關於 why online teaching is good ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

【Origin Stories - Ho Trung Dung, Chip Chip AW#21】
"My parents are one of my angel investors. They invested without expecting anything in return, despite coming from a relatively poor background. Growing up in Vietnam, they sacrificed a lot just make sure I got a good education and access to better opportunities in life. That’s why I've pushed myself to study and become a lifelong learner.

Although majoring in history during university, I eventually fell in love with computers. I read through every computer magazine, cover to cover. I started to learn how to install windows OS and do everything with the computer, including teaching myself how to program.

I eventually went out to start my own digital marketing agency. We were quite successful, making good money, but growth was slow. The business was very labor intensive and we were not helping that many people.

After 6 months of back and forth, I decided to give it all up to start something new. I had to abandon this image of a successful person. It was one of the toughest decisions I've had to make. But I realized that having a lot of money, a big car, big house, will only make us happy in the short-term.

I’ve always been obsessed with building tech solutions to positively impact many people. That’s why I had to do a startup again, this time focusing on English learning. It's been hard, and tiring, and filled with endless challenges, but I feel much more fulfilled than ever."

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Chip Chip (AW#21) is an online platform for Vietnamese students to find and books lessons from a directory of over 40 certified English tutors, now facilitating over 2000 lessons per month. Applications for AW#23 will be officially on 5/12, stay tuned!

⁉ CHÚNG MÌNH ĐÃ HỌC 8.0 IELTS THẾ NÀO ⁉

" Chào mọi người, mình là Nhật Minh. Mình thi IELTS trên máy tính vào ngày 05/01/2021 và được 8.0 overall.

Bản thân là 1 người 6.5 văn, mình sẽ cố hết sức để ít nhiều truyền đi một vài kinh nghiệm ôn thi của mình qua những câu văn lủng củng, mọi người thông cảm .

Đầu tiên thì mình sẽ nói kĩ hơn về quá trình học với IELTS Fighter: Mình học IELTS từ ngay sau Tết (khoảng 02/2020) với lớp Fighter B và học online (cảm ơn covid ). Mình học thầy Minh Đức, một người mình thấy khá ấn tượng vì thực sự dạy cho mình cái mà mình muốn học.

Lớp kết thúc vào tháng 5/2020, và mình trì hoãn việc thi đến tận nửa năm sau, một điều mình thực sự không recommend vì mình quên rất nhiều thứ. Từ vựng và cấu trúc ít dùng sẽ bị quên rất nhanh sau khi thoát khỏi khoảng thời gian 3 tháng, nên kết quả của mình bị ảnh hưởng ít nhiều do việc sử dụng các cấu trúc và từ vựng phổ biến và thuận miệng (nhất là trong writing). Nên mình thực sự khuyên mọi người nên thi ngay sau khi học vài tuần, vì quay trở lại môi trường thường ngày ảnh hưởng tương đối nhiều đến performance.

Anyways, mình sẽ nói kĩ hơn về từng kĩ năng:

🎯 Listening

Mình được 9.0 wooooo, thực sự thì đây là kĩ năng mình tự tin nhất nên mình ôn tập listening khá ít. Nhưng cái chiến thuật mà mình hay dùng khi nghe là dịch nghĩa toàn bộ những câu mà mình nghe được, không nhất thiết phải words-for-words mà giống như tóm tắt lại trong đầu câu vừa nói ra mang thông tin gì.

Cái này thì mình nghĩ luyện tập bằng những đề trên mạng sẽ hỗ trợ nhiều, but again, đây không phải là kĩ năng mình ôn tập nhiều.

🎯 Reading

A disappointing 8.0, thực sự đây cũng đã từng là kĩ năng mình thực sự tự tin cho đến khi biết kết quả. Khi thi mình còn thừa 30p và có lẽ sai lầm lớn nhất đó là mình đã quá chủ quan. Reading từ xưa nay đã luôn được coi là phần "gỡ điểm", nên trước khi thi mình cũng không hề lo lắng.

