We do accept applicants with relevant teaching experience or education background, even if you do not have a bachelor’s degree. We provide trainings to help our teachers improve their classroom performance. However, we do require our teachers to have at least one-year in class teaching experience due to our small class environment.

Yes! As long as you are a native English speaker from the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, New Zealand or Australia, you can teach with us. Our platform supports teachers teaching from any place in the world with internet.

You need 3 steps to become a Protostar teacher: Submit your resume on our recruitment website; If you pass the resume screening, you will be invited to complete the interview and test session; If you pass all the interviews, you will receive an offer email with a contract to e-sign.

Once your resume has passed our initial review, we will contact you to schedule an interview. The interview will be conducted through Classin, the platform we used for atual teaching. The content for the teaching demonstration will be sent to the applicant along with the interview invite.

The complete interview consists of 2 parts including an interview and a test session 1. The interview is 40 minutes long. It will consist of 2 parts: Part 1 – teaching showcase using Protostar content (10 minutes) Part 2 – company introduction and Q&A (30 minutes) 2. After passing the interview you will be invited to a test session. In the test session you will do a more complete demonstration of your teaching, including phonics, reading, writing, worksheets, etc. You will received more details about the interview process in your interview invite.

We will contact you within 2 business days after the interview to inform the result.

Our contract term is 12 months.

Step 1: complete our onboarding process. Step 2: attend the new teacher training, complete the quiz to demonstrate that you are ready to teach for Protostar. Step 3: confirm your availability and be ready to start teaching.

We will revisit your contract one month prior to the expiration date to confirm the renewal.

Your pay rate (per 40 min lesson) consists of $15 base pay plus up to $7 bonus pay based on attendance and performance. There is an additional $7 substitue bonus per lesson for each class you substitute for. You can sign up to be “standby” for certain time slots, and get notified if a substitute teacher is needed.

Yes, there is a $50 bonus for each successful referral from Protostar teachers.

You will receive your monthly payment on the 15th of each month. Protostar provide WISE or PayPal as payment options for teachers.

Send an email to your Protostar contact for any questions you have.

Protostar teachers are independent contractors and responsible for their own taxes in accordance with their individual tax jurisdictions or country’s laws.

Please refer to the "Recruitment" tab of this website for class schedule.

We will send you a confirmed email before the first lesson starts.

We completely understand if our teachers need to cancel a lesson due to different reasons. If you need to cancel a certain class for any reason, please send an email plus a test message or Wechat message to your Protostar contact person ASAP.

We encourage our teachers to forecast their vacation plans as early as possible to help arrange class schedule timely. Please provide your vacation details upon signing the contract. Please note that your vacation will not count towards your cancellation limitations if you forecasted it 3 month in advance.

If you have extra bandwidth to add classes, you can sign up as “standby” teacher during that class timeframe. You will be notified if a substitute teacher is needed in your “standby time”. If you choose to take the class, you will get an additional $7 per lesson bonus. Please be aware that the notification may be send at a very short notice, and the first teacher who confirm availability will be selected. Being on “standby” does not guaranty a class.

Your classes are booked based on the match requirements. If you want to teach additional classes: Feel free to send us an updated selection of classes, we will match you with new students. We will notify you if we update our schedule and have new time slots opened. Sign up as a “standby” teacher during your additional available time.

No. We will provide you with all the teaching contents and instructions developed by experienced US school teachers.

For each demo class, the teacher needs to provide an evaluation within 24 hours after the class. For regular class, the teacher only has to provide an evaluation summary each week after the last lesson of that week. Teachers are encouraged to use our templates for the feedback.

Start your class on time if there is at least 1 student in the virtual classroom. If none of your students shows up 15 minutes after the class starts, it will be considered as a “student no show”. You can exit the classroom, and you will still get paid in full for this lesson.

Protostar assigns a class assistant for each class. They are liaisons between teachers and students/guardians to facilitate the communication and resolve any issues. You can contact your class assistant for any issues you have, including but not limited to: Class scheduling Question about the curriculum content Classroom disciplines Students’ progress Offline practices needed

Notify your class assistant for help, meanwhile, you can mute the student(s) except for their participating time.

During the class, please try to involve them or engage with them as much as possible without disrupting the class environment. After class, make sure you provide the feedback about your students, and notify your class assistant about the situation.