The entrepreneurial educator
Build a portfolio.
Promote your work.
Educators: Low salaries from educational institutions do not have to mean low income for educators. There are many online opportunities for additional income related to teaching and supporting learning.
The Empty Classroom
Professional educator?
- Are you a professional?
- Do you have a career portfolio?
- University profs had career portfolios way back when I was a prof.
- We didn't call them portfolios: we called them vitas.
- And some pretended a vita was not a way to promote yourself as a professional.
- Except when they sought a promotion or a new job.
- Why You (Yes, You) Need a Professional Portfolio
- Professional portfolio (Google search)
- 5 Key Elements of an EdTech Portfolio for Educators
Entrepreneur
- Entrepreneur (Wikipedia)
- The key concept of entrepreneur is starting your own business.
- You don't have to quit your day job.
- Your business can be entirely on the web.
- And on your free time.
- Many educators have a whole summer of free time.
- Sell your educational products online
- Sell your education skills online
- Part-time online teaching jobs
What entrepreneurial educators do
- Build and publicize your skills
- Look for ways to market your skills.
Build and publicize your skills
Skills an entrepreneur needs
- Using the internet for small business
- How small businesses and entrepreneurs use the internet
- Skills of an entrepreneur
Educator skills (current view)
Educator resources
- Educator resources
- Quizlet (example)
Develop your online network
Make your skills visible--and accessible
- Create your own blog about you favorite teaching activities.
- Blogging for beginners. And a demo of blogging for instruction
- Your blog is a good way of showing what you can do.
- Promote your blog to your online network,
Look for ways to market your skills
- Online teaching jobs (Google search)
- LinkedIn: Search top Jobs | Find people who are hiring
- Sell your educational products online
- Sell your education skills online
- Part-time online teaching jobs
Portfolios
Career portfolios are used to plan, organize and document education, work samples and skills. People use career portfolios to apply for jobs, apply to college or training programs. They are more in-depth than a resume, which is used to summarize the above in one or two pages. Career portfolios serve as proof of one's skills, abilities, and potential in the future. Career portfolios are becoming common in high schools, college, and workforce development.[citation needed]
Career portfolios help with a job or acceptance into higher education institutes. A career portfolio should be personal and contain critical information. Items that should be included include (but are not limited to) personal information, evaluations, sample work, a business portrait, and awards and acknowledgments. Career portfolios are often kept in a simple three-ring binder or online as an electronic portfolio and updated often. A career portfolio is used as a marketing tool in selling oneself for personal advancement. In some industries, employers or admission offices commonly request a career portfolio, so it is a wise idea to have an updated one on hand.
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Visit me on the web
- Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)
- Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
- I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
- Don't register -- enter as guest.
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- Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)
- Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
- I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
- Don't register -- enter as guest.
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