Category — Teaching as a Business

I have become very interested in the teaching circuit lately. I wrote a post about it before and I have seen just how successful it is. I am interested if anyone has decided to take off with it? It’s really an idea that could be applied to any skill that can taught.

It’s also a chance to visit and travel, but make a steady income wherever you go. Just make contacts with people in every city you plan on visiting. Give them a website about your seminars and then get them to set up dates. You could do a percentage split with the host.

There is a new way to increase your income, travel the world, and still be involved in teaching. I call it the Teaching Seminar Circuit. It’s not like a regular teaching job that ties you down to one school. Instead it is a way to impart your knowledge to an even wider area.

What exactly is the Teaching Seminar Circuit? People always want to learn a new skill or be presented with new ideas. This is where the TSC comes in.

Evaluate your skills and find an area in which you can offer valuable skills. Next, design a seminar course around what you have to offer. The best seminars are usually one to two days so keep that in mind while you are designing your seminar. Once you have a seminar ready, you should practice giving it once or twice to friends and getting solid feedback.

Now you are ready to begin marketing it, but that is for a longer post that I will be making on Get Pesos.

I don’t really publicize it as much as I should, but slowly but surely Great TEFL Jobs, a site I started up last year, is starting to make inroads in the TEFL jobs market. It’s beginning to get solid visitor numbers and it is starting to get job comments.

See, Great TEFL Jobs has a special premise. It allows people to comment on the TEFL jobs advertised. When people are able to leave comments about a job, they feel like they have a way to help other job seekers. For job seekers, they have a chance to get the straight dope before they take on a job.

I would say that the site is a success and with the planned changes that are coming on the site, it should get even better.

I am doing a lot of looking into the 4 hour work week. The basic premise is that you work a 4 hour week by outsourcing as many parts of your life as possible. You focus on doing the highly productive things that pay the most and you outsource the tedious tasks.

The goal is to do even more of the highly productive work and reduce the unproductive work to nothing. People doing this have reported a huge jump in income and an equal jump in the enjoyment they are getting out of life. I wonder if it would make my life easier?

I frequently hear students and teachers complain about the high cost of legitimate software. It bothers me because they are unaware of the significant discounts they can get from software companies by taking advantage of educational pricing. That’s right, you can get significant savings on full versions of Microsoft Office 2007,Corel, Adobe and a lot of other software.

Software companies understand that students and teachers need access to affordable software so they make full versions of their software available at educational prices. In fact, when my last school outfitted the school lab with new computers, they took advantage of educational pricing to outfit it at a significant discount.

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