What stops lesson planning being done at a higher level than per-teacher? That's obviously how it is happens now making TPT a great resource but why are schools/states/federal bodies not providing the lesson plans that are needed instead of making each teacher do something unique?
How a Teacher Made $1 Million Selling Lesson Plans
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#22What stops lesson planning being done at a higher level than per-teacher? That's obviously how it is happens now making TPT a great resource but why are schools/states/federal bodies not providing the lesson plans that are needed instead of making each teacher do something unique?
Some schools/districts do that. It turns out though, that many teachers want to control their own classroom and do their own plan. One of the gripes my fiance had while student teaching and then subbing was that she wasn't in control of her lesson planning. One of the issues with the Chicago Public School strike was that the teachers weren't able to create their own lesson plans.
Standardizing the lesson plan eliminates (or greatly reduces) the ability for the teacher to be creative in their classroom and teaching. On top of that, a standardized lesson plan would also be hard to work around in case there were areas that took the students longer than expected.
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#23This seems like something that Patio11 could have (or still can) capitalize on.
It seems a natural progression from generating Bingo Cards, to branching out to lesson plans to facilitating the sale of user-generated lesson plans.
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#24This seems like something that Patio11 could have (or still can) capitalize on. It seems a natural progression from generating Bingo Cards, to branching out to lesson plans to facilitating the sale of user-generated lesson plans.
It might have worked. There's a few reasons why BCC works. The fact that I "get" teachers is one of them, but that's far from the most lucrative skill I developed. Having a list of ~50k teachers for a newsletter would help sell activities but, honestly, I think I'm sort of done with that market until I have school-aged kids.
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#25http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3989803 "Kindergarten Teacher Earns $700,000 by Selling Lesson Plans Online" May 2012
Not sure of the outcome, ( Marenem vs Jump was behind paywalls) but a company seemed to have sued.
http://www.macon.com/2012/06/12/2056692/north-carolina-compa...
Re: How a Teacher Made $1 Million Selling Lesson Plans
#26This seems like something that Patio11 could have (or still can) capitalize on. It seems a natural progression from generating Bingo Cards, to branching out to lesson plans to facilitating the sale of user-generated lesson plans.
It might have worked. There's a few reasons why BCC works. The fact that I "get" teachers is one of them, but that's far from the most lucrative skill I developed. Having a list of ~50k teachers for a newsletter would help sell activities but, honestly, I think I'm sort of done with that market until I have school-aged kids.
Well....always something to keep in your back pocket. You never know when you can come up with a way to leverage that list powerfully.