Tuy nhiên thì rõ ràng giữa 9.0, 8.5 và 8.0 thì khác biệt là 3, 4 câu sai, và 1.0 có thể mất trong vòng dưới 1p khi mà trả lời sai vài câu trắc nghiệm. You can never be too sure.

🎯 Speaking 7.0

Mình cũng khá là chú ý đến những từ và cách diễn đạt của các thầy cô, kể cả những presentations như là ted talks, vì cách nói của họ và cách truyền tải thông tin, cách phân tích và bố cục của câu từ là những cái mà mình nghĩ ai cũng nên hướng tới. Kĩ năng nói của mình đi xuống rất nhiều sau cái quãng thời gian nửa năm, vì không những mình quay trở lại sử dụng tiếng việt và tiếng anh đơn giản, mà mình mất đi cái môi trường cao cấp và cái thói quen nghe ted talks.

Also, mình bị interviewer nhắc nhở khá nhiều về việc "be general" khi trả lời part 3, do mình hay gặp khó khăn trong việc tìm kiếm ví dụ ngoài liên hệ bản thân. Nên là 1 cái tricks mà mình nghĩ ra ngay sau khi thi là sử dụng "a lot of my peers" rồi nói về ví dụ bản thân, might saves a few points

🎯 Cuối cùng là Writing 7.0

Đây chắc là cái mọi người mong chờ nhất và có lẽ là cái mình kém nhất. Mình bị cái tật là viết dài, đôi lúc thì trùng lặp luận điểm, đôi lúc thì miên man ra tứ phương thay vì tập trung vào chủ đề chính, vậy nên mình thực sự nghĩ để học ielts thì cái thói quen viết văn tiếng việt phải thay đổi, cái tư tưởng viết dài là impressive là phải bỏ ngay lập tức.

Viết dài tốn thời gian và người chấm cũng chả muốn đọc, cộng thêm vài lỗi đã nói ở trên nữa thì rõ ràng nên viết ngắn gọn. Khi luyện viết ở nhà, do có lợi về thời gian, nên học cách làm cô đọng đoạn văn, mỗi câu có vai trò của nó và nên bảo toàn cái vai trò đấy, tránh miên man sang chủ đề khác.

Oh yeah and studying 1 week prior to the test is not ideal, AT ALL. I'm legit trying to figure out why I thought that was a good idea. And overconfidence is stupid.

For teaching me everything I know about IELTS basically, and for continuing to assist this failure after half a year, I guess that's about it, Big thanks to Mr.Duc Dang.

Thanks, bye.

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" Xin chào mọi người, mình là Phạm Quang Bảo Long, học lớp B264 của thầy Đức. Vào ngày 25/11 mình được IDP báo tin đã được 8.0 IELTS! Một phần không nhỏ trong số điểm này là nhờ đội ngũ các thầy cô và nhân viên của trung tâm IELTS Fighter.

Qua quá trình học tập và ôn luyện tại trung tâm, mình muốn chia sẻ trải nghiệm của mình tại IELTS Fighter!

Đầu tiên, mình thấy đội ngũ giáo viên ở trung tâm vô cùng tâm huyết, và không chỉ cực giỏi về chuyên môn mà còn giàu kinh nghiệm giảng dạy nữa! Trong lớp học, thầy cô quan tâm, chăm sóc, khuyên nhủ từng học sinh một, có vướng mắc hay câu hỏi gì là giải đáp ngay, luôn đảm bảo trên lớp ai cũng nắm bắt kĩ càng nội dung bài học.

Không chỉ thế, ngoài các giờ học "giấy bút", các thầy cô còn bao gồm cả những tiết thực hành không những bổ ích và giúp học sinh nắm chắc các kĩ năng đã được học, mà còn phần nào giúp giải bớt phần nào áp lực thi cử. Còn nữa!

