We understand that the Teacher Terms of Service can be a bit long to read. That is why we have prepared this code of conduct to help summarize the most important things to watch out while teaching on HKLMS.
Be Culturally Sensitive:
Be Culturally Sensitive: Respect the values and traditions of your students and keep in mind that stereotypical assumptions can be offensive.
We recommend avoiding conversations about:
- Marital status
- Politics
- Religion
All students should be treated equally. Picking a student based on their race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, or any other characteristic is not tolerable.
Be Professional and Empathetic:
Since students come from different backgrounds and have different language levels, it is important to be supportive and empathetic when helping them through their language learning difficulties. Encourage, support and give them confidence!
Always remember to maintain a high level of professionalism:
- Be prompt in replying to all student questions, messages and lesson requests.
- Actively manage your profile, updating your calendar to accurately reflect your availability and try to minimize rescheduling, cancelling and declining lesson requests.
- Take the initiative in communicating with and managing students. Make every effort to help them. Always be patient and polite.
- Provide a suitable learning environment for students, which includes proper lighting and quietness of the room and fast internet speed.
- Respect for student’s privacy. Always ask for students’ prior written or recorded consent for recording student’s video or audio.
- Be available to teach during the entire booked lesson time if a student is late.
- Attend All classes and Arrive On Time
- HKLMS expects that teachers will responsibly attend lessons at the scheduled time. Students appreciate teachers who can help them maintain a reliable and consistent study schedule.
Be an HKLMS ambassador
Maintain a positive attitude towards HKLMS and never make negative comments about HKLMS .
HKLMS Bannable Offenses
The following actions are not permitted on HKLMS and may lead to account deactivation and removal from the platform.
Taking students/teachers of HKLMS or accepting payment outside of the HKLMS system.
Promoting competing language services.
Engaging in spamming, disrespectful language, obscenities, theft of personal information, etc. Click to read the complete HKLMS Community Policy.
Providing or posting false, misleading, or inaccurate information (includes profile, teacher application form, course content, lesson history, feedback, etc).
Scheduling and starting lessons with yourself or with fake students.
Posting private contact information, which includes social media accounts and channels, email addresses, blogs, websites, IDs, and usernames.