One of my most popular videos on YouTube is an arranged trial lesson for Preply. I created this video for one purpose: to help other professional online tutors deliver better first lessons to potential students. The video is available below for those that have not seen this.
I decided to record a real-life, authentic first lesson with a potential student. He booked a first lesson with me but did not share much information about himself, nor about his language goals. I thought this would be the ideal lesson to record and share, to demonstrate how I develop rapport with someone that I have never met before. Furthermore, this was not a pre-arranged trial lesson with a person pretending to be a student but it was authentic as it could be.
In this post, I will be sharing ways to teach students online (but it is also applicable for face-to-face teaching) whom you know nothing about. Read on for more ideas and there is also a video at the end of the post where I share exactly the same scenario with a real-life student.
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