UPDATE: Here's finally a link to my video explaining how I manage my work on Airtable!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnHLx2KV1hg
Cheers!
Hey there! I have been a Community Tutor on this platform for half a year now. It's been great experience, specially because it fits my current lifestyle very well with my own schedules. I would love to know about your experiences as teachers as well :)
I do wonder one thing, how do teachers on Italki manage their calendar with all their classes + other priorities (out of italki)?
I mean, do you only rely on Italki Calendar? Do you use any Management app? Or a physical notebook?
How do you keep track of your income, taxes, students...?
From my personal experience, I know that I am a messy person as default. So, I immediately relied on an external application to keep track of all my students and lessons.
The app I currently use is Airtable (it's sort of like Google Spreadsheet, but much more :D)
It has enabled me to organize everything my own way and it works marvelously. It gives an easy way to keep track of everything I input (from students information, how every lesson goes, what to do next class, monthly income, % of new students...). The greatest advantage I found is that it lets you see the overview of your teaching progress over time. The more info, the richer and useful it becomes.
I can talk more in detail about it if anyone is interested in this. My intention is actually to make a quick video tutorial + share the link of the template of my own base (of Airtable) so that the rest of the teachers can use it for themselves.
I did spend quite a decent amount of time building the table from scratch but since it's done already, I would love to see if it can benefit more people than only myself :)
Personally, I have a physical diary that is small enough to carry around with me. It has the week spread over two pages and there is a column for each day showing the hours. When I get a booking, it goes straight into the diary. This also allows me to see my week at a glance when a student asks me about availability. I keep track of the hours per day by writing the total at the top of a column, that way I don't get overwhelmed by accident. Install the italki app on your phone and you will get notifications before a session, one 2 hours before and another 30mins before.
You can also sync italki's calendar to google calendar, which is useful for double checking your schedule when you're out and about and have left your diary at home.
Hi Jason, thanks for your comment. You may want to check this link out. It's exactly what you are looking for:
