Waiting list for teachers
Myngle works hard to improve the learning and teaching experience every day, that’s why we have introduced a waiting list for new teachers. Let me explain how it works:
The waiting list is the list of teachers who signed up on Myngle but who are not active on the website. It is based on the demand of teachers per language.
Teachers who sign up on Myngle can start teaching only after they have passed their “consultation” and after they got through the waiting list. By having the consultation, Myngle checks if the new teachers are serious and have teaching experience, and we give tips and tricks to use Myngle the best possible way. This is done to ensure the quality of our offer.
With the waiting list Myngle wants to guarantee enough students per teacher to make it worthwhile teaching on Myngle.To guarantee enough students Myngle lets the amount of teachers grow in parallel to the growth of the students registered.The criteria to be listed in the waiting list are:
- The language taught
- The other languages spoken by the teacher
Students who want to learn a language from a beginner level may need a teacher who speaks (and probably teaches) their language fluently. That’s why we could have an opening for English teachers speaking Dutch, for example, but not accept any English teachers speaking French.
How does it work?
· When there is a new opening (depending on the growth of students and current teacher activity), Myngle will inform the teacher on the waiting list and give all the assistance needed to start teaching their first lesson. He/she will be required to send the CV to our consultants and will be contacted to shedule the consultation.
· Do you want to teach an extra language? There is no need for a new consultation. Just verify with Myngle and we will put you on the waiting list for the new language.
· Myngle wants to support new teachers. Once you are admitted as a new teacher, Myngle will make sure you receive enough exposure to get a good start. We will list you as a new teacher in a separate space on the webiste, called “Newly consulted teachers”. This way, students won’t mistake you for an unpopular teacher who didn’t teach any classes. New students registering on Myngle will also receive a personal suggestion of two teachers, one experienced and a newly consulted one.
Hopefully this blog post answers some questions and offers more clarity to our future teachers.We wish all of you a successful and fun experience on Myngle!
Elisa
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March 2nd, 2009 at 4:30 pm
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March 21st, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Hello,
I find this very interesting and useful. How can I enter myself into the list?
Kind regards,
Angel Stefanov
March 31st, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Dear Sir or Madam;
I am writing to inform you of my dissatisfaction with the kind of treatment I am receiving here at Myngle. I have registered as a teacher last February and every time I have tried to get my free consultation, it has either been cancelled or the person in charge, Hala Masreya in this case, didn’t show up.
If you don’t need new teachers, please let us know and do not make us waste our time. I was meant to have my last appointed meeting 40 minutes ago and I am still waiting for someone who always seems to have a problem when the time of my consultation comes. This is the third or fourth time this happens.
You say in your “Waiting list for teachers” blog that the consultation is to ensure we, teachers, are serious and have teaching experience. I truly feel your staff is not being serious at all by keeping a person waiting for more than an hour without warning her about the impossibility of carrying out the meeting.
I find your proposal exciting and I think I can add value to your site and services. I’ve been told you are very committed to the service you provide, please prove this right.
I’m really upset and disappointed. I hope to be reached with an explanation soon.
Thank you
Marcela García
March 31st, 2009 at 10:24 pm
I am happy to inform you that I have been contacted by Hala Masreya, who was really helpful guiding me thoughout the Myngle System and Teaching tools. Therefore, I want you to know that the previous lack of contact was just a sad misunderstanding.Please, do not consider my previous complaint. Thank you
April 5th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Dear Sir or Madam,
unfortunately I made the same experience as Ms Garcia.
Having signed on to the system in FEBR.2008 I am still
on the waiting list with no success to contact Ms Masreya.
I am changing currently position anyway from Thailand to
Cambodia, so too late for me to join the online teaching.
How long are you suppose to wait?
KarlChaingRai
April 9th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Dear teachers,
the waiting list is made on the best interest of both teachers and students, that is why it might happen that you are not consulted immediately as soon as you sign up.
If the waiting list is closed for one or more languages, you will not be contacted to schedule a consultation. We apologize for inconveniences caused to some teachers, we believe that a tighter selection will improve our services and the overall satisfaction of our costumers.
take care,
Elisa
April 15th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
I am experiencing exactly the same difficulties that Marcela and Karl have experienced. Hala has contacted me, asking when I am available and confirming my consultation date. Each time I sit in front of my computer waiting for her to contact me and she seems to always be unavailable. Again, today I received an email from her stating that today would be a good day for my consultation and that I should contact her on Skype. I have been waiting for 3 hours for her to log on. This is very frustrating. Myngle is a great idea and I would like to become part of it. But, there needs to be better communication between Myngle and prospective teachers. Don’t leave us hanging and waiting without communicating with us properly. This is the quickest way to loose good teachers and get a bad reputation.
