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Native English Teacher for Kids & Teens – Radwanice (Wrocław area), afternoons

From 85 PLN net per teaching hour · In person, afternoons Mon–Fri · B2B via business incubator (no need to set up your own business)

Why we exist

Many children in Poland study English at school for years and still freeze when someone actually speaks to them. They’ve done the grammar, the worksheets and the tests. Nobody gave them the chance to talk.

We started Effective English to change that. Children speak English. Not someday. Now.

We want children to love coming to English: to run into the classroom, not be dragged there. We want every child to leave every lesson having said something themselves: a full sentence, out loud, on their own.

We want to teach English so that it becomes a tool children use, not an obstacle — so they never have to shrink their dreams to the size of their English.

Who we are

A language school for children and teenagers aged 6–18 in Radwanice, running since 2017. Small groups of 4–8 students. No coursebooks.

We’re a small, growing team that talks openly about what’s working and what isn’t, admits mistakes, and keeps getting better at teaching children.

We’re not looking for “the next teacher”. We’re looking for people who want to build this with us.

This job is for you if

• You enjoy preparing lessons, and you keep asking yourself: how can I make this more fun?
• A child gives you one word and you hand it straight back as a full sentence for them to say.
• You look at a “difficult” child and see a child who hasn’t been reached yet. You look for a way to bring them in, not a label to put on them.
• You push children to do their best, and they can feel you’re on their side.
• You want to be a better teacher next month than you are today.
• You’d teach the same lesson with the same energy whether or not anyone’s watching.

This job is not for you if

• You want to teach from a coursebook, from behind a desk, or with minimal prep.
• Your main tool for managing a class is warnings and punishments.
• You’re looking for online or remote work.
• You don’t really enjoy working with children.

YOU TEACH. WE HANDLE THE REST.

If you’ve ever taught privately, you know the lesson is only half the job. The other half is arranging things with parents, rescheduling, cancellations, chasing payments and doing invoices.

Here, your energy goes into the classroom

• We find the students and build the schedule.
• Our office handles contracts with parents, day-to-day messages and payments.
• The business incubator handles your invoicing.
• Lesson plans are ready for you. No building lessons from scratch in the evenings.
• You’re never alone with a difficult group. Every Friday we go through students and lessons together.

PAY

• 85 PLN net per teaching hour to start.
• About 16–17 teaching hours a week to start, with more groups as the school grows.
• Team meetings (about 2.5 hours a week) and student feedback are paid on top. (pay is different than for teaching hours)
• In a full teaching month, that’s roughly 6,000–6,700 PLN net, for afternoon work only.
• We’ll be upfront: months with school holidays, such as Christmas or winter break, have fewer lessons.

How you grow here

Everyone starts at Junior, and your rate goes up with each level

• Junior – everyone starts here.
• Core – you meet our standard reliably.
• Senior – you can train and mentor other teachers.
• Elite – you set the standard; your lessons become the reference for the team.

We observe lessons regularly and give you specific feedback: real feedback for your development, not a performance review. You move up after two strong observations in a row. Your level depends on what happens in your lessons, not on how long you’ve been here.

Want to earn more? There’s extra paid work for teachers who want it: supporting new teachers on their trial days and writing lesson plans for our shared lesson bank.

Your role

• Teach small groups in the afternoons, using our school’s lesson plans.
• Have your materials ready before the first child walks in.
• Notice who didn’t speak, and go back to them before the lesson ends.
• Take ownership of your students’ progress and raise problems early.
• Write short weekly feedback on your students.
• Come to our weekly Friday meeting.

Before you apply

We can only consider applications that meet all four of these

• You live in the Wrocław area or are moving here. All lessons are in person at our school in Radwanice. There is no online teaching.
• You have the right to work in Poland: EU citizenship, or a residence card with access to the labour market.
• Your English is native or native-level (C2).
• You have experience teaching children or teenagers in a classroom, not only online or one-to-one.

How we hire

• Apply here. We’ll email you 5 short questions to answer in a video (up to 10 minutes).
• A short visit (about 2–3 hours): come and watch a few of our lessons.
• Paid trial day: you teach 3 lessons from our plans, with the group’s teacher in the room.
• Bring one idea of your own to make one activity more fun.
• If we both want to go ahead: a paid onboarding week. You observe lessons and learn our method.
• Your first observed teaching day. If something isn’t there yet, you get specific feedback and another try.
• How long it takes: after your trial day, you’ll hear from us within a few days. If we go ahead, it’s about two weeks from your trial day to your first observed teaching day.