How to Make Money with your Lesson Plans and Instructional Materials

January 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Founder’s Note: This is a guest post from Stephen Gonzalvo, founder of an upcoming marketplace (TEACHERS EARNING ONLINE) for teacher lesson plans and materials. It’s an exciting and promising venture.

Opportunity for Teachers to Earn while Sharing Knowledge

As a teacher, there are a couple of things that you need to deal with. Among these are managing the students in class, presenting your instructional materials in a way that is understandable to students, and evaluating your students’ performance.

One of the most difficult tasks, however, is preparing lesson plans for class.  Preparing lesson plans is a daily activity which can take so much time.  On average, a teacher needs at least a couple of hours to prepare a lesson plan for one class. Some teachers say that they need a couple of days to finish a perfectly good lesson plan.  The task gets more complicated if you are teaching two or three different subjects in different grade levels.

Back then, a teacher needs to be innovative and use the small amount of time he has to come up with good and meaningful lesson plans for his students every day.  In many cases, teachers have to sacrifice so much just to prepare for their class the following day.

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Buying Lesson Plans Online

What if there is a website that can help you get that lesson plan for your class the next day in just minutes? In this website, you can choose lesson plans and other instructional materials which you need for all your class.

This way, you will save a lot of time and avoid all that stress by buying it from a colleague who has been teaching that subject for years.   You can also get new ideas from your colleagues that can help you revise and improve your own lesson plan.

Selling your Lesson Plans Online

Let us go a bit further.  What if you have existing lesson plans which you update every year?  Let us say, you keep these lesson plans and instructional materials which are products of your hard work and dedication to your profession.

You have been sharing these lesson plans to your colleagues for quite some time and they have recognized you for it.

What if you there is a website that will allow you to sell those lesson plans. Would it not be great if you will earn extra cash from the fruits of your labor?

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How Teachers Earning Online (TEO) can Help our beloved teachers

Teachers Earning Online (TEO) can help teachers get access to hundreds of lesson plans that they need for their class. At the same time, TEO can help entrepreneurial-minded teachers to earn from sharing their knowledge.  TEO believes that there is wealth in sharing knowledge.  Teachers are also entitled earn while doing the things that they love to do.

Teaching is a noble profession and the teachers are our unsung heroes.  But they do not have to be martyrs to do what is expected of them.

With the power of the Internet, there are a lot more opportunities now for teachers to prepare their lesson plans the easy way.  Teachers can still be effective without sacrificing so much of their time.

Nowadays, teachers do not have to burn the midnight oil just to finish one lesson plan.

There is no better time to become entrepreneurs than today.  With the tools available now, enterprising teachers can take advantage of their skills and expertise to be recognized in their field by their colleagues and to earn extra bucks from their hard work.

Join the conversation with your fellow teachers and “Like” TEO’s fan page at facebook.com/teachersearningonline

 

Argee Abadines

Argee Abadines is the founder and chief content engineer of this website. He is a brain based educator and his educational interests are higher order thinking, creativity, and educational technology. He reads up regularly about trends in education and online media. You can visit his personal blog at pinoyminimalist.com

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Teach on paper: How to use your skills in feature writing

August 17, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Teachers Write

Teachers are the best people to write feature articles, especially the how-to article, which provides instructions or advice on how to do something. Your topic can be arts and crafts, a recipe, tips for parents, solutions to common classroom problems, and many more.

You just need to translate your skill as a teacher to that of a writer. Before a lesson, you begin by outlining your objectives and providing some sort of introduction, right? Similarly, a how-to article begins with a brief introduction—what the problem or situation is and how your advice will help them create or do something better.

Then after introducing the day’s topic and its importance (and sometimes, even its background and history), you provide instructions to your students. It doesn’t matter if you’re teaching science, English, math, economics, physical education or Filipino. Almost always, you help your students learn by breaking down things into step by step procedures.

That’s how a how-to article also works: tell your readers how to do something, step by step. Write them down. Make sure that the instructions are arranged in chronological order so your readers will be able to follow. Write clearly. You don’t have to use academic or heavy words. The simpler the words are, the better. Remember that people who will read your how-to article will want simple, clear and easy-to-follow.

Write a how-to article and submit it to the local publications, such as parenting magazines, campus or learning sections of major dailies, and teacher websites. Not only will you be able to help others, but you’ll also earn some extra money too.

Here are some topic ideas:

Share your best practices.
Help your fellow teachers cope with the challenge of teaching your subject. If you found a great way to help your students learn, write it down and share it with other teachers. The more creative and fun it is, the better the students will learn.

Share your best practices – for the home.
Adapt your teaching strategies to the home environment. Share how parents can teach their own kids at home, using your fool-proof strategies. Simplify it so both parent and child will enjoy their study time together. Make it creative, interesting and fun. As a parent, imagine how you would want to approach the lessons.

Inspire future mentors.
Write an essay about why you got into teaching and your insights on the profession. Then as a sidebar, provide practical tips on how to become a better teacher (such as tools of the trade, characteristics of a good teacher, how to be an interesting teacher, and more). The profession is as diverse as the ideas you can turn into a how-to feature article.

Connect with other hobbyists.
Teachers are not just teachers.  Some are bakers, photographers, jewelry makers, online sellers, painters, and museum curators outside of their classrooms. Get to know other enthusiasts by sharing with them what you know. Meet them online or imagine them as readers of your how-to article when you submit to magazines and newspapers.

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Please visit designedbywords.wordpress.com to learn more about upcoming writing workshops and to read about tips and strategies in feature writing.

Jenny

Jenny Orillos is a freelance writer, editor, and writing coach. Her feature articles have been published in FOOD Magazine, Rogue, Experience Philippines, Homestyle, and other publications. She completed her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the De La Salle University.

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