Hoping that this gets solved quickly.
Liz
April 17th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
I made exactly the same experiences - I signed up weeks ago and my profile is still not active. Also, I really can`t see why they want your whole CV (personal data spy?!) to put you on this list - you have the student`s rating as a much better way to find out wheather somebody is qualified or not. Wheather somebody is able to explain something with patience and a good style can`t be told just from a CV.
Either the whole Myngle - thing is not very well thought, or this is just a way to collect personal data.
After all this hassle, I have deceided to close my account.
Good luck, guys!
Marl
April 25th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I also have exactly very difficulty experiences-I signed up on march and my profile is still not active. Sometimes, when I uneasily contacted with Hala.myngle on Skype,She would sign in for me, but a few minutes later, She suddenly signed off,Or was told that she had a internet technical problems.I was waiting for her again and again! Just could not come through and complete that consultation.I feel upset and very disappointed.
Good luck!
May 18th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Dear teachers,
we apologize for any inconvenience caused by the ‘rules’ of the waiting list. We receive hundreds of applications to be a teacher on Myngle and the waiting time to be approved is indeed quite long. At the same time, if the waiting list is closed for one or more languages, you will not be contacted to schedule a consultation, as we have quite a few teachers in line. We need to be selective considering the amount of applications received, as we would like to provide the best experience for all the active teachers we have on the platform.
Best regards,
Elisa Delaini
Education Manager
July 13th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Dear Sir/Madam,
i have to say that i feel sorry i have to make that complain. After i registered and i sent my cv i am still waiting for my “Myngle Consultation Guide”. I had to reschedule it because of a dental surgery that i had on the same day. I informed miss Hala 2 days before our scheduled meeting and she just said that she would reschedule it some time but i had a mail from myngle saying that i didn’t attend our meeting. I have sent several mails both to myngle and to miss Hala but still i have no answer. I just want to know how long do i have to wait for reschedule our next meeting and also i wanted to let you know that i was ok and i had informed miss Hala. Also i can not contact miss Hala through skype and i have tried several times.
I am looking forward for your answer ,
Eleni
July 15th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Hallo
ich bin auch sehr enteuscht.
Kann Jemand mir sagen wielange ich noch in Warteliste bleiben muss.
Jedes mal ich versuche ein schuller zu bekommen , bekomme ich die nachricht dss ich immer noch in Warteliste befinde, und das bei eine sehr seltene Sprache die ich lehren will, nämlich PERSICH.
Wenn ihr genug Lehrer haben die Persich lehren können, dann sagt mir bescheid, damit ich meine Zeit nicht hier vergolde.
Hello
I am also very much disappointed.
Someone can say to me, like for a long time, i still in waiting list to remain must.
Everyone times, i try to get a pupil. get the message, that, i still in waiting list rule, and with a very rare language, which i want to teach, indeed PERSIAN.
If it enough teachers have, . the Persian to teach can, then answer says to me, so that, i mean time gild not here.
July 26th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
please………..classes….
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:00 pm
no use of CAPS in favor of email efficiency-
the string of complaints greatly shadows appreciative comments with regards to unprofessional time management conduct Mingle staff has shown toward prospective teachers, which unfortunately reflects poorly on the future of Mingle.
first, while elisa - i believe the education manager of mingle - maintains that mingle “…receive(s ) hundreds of applications to be a teacher on Myngle and the waiting time to be approved is indeed quite long….”, it does not explain why teachers WHO HAVE BEEN CONTACTED BY MINGLE are left waiting upwards of 1 - 3 hours for a mingle rep to sign on ! Time should be respected with communication being gold. if Mingle is indeed overloaded for whatever reason, an email, or a phone call, is hardly much to ask in today’s age of rapidfire technology, especially if are to demand similar from students using the mingle site.
