Here's how I sell educational printables to teachers, homeschool parents, and party planners. How to sell teaching resources online and make money selling teaching resources.
How can you build effective lessons and feel in control of the class? Lesson plans are essential to planning and ultimately giving great ESL lessons. But isn’t making lesson plans long and arduous?
Wondering how to profit from your artistic skills? Take a look at this guide on how to get paid to color and tun your passion into profit.
Tick-tock, it's time for fun learning! Dive into engaging ways to make teaching time a blast for your students!
Learn how to make a bouncy ball using 3 simple ingredients! These DIY bouncy balls are SO COOL! It's such a great craft that also doubles as a science experiment! Kids and adults can make a homemade bouncy ball toy in just a few minutes. They're so easy to make and a whole lot of fun to play with! This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something we may earn a small commission which helps us run this website. How to Make a Bouncy Ball Learn how to make a bouncy ball in less than
Everything you need to start teaching STEM in your classroom. In this blog you will be given practical ways so you can start to teach STEM immediately.
Here's how I sell educational printables to teachers, homeschool parents, and party planners. How to sell teaching resources online and make money selling teaching resources.
Learn how to make a bouncy ball using 3 simple ingredients! These DIY bouncy balls are SO COOL! It's such a great craft that also doubles as a science experiment! Kids and adults can make a homemade bouncy ball toy in just a few minutes. They're so easy to make and a whole lot of fun to play with! This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something we may earn a small commission which helps us run this website. How to Make a Bouncy Ball Learn how to make a bouncy ball in less than
Create a love for computer programming with this collection of 17 super fun coding activities for kids in elementary and middle school!
How can you build effective lessons and feel in control of the class? Lesson plans are essential to planning and ultimately giving great ESL lessons. But isn’t making lesson plans long and arduous?
Want to help your kids develop leadership skills? Here’s a list of leadership activities for kids that I hope will inspire you!
Learn how to make a pom pom shooter. This fun craft doubles as a STEM activity for kids. Kids will love learning physics with this fun toy.
Lots of EPIC Simple Machine Projects for students to make using things around the house! Learn about simple machines for kids!
Here's how I sell educational printables to teachers, homeschool parents, and party planners. How to sell teaching resources online and make money selling teaching resources.
Learn how to make video tutorials for students using Screencastify to build autonomy, differentiate instruction, and increase effectiveness of lessons.
I’ve had numerous people ask me recently to teach them how to make worksheets for their classroom and products for TeachersPayTeachers. Being a visual learner myself, I decided to lay it out step-by-s
Practical tips and tricks to Teaching Kids to Sew. It isn't as hard as it sounds and kids will love to learn to sew with these great teaching kids to sew
When you walk into an interview for a teaching job, you want to feel confident in your skills but also your ability to show them off! In some careers, a resume’ listing experience might be enough, but in teaching, I think it’s a huge boon to go into an interview with a portfolio that really shows the details of that “elementary teacher” position you’ve had (or student teaching). It’s been awhile since I added my On The Hunt for a Teaching Job series, but I know seeing others’ portfolios really helped me (especially as a new teacher!) so I want to share mine. For my portfolio, I picked up a professional binder. Yes, it’s expensive, but you want the cover to say, “I’m credible and you need to look at me!” I used a pre-made Word template to make a cover page and added a photo of me with my class as well as my contact information. In the pocket, I include a resume, and the inside has a matching cover page that works sort of like an informal cover letter. I started with my favorite teaching quote, and used it as a springboard to describe my passion for teaching. I didn’t rehash my resume’ here- but instead wanted to get them interested in me. (Note: Please feel free to use something similar, but please DON’T copy exactly what I wrote. You want it to be unique to YOU!) Another option is to make a brochure. This is really great to leave after an interview, especially if it has a picture so they remember which face goes with which name! Inside, I use dividers to make it clear where I can find certain things. Notice that I said “I can find,” not “the administrator can find.” Administrators may never ask to see your portfolio or have time to do much with it, but if you happen to be in for an interview, a portfolio can be SO helpful! You can see my dividers here, now that I have a few years of experience: Here, you can see my dividers before my last update, when I hadn’t taught in my own classroom. In the past, I just stuck in pages of things I’d done. Most were printed out worksheets, assessments, parent notes, etc. And that was okay, but this time around I decided to show a little more. One HUGE benefit of blogging is that I take lots more pictures of the things going on in my classroom. So, for instance, when I wanted to show my creative lessons, ta – da! I wanted to showcase classroom management, and again, I already had the photos. It’s a great way to not just tell what I would do, but show it. I want principals to be able to imagine me and my classroom in their school! I still kept examples of work and other things behind each section, but these pages made it look really polished. Even if you’re not going to post them on a blog, I’d recommend finding a cheap point-and-shoot camera (or even a smartphone, if you have one) to take photos of your classroom and projects you do. It really helps when a principal wants to imagine you not in a suit, sitting in the office, but in classroom working with students. What’s really great about these pages is that you can print another copy (or go to FedEx Office for more color copies if you just have way too much money) and leave a mini-portfolio at schools without having to leave your nice binder. I used these mini-portfolios when I dropped off resume’s in person, too! When you consider what to include, make sure you think about the basics (classroom management, reading, math, engaging instruction, differentiation, assessment and data, organization), but don’t forget to include a section with your credentials and any honors/ certificates/ professional development/ licenses you may have! (Page protectors will keep you from having to hole punch those important papers.) Think about what makes you unique as a teacher. When they say, “What are your strengths?,” what will you show them? Don’t be afraid to make it unique and bright! For some other professions, you might not want to add color or any element of cute, but I think as long as it looks professional, colorful works really well for standing out. If you’re new here, be sure you check out the rest of this series and my new teacher tips! Next in the On The Hunt series: How to Stand Out (Even Before a Teaching Interview) Thanks for visiting!
