👩🏼🏫 My Qualifications
I didn't just wake up one day and decide to start teaching languages. I'm a certified ESL teacher with actual high school & language school teaching experience.
I have:
👀 Taught at a language school for 3 years
👀 Taught English and ELA (English Language Arts) at middle & high school for 3.5 years
👀 Taught Polish to foreigners online for 4+ years
🤓 My 3S Teaching Method
Over my years as a foreign language teacher, I created my own teaching style and teaching method, which I called The 3S Method because I make learning Polish:
👉🏻 Simple
👉🏻 Structured
👉🏻 Speaking-focused
See, most methods for teaching a second language focus on either one of the aspects of the language. They either go heavy on the speaking or on the grammar–but rarely, they do both.
My teaching method focuses on having you speak right away while teaching you the language bit by bit. This way, you're learning to use the new vocabulary and grammar skills in practice as you go, making it easier for you to actually form correct sentences in Polish.
MY ORIGINS STORY
I became a Polish teacher during the pandemic.
2020. I was an English teacher in a local high school in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Then, the pandemic hit. The schools closed, and we began to give classes from home via Zoom.
At that time, I had been thinking about teaching online on a platform called iTalki for a while. In the past, I tried signing up to teach Spanish and English on the platform. Both attempts didn't work out.
But one day, as I was closing off my laptop around 2 pm after my school day was over, something told me to try again. This time, to teach my native language - Polish.
I created my profile on iTalki, thinking, "No one's going to want to learn Polish anyway..." Well, they did.
I got my first Polish student, Shaun, two weeks after I created my iTalki teacher profile. My second student, Charles, booked his first class with me the following week. They both stayed with me for months, and I gave them over 100 classes each.
3 years later, I've given over 900 lessons on iTalki to over 100 students and gathered many 5-star reviews. I can safely say that my students love my classes.
And I truly enjoy giving them!
