Millionaire teachers: a lucrative online marketplace for lesson plans
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#2I don't see the downside here. Being able to sell lesson plans would be a nice little bonus to often underpaid teachers. It would have the upside of having teachers put in a little more work in developing their lesson plans if they think they can sell them. Other teachers would be able to benefit greatly from purchasing other lesson plans and saving time and effort.
I don't think it would harm the "traditional collaborative atmosphere of schools". Creating an exchange, even with the option of payment would just improve it
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#3Glad teachers are finding a way to make some additional money especially given how much time they spend on lesson plans. The licensing aspect seems interesting and potentially problematic, but I don't see why the school districts couldn't get into this too and do some sort of revenue share with the teachers (ignoring the bureaucracy of actually setting it up). A more "open source" version of this would be nice too but then you get into the same kinds of funding issues that open source projects have. Seems like it would be good to have teachers contributing back improvements though too. Does anybody know of anything like this?
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#4>Some legal experts argue that the resources teachers produce while working for a school district may actually be the property of the school district.
I think as this industry grows, this becomes a huge issue for retention. Some teachers may decide to leave the profession and produce content full time if they can make more money (which isn't hard in some states).
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#5Andrew at Mixergy did an awesome podcast on a similar site just recently. I highly recommend listening to it, the co-founders are incredible.
https://mixergy.com/interviews/flipped-lifestyle-with-shane-...
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#6I don't see the downside here. Being able to sell lesson plans would be a nice little bonus to often underpaid teachers. It would have the upside of having teachers put in a little more work in developing their lesson plans if they think they can sell them. Other teachers would be able to benefit greatly from purchasing other lesson plans and saving time and effort. I don't think it would harm the "traditional collab…
>I don't see the downside here.
The new thing here isn't lesson plans for sale, it's a marketplace with small vendors. So this isn't a new downside, but sponsored content is a continual worry.
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#7I'll be curmudgeonly ... can someone open-source lesson plans so the community could work to improve them and they would be free? Teachers shouldn't have to be paying out of pocket for this stuff.
Or does such a thing exist?
I guess I'm torn: I like that teachers are seeing compensation by selling their lesson plans, hate that other teachers have to pay.
(I'm personally working on a site to eventually provide free primers to elementary school age children.)
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#8I'll be curmudgeonly ... can someone open-source lesson plans so the community could work to improve them and they would be free? Teachers shouldn't have to be paying out of pocket for this stuff. Or does such a thing exist? I guess I'm torn: I like that teachers are seeing compensation by selling their lesson plans, hate that other teachers have to pay. (I'm personally working on a site to eventually provide free pr…
Ideally we'd abandon this weird psuedo-capitalist idea of education and just convince our government that education is the best investment a country can make.
An educated populace will devise better defense technologies and strategies. An educated populace will create more efficient means of production. An educated populace will strategize better trade deals. An educated populace will create more cultural icons that attract foreign tourists.
In other words, yes, open-source the lesson plans, and increase the education budget by 500%.
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#9I say great for the teachers who found a way to make some well deserved extra money for all of their hard work.
The thing that makes no sense is the need for it in the first place. The constant changing of books for the curriculum forces everyone to reinvent the wheel for their lesson plans. So much wasted time and energy that the teachers could be spending actually helping children and being more satisfied. This isn't cutting edge ML research at MIT, it is helping 3rd graders learn about planets, etc.
Why isn't this done at the state level Department of Education? Here is the playbook, follow it and add/adjust as you need to based on your students. Huge time and money savings for all. This is easy to solve with some political will and give-a-shit.
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#10This is great. I love to see this kind of news. Good teachers are very expensive and there's a of schools that prefers to have mediocre ones and capitalize their earnings.
I'm doing 4 to 6 online courses per year I think it's a great way to spend my money. And I always have the same teachers with me