Cùng với đội ngũ giáo viên chất lượng, các anh chị bên đội chăm sóc cũng rất nhiệt tình tư vấn, giúp đỡ từng học sinh, từ những câu hỏi về trung tâm như giờ giấc, group facebook, messenger, hay những câu hỏi về kì thi IELTS, các anh chị đều giải đáp kĩ càng.

Yếu tố con người tuyệt vời như vậy, nhưng cơ sở vật chất cũng không thua kém. Mình học ở 376 Nguyễn Văn Cừ và thấy trung tâm rất khang trang, sáng sủa và sạch đẹp, phòng học cũng được trang bị máy chiếu, màn hình, bảng trắng, loa đài đầy đủ, giúp việc học hành và giảng dạy hiệu quả hơn. Gần đây trung tâm còn vừa chuyển qua địa chỉ 388 Nguyễn Văn Cừ còn mới và hiện đại hơn nữa! Rất tiếc là minh mới học được ở đó 1 buổi 🙁 .

Bài "review" của mình xin được chấm hết. Mình mong rằng ý kiến của mình có thể giúp được những bạn đang tìm kiếm trung tâm luyện thi IELTS hay những phụ huynh đang đầu tư cho tương lai của con em mình. Cảm ơn các bạn đã đọc bài viết này của mình.

Chào thân ái, chúc các bạn cũng luyện thi hiệu quả ạ!

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Hành trình chinh phục 8.0 IELTS của Minh và Long là một thời gian dài được tích lũy nhiều năm từ học trên lớp và cuối cùng hệ thống hóa để bứt phá với chương trình học tập hiệu quả cùng IELTS Fighter. Cảm ơn hai bạn đã lựa chọn trung tâm để cùng ôn luyện thời gian qua!

Các bạn ơi, sở hữu bằng IELTS điểm càng cao thì ưu thế càng lớn cho tương lai. Bạn đã sẵn sàng cho bước tiến mới chưa?

Hãy cmt hoặc inbox ngay cho cô m.me/ielts.fighter để cô tư vấn lộ trình học nhanh nhất nhé!

I'm a private tutor. I run a small tuition centre. After deducting rent, marketing & administrative costs - I take home around $2500 a month. I teach more than 10 classes weekly.
It has been a very demoralising few weeks.

1. Amidst the suspension of centre-based tuition classes - parents have asked for discount on fees. I tried to help whenever I can by waiving off fees or giving discounts, knowing fully that it will be at my own expense.

Yet, I've received a lot of comments from parents who do not have financial difficulties, going "e-learning should be cheaper".

e-Learning IS not cheaper than classroom based learning. It has been 2 sleepless weeks with this mad scramble to move classes online. We've had to to spend sessions doing orientation for you and your children to help explain how to do classes online. We had to buy IT equipment, video recording equipment - all of it not cheap with my measly $2500 monthly salary.

You think it's less effort - it's not. It's more effort and more work. And you want to pay us less.

Please don't undermine our efforts by requesting to pay us less. If you have financial difficulties, we will discount for you. But don't say "e-Learning should be paid less". Thanks.

Rental still goes on - landlords who don't take the initiative to help and pass on rental rebates, I'm looking at YOU!

2. We totally understand that why we have been closed down. Health comes first - sure.
However, can don't call us non-essential?
School is essential, tuition is non-essential. Minister said that. True facts of life.
But, but. Can you also see this.
In every sector, there are good people and there are bad people.
In the tuition sector, there are some of us good ones and some of us bad ones.
I dare say, I care about each and every-one of my students. I do my best to motivate. I do my best to talk to them when they have family troubles. I come up with extra worksheets when I know they are lagging behind.
In schools, you also have teachers who are not motivated, who only come to school for the paycheck and do the minimum.
If all school teachers are good - need tuition teachers for what?
If everybody scoring A1, A2 and A* - then no need for tuition. Some parents find tuition because their kids have been failing.
We don't need you to recognise us. But don't call us non-essential can?

