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Lydia Law
Teachers on Italki: How do organize yourself?

Hey there! I have been a Community Tutor on this platform for five months 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 list is infinite, it all depends on what you want to know clearly about. It even lets you create an automatic "form" to fill when a new lesson is scheduled, for instance.

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 table (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 :)

Hasta pronto!


Comentários · 5

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Hello Lydia,


Thank you for your discussion post.  I tend to be a physical organizer. I use paper and folders with my students name, progress, etc.  I am interested in the progress you have made with digital organization.  I have some fun tools that I use to inspire my students to "stay" learning with me.  We can share information via italki [email addresses]

Regards,

Caleb Taylor

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That's great, thank you very much.
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Hi Lana,

Nice hearing from you. I think this is what you are looking for:

https://support.italki.com/hc/en-us/articles/206353208-How-do-I-sync-my-class-schedule-with-my-calendar-program-

This is a quick tutorial to syncronise your italki calendar with the Google calendar, so that you don't need to do it for every lesson. Very useful indeed :)

Best,

Lydia

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Hello Lydia


What a useful post.  I have only been on italki for a few weeks and I'm really enjoying it so far.  I'm mainly using the italki calendar to keep track of lessons but then also putting them in my Google calendar.  I'm hoping to find a better way of transferring them into Google as at the moment I'm typing each one in and don't want to make any errors.  I need to plan the rest of my commitments outside of italki so feel I need to do this.


Lana 

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Hi Caleb,

Thanks for sharing your methods. I would love to hear about your strategies to improve students curiosity.

Best,


Lydia

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