second, elisa mentions, “…if the waiting list is closed for one or more languages, you will not be contacted to schedule a consultation, as we have quite a few teachers in line….”. where is this waiting list that mentions subjects that are closed to new teachers? can we assume that, if mingle sends out an email POST APPLICATION requesting that a teacher send in a CV for further evaluation, the waiting list for that subject is still open? i filled in an application. decided to hold off on the CV until i worked out my paypal account situation. i have already received 2 emails from mingle urging me to send in my CV. i’m now looking through their site for info on which subjects are closed to new teachers and find no information, but unfortunately this string of comments/complaints…
while i believe there are twenty one and a third sides to every story, with several corners slashed to serve our own plot points, i wonder what truly is the mirth behind mingle ’scheduling consultation calls’ only to then not show….? this sort of mickey-mouse time management can spell the death of any enterprise.
as well, if there are any ‘pat on the back’ mingle stories, teachers, put them up here. threads aren’t productive if they are wholly biased towards rants. a small appreciative story, we, as a people, could use a lot more of…
i look forward to working with a progressive organization that shares my belief in respect for all - teachers, new applicants, students and strangers alike.
signed-
a prospective eESL teacher / documentary filmmaker, considering mingle to add to an already successful 5 year online teaching career
August 7th, 2009 at 1:09 am
Dear Sir/Madam,
I signed up and I am still waiting for any response on your side. I received an email saying I would be contacted.
How long do you think it will take?
Thanks a lot!
August 16th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
I have been considering signing up for a while, but given all the above, I would like to request that you publish somewhere what you want/need and what you neither want nor need.
This would save yourselves having to deal with so many applications that you can do nothing with, and it would save potential teachers the frustration of remaining so long on your list without contact from yourselves.
August 17th, 2009 at 10:06 am
O just visit this blog…sorry to hear those complaints!!
I am with Potential teacher. Myngle should post how many teachers will they need for a particular language…
August 23rd, 2009 at 4:02 pm
I signed up for Myngle before there even was a waiting list, my consultation never happened, she sad she had problems. Now I don’ even get responses to my emails. Im a Native English speaker who also speaks Spanish and Chinese.
August 29th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Dear Sirs
I am writing to express my dissatisfaction with the treatment I have received at Myngle. I registered as a teacher on november, 2008. After a lot of time, I finally had a consultation session, but my profile was never activated. I asked for an explanation, but I never received a reply. Finally, I was contacted because of my offer to help Thea. Hala sent me an email in order to activate my profile, but that email didn´t have any links to activate it, after requesting that link it was sent to me However, my profile was never activated. Hala told me that she couldn’t find my name. After some days, Myngle blocked my access to the site without any explanation. Everything seems very strange. I just pretended to help. Finally, I am not interested in the activation of my profile anymore.
October 5th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I am disappointed in reading this long list of negative comment, as I am a teacher with experience and have just spent 3 hours in carefully completing my profile on your site. If you really do not have open positions it would be far more professional to state it clearly, like other sites similar to yours do.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:16 am
I don’t see what the problem is, with teachers requiring to wait until there are sufficient student numbers. It’s the same with any business. I find the site well organised — this structure is helpful to me as I develop my teaching offering. I look forward to a consultation in due course and wish the site well in its efforts to develop its student intake.
PS. If it’s that easy to create student demand, why use a website like this? (rhetorical question)
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:25 am
I registered as a student and as a teacher. As a student, I have already been able to take part in a trial lesson of Spanish (quite successful). As a teacher, I waited long for some contact concerning the consultation session, then wrote an e-mail asking for one and received a series of e-mails boiling down to “catch Hala on Skype”, which I did, was promised a consultation session, waited 3 days & nothing happened, so asked again, had a lesson scheduled, then rescheduled (on Hala’s request), then Ms Hala was late for the lesson, then appeared for a few seconds & said sorry, then disappeared again with no sorry. I’m confused as hell. Hope to be offered some explanation. Needless to say, not looking forward to booking the Spanish course (nor recommending the site either to students or to really good teachers).
November 13th, 2009 at 8:07 am
i am waiting for classes to take make them learn and earnnnn………………………….
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:10 am
I don’t get it???
So I will be contacted via email?
November 25th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
hello ,
ive just registred on myngle and i really want to start teaching !!!!!!!!! please let me know at least how the process is going and if there will be a chance to teach very soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Hallo! I am waiting for a teaching. Please let me know when i going to start.
January 30th, 2010 at 10:04 am
Dear Sir/Madam,
This is Yoji. I am certificated Chinese teacher, just signed in Myngle today. Am I in wait list now? When will Myngle interview me?
Thanks!
Look forward your reply!
Best Regards
Yoji^.^
February 21st, 2010 at 8:47 am
hi im a teacher here in myngle but my profile is not active yet plz guide me!