3. Common comment from school teachers and from the public - "They should pay school teachers more" or "Tuition teachers make so much money".
You know how many times I roll my eyes at this?
Straits Times - I'm looking at you. Thanks for always reporting on "million dollar" tutors. Now everybody thinks that all tutors make millions.
Reality check - If you are a school teacher and you think you will make a lot of money leaving the public sector, feel free to go try your luck.
Is every school teacher a Principal? or a Cluster Superintendent? or a Director? No right?
Same thing with the private sector ok? The top tutors make a lot of money. The normal tutors like us make close to the 'median' $4600 of the typical Singaporean.
We don't have CPF.
We don't have AWS.
We don't have performance bonus.
In November & December, we eat bread but still pay rent.
Whatever we earn in 10 months, must ration across 12 months, because November & December parents go holiday and don't want tuition.
No - regular tutors don't make millions.
Stop dreaming. Most school teachers are not zai. If they leave the public sector, they will eat grass.
I make $2500 a month - if you feel that is fantastic, you can be my guest. You have a choice. If you think you can make more as a private tutor, take the plunge into the world of the unknown.

4. Teachers got a lot of admin work, not like private tutor only need to teach
We don't have admin work. We have "admin work" - marketing, accounting & trying to keep the business alive. We don't only teach.
You have a 'clear thick' line between yourself and parents. We don't. We are obligated to answer, and talk to parents everyday. Do you know there are parents who call us and talk to us everyday about their kids and their anxieties? (a lot of parents from top schools are actually very anxious about their kids) I spend 1 to 2 hours daily talking to 2 to 3 parents everyday.

5. Thank you for classifying us together with KTVs, Bars & Entertainment
I called the bank to lower my credit card interest because in anticipation of school closures, I invested heavily in video recording equipment and IT equipment that I actually cannot pay for with my measly salary.
Guess what the bank said? You are not from an eligible 'adversely affected' sector.
Adversely affected = tourism, aviation, F&B and entertainment.
Entertainment qualifies but private education doesn't qualify.
Again, i understand why we have been shut down. But can everyone remember us private tutors have families to feed too? Mortgages or rent to pay? Bills to pay?

6. We are human beings too
We have feelings. We have empathy. We have tried to help whenever we can. My tuition centre offers free tuition all these years to whomever are on MOE Financial Assistance scheme. When parents face difficulties (retrenched, fell sick), we always cut our fees or give free. When students ask for extra help, we coach and we don't charge extra.

We are trying our best too. Really. We are all in this together.
I don't know since when being a 'private tutor' is a nasty thing.
Maybe tuition centres like Learning Lab, Mavis Tutorial or any of those big tuition centres with big MRT and bus adverts and sprawling land space of more than 10000 square feet might make millions of dollars a year. Maybe they have strong investors with hundreds of millions. But hey that's not us. Don't assume that we have a mountain of profits to stomach this because we don't.

Also, a lot of our kids and a lot of our parents always tell us that school teachers always say bad things about private tutors. "Tuition is a waste of money", "don't need go for tuition", "private tutors are not qualified and don't know what they are teaching".
Some teachers seem to spend a lot of time bad-mouthing private tutors.
Just focus on teaching your kids please. You still have a job.
I may not have one when the dust settles.
Also, remember that a lot of us private tutors were once school teachers.
Some of us left because of school mergers.
Some of us left because we were pregnant, had kids and could no longer cope.
Some of us left because we don't want to deal with this crap called EPMS.
Some of us left because we don't want to deal with all the politics, committees, organising overseas trips and want to just focus on the kids.

Please support your tutors, thank you. A lot of us, really do care, genuinely for your child.
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#80161: https://www.nuswhispers.com/confession/80161

I don't really know why I didn't do this kinda video earlier.
It was really fun filming it.
And when I see all the videos that I've been making, I also see the change of myself. I've come a long way....in many aspect. A couple of years ago, my English was not as good, not to mention talking, teaching in front of a camera with a foreign language and at the same time trying to bring out the "real me" my " true color" as a professional Mandarin teacher.
I'm really proud of myself as I'm watching my recent videos. I know that I've grown so much professionally. I can say that this is very close to the "real me" when I'm in class speaking to my students or even in life when I'm speaking with my friends.

