, they serve as a mediator for a student contact (another employee for student issues), or tech issues on the spot if you cannot get the help desk (Although I have never seen them actually manage to do anything for this, you generally just get a “noted” message). In the course of a year, I have been through 6 operators total, some of them quit, one got fired, and the others get “promoted” I’m assuming. Of the operators I have had, one was awesome, she actually tried to do her job (she quit), one is alright, she just regurgitates information but by now I’ve learned to manage my expectations and just handle as much on my own as I can. And the others have been awful. They would rather belittle people and make them feel stupid for their questions or ignore their issues altogether. There was one that made a list of teachers with these petty little comments (on a teacher accessible spreadsheet, I should add) about her opinions/observations of teachers, some of the more notable comments were specifically marking “BLACK TEACHER” alongside remarks of “teacher mentions she has other jobs, HR will review employment” etc. etc.
It should also be noted that you’re required to have Dingtalk and currently they are using it to spam messages for reminders about class start times, bookings, clock in times, company announcements, and reminders about policies, EVERY DAY. They also send half of these messages to your cell phone number, so if you are not interested, change your number immediately to a fake one or sign up for a google phone number. Just for an idea about how bad that is, I check my google phone once a month and I currently have 343 unread messages from different randomly generated phone numbers.
LEAVE POLICY
This is a policy that seems to get changed frequently. When I started they insisted that any leave needed to be applied for a week before, that’s not a problem, but they mean exactly a week, not before, not after. This is really backwards if you need to take off more than one week. Then with that policy in mind, they allow students to book you two weeks ahead of time, and this trick allows them to play on your heartstrings for small children as they will notify you when you’re applying for your leave that YOU are IMPACTING and CANCELLING lessons for X amount of students.
Currently, the leave policy is limited to 14 days without penalties in a 6 month period, which is not unreasonable, but it should be considered that they also require 22 hours a week, so most people will work 6 days a week anyways, some every day. 14 days is quite a limit to set on people working every day of the week and it’s not guaranteed that this is their only job as well.
Currently, they have also held a bonus over people’s heads for an “attendance bonus” which means you can take 0 approved days off for the bonus. Yes, that means even if you take a Saturday off once in the whole month, you lose your attendance bonus. It can also be lost if you do not log in to your first class five minutes before start time and two minutes before every following class, which there are five minute intervals between and if you have ever taught children, you know that sometimes they take an extra minute. So pretty much, be a heartless, inhuman, working machine and skip out on your kids to write your memos and log in to the next class immediately (not a good selling point if you ask me…)
LESSON MATERIALS
The lesson materials are sub par, I find myself constantly extending on the lesson materials (I’m not paid extra for this, I do this because I care about education). They are very repetitive and they are not corrected for mistakes. There was a moment where they wanted material feedback, and thinking they were serious I provided feedback along with many other teachers and nothing was ever done to correct the issues in the lesson material itself. This kind of thing is very confusing for kids learning the material so it is very irresponsible of Landi to ignore these things.
They place kids in different sections based on their language acquisition level upon signing up, but some kids are far more advanced than they are placing them and others are far below the standard, so evidently this is not working well for them either. The biggest issue in regards to placing the kids in lessons is that they disregard the memos and suggestions from the actual teachers if kids don’t learn anything from the lessons or they don’t display any understanding of the material, so they just keep pushing them into the next class over and over which creates chaos for not only the very CONFUSED child, but also creates chaos with their peers who are actually learning and want to learn more from the lesson but are being held back because no one bothered to hold back the confused kids so that they could catch back up with their peers.
MONETARY
So the pay is basic, no big deal 7.50$ USD per class (every 25 minutes worked) and they advertise that they pay a lot but this is only if you meet the full attendance bonus standards, and if you also have 0 negative comments. Only four to five star rating to get those bonuses. They do not consider that children are the ones leaving the comments and if say a child who is 4 years old clicks on a one star as a review and submits that, the teacher loses the potential bonus. In turn, if a 13 year old student hated the lesson material or was mad because the teacher made them read, and they submit a review with one star, you lose your potential bonus.
SCHEDULE
I hear that some people have very lax schedules, I personally tend to have a very set and standard schedule. But they allow teachers to sign up as replacement teachers. They typically tag these teachers in case someone calls in sick or whatever but they also say that the classes will be added 15 minutes before the start time. This is nice, but consider a teacher calls out for an d E3 lesson and someone who has only taught PreE ends up being the one tagged to teach that lesson. They are not going to be prepared in 15 minutes, especially not if they are currently in a classroom while this class is added.
They also say the limit is fifteen minutes, but I’ve also been told it’s only five by an operator, so there is no telling.
This brings in another issue of notifications. Of all the things that the spam you with, they don’t seem to let you know ASAP when they book a replacement class. There have been many people who had a replacement class cancelled or showed up later, or even in a personal case of mine, didn’t know it was there and argued about it with an operator when a notification came in too late.
Overall, I just wish that this company would demonstrate how to be a good modern company for China so that other companies will follow suit but it seems instead that as usual, this company will mold into the same stereotypes of other Chinese companies, as unfortunate as that may be.
According to their website, the pay range is 16-23, not 18-25.
https://teacher.landi.com/recruit/index/faq.html
I signed a 6-month contract with Landi in early June, 2019. “Probation” lasts for the first 6 weeks; after that you receive your full pay. But it was only a couple weeks after my probation ended that they announced a new pay structure which meant a 20-25% pay cut for most teachers, and said we needed to sign new contracts which were much worse than the original contract — not only less pay, but reducing the time off policy to 3 times/year. That means if you are sick or have internet problems, etc., you get 3 days off in a 12-month period. Hundreds of teachers decided to leave at that point, which perhaps is what they wanted to happen since they hinted that they were having budget problems.
Another problem with Landi is the student pairings in classes. Quite often the students are at very different levels, so it is impossible to satisfy both students (and both sets of parents of the 2 students). If one or both give you a bad rating after a class, it can affect your salary. It is such a blessing when one of the students does not show up to class because then you can tailor the class to the level, personality, strengths and weaknesses of the student who does show up and give them a great class that they (and their parents) will be very happy with.
The teaching materials for Landi are low quality, so you have to be very creative to stretch the material to last 25 minutes and make it interesting and educational for the students. People who have worked for many online ESL companies who cater to children say that the Landi materials are the worst out of all the companies.
Some of the students are wonderful and very motivated to learn English and there are active and supportive Landi teacher communities on social media. Landi is a good company to get experience teaching English to young children online, but there are better companies out there.
Landi didn’t pay me for my first month as it was under 100$ which I was not notified of. After they changed the Completed slot incentive one day after I signed my contract bringing my salary down by an extensive amount. One week prior to receiving my first and second month’s pay, they fired me for a minor mistake and will not pay me for the 2 months that I have worked. I smell something fishy! Beware