February 21st, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Dear, myngle team.
I have registred as portuguese teacher, I have experience and I have sent my CV. When will be my interview? I am really qualified. hope answer.
Best Regards.
Joao Victor
May 7th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
I bookmarked this link . Thank you for good job !
May 10th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Dear sir,
I have registered today as a teacher on this website but they have told me that I m still on the waiting list.
How shall I wait to began my job?
Best regards.
May 12th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Undoubtfully interesting post u have here. It’d be just great to read more about that matter. Thanks for posting that material.
May 21st, 2010 at 11:28 am
I am a french teacher and i am still waiting but I have got patience and I think Hala has many teachers to manage with and to read your waiting list give me some courage !!
my courses are made hope to read you soon as teachers
best regards
May 21st, 2010 at 9:55 pm
me again !! Tomorrow I will call hala once more !! but don’t mind I am french but I have got degree from the best uniersity in paris LA SORBONNE !! and I have been teaching french for years i paris in the suburb and in the countryside !! so you can trust me !! in fact this waiting list worry me !! befor reading it I was patient but now I am asking if some body will really give me my training session !!
well I keep trust !!! my courses are made and !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 21st, 2010 at 9:56 pm
my name is ANNICK
May 21st, 2010 at 9:56 pm
dont write moutier says but annick says please
June 7th, 2010 at 11:09 am
Hi,
I am a little disappointed because I did my request as a teacher two months ago, and I don’t understand why I haven’t been contacting yet. I am a good teacher, and I have experienced, studies, dedication and responsibility. I think that never the list would be close, because the student is the boss, and he can pick up the better teacher for him. The close list just do that the teacher whose got into the web, and work there, be feel more confidence that must have. I dont know but the competence ever its good. Myngle could be a open site not close.
Regards.
October 15th, 2010 at 8:47 am
Hi,
Well it’s all very well to complain and have to put up with a bad vetting process to recruit teachers, how about delegation hey?I think Myngle needs to delegate the vetting to regional recruitment managers who know more about teaching qualifications in their regions, and who would also receive a smaller number of applications per region rather than a world wide batch of cvs.Just a thought…
Sylvie
December 7th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Hello,
After having read this long list of messages,I honestly feel disappointed too. I’ve signed up three months ago and I’m still waiting. I was so looking forward to teaching online that I prepared a whole bunch of power point presentation lessons and pdfs which are just useless to me right now.Of course I checked most of myngle’s ready to use courses and I found them to be very good.I also tried out a few of the other sites where you can teach online but compared to myngle, they were less organised and in the know of this business than myngle.Not to mention that one of them is purely unacceptable in terms of professionalism.My teaching experience with them was traumatic.Signing up to the site was as easy as pie and you could start teaching immediately.No credentials asked, no waiting list, no training!But while trying to teach in one of their virtual classrooms,a number of unknown users popped in and out of my classroom, messed with my PPTs and PDFs, moved them around and even made them disappear from my whiteboard!Some of the students had cameras, microphones and headphones while others had none but wanted to somehow learn what you were teaching by looking at their computer screens!!!Most of them were looking for free lessons.Others left their seats in the middle of a lesson to attend to a screaming child that everyone with headphones and mics could clearly hear in the background!But the most creepy part was that I could see the administrator of the site spying on me silently and messing with my slides!I felt humiliated and ridiculed!I’d rather go through a waiting list, submit my CV and have one of myngle’s trainers contact me to have a face to face discussion before I start teaching online anyday after that experience.Anyone who doesn’t have the guts to talk to the prospective teachers on their site face to face but resorts to other manipulative technics to deal with it, should never be responsible for an online teaching site. I know I’m venting my anger about another site right now, which is inaproppriate, but I have a faint hope that my experience will help some of the teachers here at myngle think twice before they condemn the waiting list. I don’t even know if Myngle is ever going to accept me or contact me but at least I feel less stressed because of the screening process which shows professionalism on their part.
Antonia
January 7th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Maybe it’s an idea to tell future teachers how long the waiting period is estimated. I’ ve been teaching privately Italian conversation for more than 2 years now, mostly to Dutch students and I would like to extend my working field, so I hope this waitinglist will not be too long!
Thanks for a reaction.
February 19th, 2011 at 9:52 pm
Hi
I am an Arabic teacher and i am still waiting but I have got patience,I hope you will enjoy studying Arabic Language with us!