When done well, co-teaching offers benefits for both students and teachers. When not done well, it can be confusing or downright frustrating for all involved.
Here at Hess UnAcademy, we believe that teaching kids how to type is important which is why we've gathered a list of the best fun and free typing games for kids and are sharing that list with you!
Learn how to make a simple Newton's Cradle, the classic science project demonstrating momentum!
Create a love for computer programming with this collection of 17 super fun coding activities for kids in elementary and middle school!
If you’re on a quest for information where do you tend to start? Google right? But what if you want to learn something new, but still not too sure what? And how do you find those clever and useful study tools, if you don’t know that they exist? To make things a little bit easier […]
Every elementary teacher has to teach spelling, but how do you make it FUN?! I'm sharing how to use spelling choice menus to make spelling fun for kids.
Decisions. Decisions. Decisions. How do we simplify? How do we make better, more objective, and more informed decisions? How do we teach our children to make better decisions? How about applying a visual approach designed for business to life and school? It's called the 6 Thinking Hats Approach
Freebie! One of the keys to teaching reading comprehension is showing kids how proficient readers think about text. Teachers have to find a way to make their thinking visible. One way is with graphic organizers.
Are you or your students having trouble memorizing? Try the whole method to easily memorize passages! Your students will benefit from this memorization technique no matter what they are trying to memorize!
Are you wondering "How can I teach English online?" This post has info from others who are doing this, why they love it, & how you can teach English online, too!
I love grammar. But convincing my students to love grammar sometimes feels like trying to convince a bobcat to enjoy a nice, relaxing ice bath.
With schools looking at the hybrid model for the fall, the flipped classroom is going to be pivotal for student learning. Learn more about it here.
Do you remember how to make a paper cup phone? Does yarn work for cup phones? Teach your child how to make a string phone with cups and test how far it works.
Do you like to teach? Do you want to or need to make more money? Consider starting a tutoring side hustle. Here's 5 steps to start a tutoring side hustle.
Make worksheets using programs you probably already have! These 6 steps will get you started creating your own resources today!
Do you want to learn how to become a tutor? Here is how Trevor earned $90,000 in one year working part-time in his tutoring business!
Frustrated with teaching your child to read an analog clock? Ready to throw in the towel and embrace the digital age instead? Find out why most math curriculums teach telling time BACKWARDS! And one crucial tip to making it much easier for your kid to learn to read an analog clock!
How to use the TPR teaching method in the classroom. Educational and instructional TPR helps students understand what the teacher is saying.
What is explicit teaching and how to do you use this teaching method in the classroom so that it is an effective method? Check out this blog post where I walk you through everything you need to know to help you make explicit teaching successful in your classroom!
Check out this fun DIY Lung Model Activity for Kids: Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Fun Learning Experience.
Assessments should tell us exactly what our students do and don't understand. Here's an easy, no-tech system to precisely pinpoint that information.
Want to know how to make money in education from home? Discover 9 of the best options for teachers that will allow you to make extra cash.
Learn how to make your own math worksheets in 5 easy steps! You can use programs you probably already have on your computer...
Trying to find a fun method to teach vocabulary for kids? How can you teach ESL vocabulary to kids? Read on for a fun English vocabulary activity you'll love...
Teachers are humans. They are not infallible. They make mistakes. Even the best teachers. And they learn from their mistakes and become better educators. So before I share the mistakes that I think many teachers make, I want to preface by saying that teaching is one of the toughest jobs on the planet. I have
Let's dive into some new options to teach vocabulary, for those who have the time and energy to pursue them. In this post and podcast, I'm sharing ten ideas for making the study of vocabulary something students might even look forward to.
Make a simple hoop glider paper plane and use it to do some fun, hands-on, science experiments!
How to make an indoor boomerang out of paper. What a fun boredom buster science and engineering project for kids when they are stuck inside!
How can you build effective lessons and feel in control of the class? Lesson plans are essential to planning and ultimately giving great ESL lessons. But isn’t making lesson plans long and arduous?
