Choosing an online course topic can be intimidating. Today I am sharing some simple tips and tricks to help you narrow and choose your online course topic. By using these tips, choosing a topic based on your passion for teaching will be easy, streamlined, and original.

It’s no secret that being a teacher is one of the hardest jobs in the world. You give everything to your students and have zero energy when you get home. The last thing a teacher wants to do after teaching all day is go work as an Uber driver or bartender all night. What if there was a way for you to use skills you already have to make ezra money and didn’t have to spend all your free time doing it? Well keep on reading because I’ve got 5 ways for teachers to make more money without extra work.

A few years ago my dad encouraged me to set up a bird feeder outside the window of my then kindergarten classroom. The window was ideal because it was at ground level and was easy to open. I agreed and he made a bird feeder for me with a platform that would be easy to feed the birds as well as observe them. I quickly learned my kindergartners were crazy about bird watching!

As teachers, we’ve been bombarded with the term teacher burnout. With so many teachers fleeing the profession all together, it leaves those of us who are staying with a feeling of overwhelm. The last thing we want to hear an administrator say is “Practice self-care.” Self-care for teachers looks different for each individual. My goal with this blog post is to share what has worked for me.

Tutoring allowed me to work 1-1 with kids and feel like a real teacher again, you know the kind of teacher who is appreciated? As I head back to school in a week, I plan to continue to tutor on my own terms. For me, that looks like a smaller client list and tutoring either from home or tutoring online.

Every successful entrepreneur I read about, reads books. Lots of books! Those same entrepreneurs channel their years of knowledge into writing books of their own. Many of these books helped me overcome teacher burnout and realize that I could become a successful online entrepreneur while still in the classroom. While in the grips of teacher burnout, I found a few business podcasts that changed my life. You see, I was driving to school everyday with tears in my eyes dreading the day ahead of me. I’d just changed schools and my teaching life had been flipped upside down.

If you were a teacher in 2020, I’m saluting you right now. Back in March when we all thought this was going to be temporary, we set off to teaching virtually from our homes. There was no virtual teacher kit sent home with us. Our tools for online teaching consisted of things we could grab from our classrooms and spending our teaching salaries buying what we lacked at home.

When I first started my tutoring business, I had no idea what I was doing. Can you relate? It seemed like I could find bits and pieces of information on YouTube or blogs but nothing strung together to make sense of. I want you to come to this blog as a place of solace and find the information you need. I’ve compiled a list of 7 secrets to my own tutoring business and I’m sharing them with you!

As teachers, it’s easy to get lost in the comparison game. There are so many perfectly curated “Pinterest Classrooms.” It’s enough to make you feel bad about yourself. I was recently talking to another tutor and she asked me “How do you juggle tutoring prep with everything else?” I was humbled that she feels like I handle it all well. There are definitely days where I feel like I am flying by the seat of my pants. Her question had me reflect on how I am balancing life, work, and a tutoring business. Teaching first grade full-time definitely consumes most of my day. My free time is left to family, responsibilities and tutoring.

There are two types of teachers…..

The teacher who is pumped to teach online AND the teacher who is not so pumped to teach online.

One isn’t better than the other.

I understand both teachers because I used to be the teacher who was scared to teach online.