I’m glad to offer you many special offers to learn Arabic:
- Modern Standard Arabic. (In nine Arabic levels).
- Egyptian Colloquial Arabic.
- Free Speaking Courses.
- Specialist Study (Economic Arbic Course - Politics Arabic Course - Literature Arabic Course - Officially Writing Arabic Course).
- Teacher Traning Course (How to be a teacher of Arabic Language to foreigners).
With my Best Wishes
Sayed Darwish
February 28th, 2011 at 10:54 am
I have registered with Myngle and I don´t know how long I will need to wait.
When signing up the lack of interest in anything outside language qualifications seems a bit prejudiced perhaps. I have a background in IT and have been doing telephone teaching for nearly 3 years now. I am still dubious about the need for webcams in training. This eats bandwidth - not always a problem but telephone only is very effective in my opinion.
When I started this I thought it would be a disadvantage but the reality is that the student simply adjusts and in fact he has to speak more clearly.
Well I guess I will have to wait but I will give updates as and when.
Steve
February 28th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Update - while waiting to get accepted I performed the test for my computer by clicking on the link in the Myngle page. The test failed for my network saying the my network might not be good enough for Myngle software…
That was with Telefonica 1Mb7sec service.
I then plugged in my second network - an OEM here in Spain. This is a 3Mb/sec service. The first time it scored 3.4Mbit, the second run got 2.4Mbit.
The same failure message was returned….
So this is invalid for 2 reasons and Myngle need to correct it.
1/ This kind of interactive software does not normally need anywhere near such high bandwidth.
2/ If Myngle are using such software they will dis-enfranchise themselves from the market as most people worldwide do not conveniently have access to such services.
So it does not make any sense.
Steve
April 20th, 2011 at 8:45 am
Hola
Estoy esperando hace varios meses por la confirmación de mi inscripción en el site como profesora de lengua portuguesa y de lengua castellana y hasta ahora no me han dado ninguna respuesta. Así que no sé siquiera si habrá llegado mi inscripción. Por los comentarios que acabo de leer veo que deben de haber tenido algunos problemas con otras solicitudes así que me gustaría que si posible me fuera aclarado que pasó en mi caso.
un cordial saludo
Simone
June 13th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Clearly this is a common problem. This site just lures people to come on here and register in the promise of lots of students. And then the teachers just wait and wait for approval and are unable to teach any students. Fortunately I am not dependent on MYNGLE I have several other efficient and helpful websites that I work for. I don’t have to wait around for you people to “approve” me. I am a highly experienced and qualified teacher with 30 years experience so I don’t need the ‘don’t call us we’ll call you approach”
A shame that you promise so much and supply so little!
June 24th, 2011 at 12:45 am
Hi:
I was waiting for my consultation class and nothing happened!!!
Pilar Trujillo
June 27th, 2011 at 9:10 am
Hola Hala,
Just to let you know that I have invited you to join me on Skype.
I look forward to our meeting 2 hours later at 12:00 today.
Best regar
June 28th, 2011 at 10:17 am
Hola Hala,
Could you please let me know if you still need Spanish teachers for business, Amber said to me that if I have the training session with you this week, I will be able to have a huge exposure next week with a big group, I wouldn´t like to miss that opportunity.
Let me know when it suits you better to reschedule our training session.
I have read this long list and I hope it doesn´t take so long to start to work with you.
All the best,
August 8th, 2011 at 9:03 am
I HAVE BEEN ON MYNGLE FOR ONE YEAR AND HALF !!! I AM A THUMBS UP TEACHER AND WHAN I TRIED TO JOIN NEW STUW HDENTS (THE TRAINING LESSON MADE ME LOST MY ONLY STUDENT !!!!° IT WAS WRITTEN YOU ARE ON A WAITING LIST !!!!!!! I DON T UNDERSTAND ANYMORE !!! WHAT DOEST IT MEAN I CAN NO MORE TEACH
YET I TEACH FRENCH I AM FRENCH GRADUATE IN THE MOST IMPORTANT UNIVERSITY FROM PARIS !! I AM TEAHCING FRENCH IN HICH SHCOOLFOR YEARS AND YEARS BUT JUST FEW HOURS SO I NEED MY STUDENTS ON MYNGLE !!
SOME BODY CAN HELP ME
August 18th, 2011 at 10:28 am
Hala didnt show up on our appointment today (11 a.m. 18.08.2011)
Very disapponted…. :-/