It is really HARD to present yourself in public for me since I really didn't know how to..
But now...I think I'm getting better in front of my camera.

Lastly, I hope you like this Q&A video and hope it helps!
I'm looking forward to seeing myself bring more surprises and advancements with my online teaching career!!!! :)
Katrina

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Sites like social blade are estimations. There are many factors when determining Youtube money Just google is "Social Blade Money accurate" and see for yourself. Think for yourself and don't believe one hater (with a history of hating on other more successful youtubers) with wrong and jealous intentions. I focus on making videos about my friends and Vietnamese people all over the world and my life. Use logic and make your own decision based off of how many great videos, all the people i've helped, , and inspired to visit their motherland through videos I've produced and the hundreds of good people I've featured on my channel and not some false accusations.

When people are jealous of you, they can find a million reasons to hate on you from a single word to your years of work. Don't be fooled by slander, lies, and exaggerations about Kyle Le and Yevato from people with agendas to grow their own channel. The depth, quality, and quantity of our current videos should paint a picture of who we are, not rumors and attempted hit pieces from people who never met us or don't even know us personally. It's easy to hate when you don't understand the whole picture and use only your own narrow bitterness and resentment of people better than you because they worked harder to make more and better content than you.

Kyle Le's story
I graduated with a degree in history and moved to Vietnam to teach high-school history because I've always had a passion to teach, wanted to explore the motherland, and to share a global language to my people. I only had 1,000 dollars and a ton of student debt to my name when I moved over right after graduating university. Fortunately, I met my friend and room mate John of many years who first allowed me to stay in his kitchen for three months. When I worked more I was able to afford my own place (with other roommates) After a year I was ready to go home, but then I met Yevato OldBoy who gave me an opportunity to work more. Then, I started working 14-15 hour days 6-7 days a week- sometimes going without a day off for months. (Videos were filmed during holidays and vacations and released months later. I grinded hard for years to have a better life for myself and kept making YouTube videos to share my experiences. When more opportunities came through YT, I decided to lessen my teaching load to focus more on videos. Everything I do is for YouTube. From shoes to walk to film, to new cameras to make better videos, to investing in a quiet and safe place to live to edit videos. If you think around 1500USD (earnings vary every month depending on ad views) is enough for Vietnam, you're not wrong, but it's not enough to produce content from all over VN and Asia. And not enough for a stable life . Traveling is expensive, Travel for videos is even more expensive. Videos do not make themselves. This is why there has never been another YouTube channel as in-depth as this one about Vietnam and Viet Kieu featuring Vietnamese people from all over the world. This is a business and I'm investing myself and my money into it. I have nice things because I worked for them. Also, Patreon has been helpful to the growth and quality of videos. More money = more travel = more videos.

Many years ago my mechanic hit a young girl who ran out into the streets. It was not his fault nor was it my fault. I was saving up money to buy a better bike for myself and I was upset that I had to pay almost 1000 dollars for something I had nothing to do with. I still paid even though I was worried about getting scammed. There was no cover up. I blogged about it. If I wanted to hide it, why would I publicly post it? I also blogged about helping them and paying for her medical bills just a few posts later and why wasn't that mentioned in the hit piece against me?

I was a very angry and bitter person when I was younger. I always looked at the world as if it was against me. My jokes and satire were immature and at times distasteful. But I evolved and grew up and spending more time with OldBoy and his family allowed me to become a more positive person. It improved my videos, my networking, and my life. The 22-25 year old me is not the 27 year old me. Actions, words, jokes, comments in the past don't reflect the current me or my views on Vietnamese people or Vietnamese women. That video was taken down quickly after it was uploaded because I realized my immaturity. It is no longer online or on my channel Again, my early views and ignorance new to Vietnam do not reflect who I am today.

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