Comments on: Transitioning To A Teaching Career And Making Ends Meet http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/transitioning-to-a-teaching-career-and-making-ends-meet/ Providing HOPE for educators since 2007 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:07:56 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Cory http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/transitioning-to-a-teaching-career-and-making-ends-meet/#comment-5918 Cory Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:27:08 +0000 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/?p=1840#comment-5918 Private businesses like Huntington Learning and Sylvan allow for a few extra hours a week at $10/hr +. Teachers recycle EVERYTHING: cans, paper, old books, forgotten pens & pencils & crayons, decorations, etc. If you can't absolutely find another use for it, maybe you can throw it away! Donate plasma - up to $55+/wk. Participate in research studies at universities - up to several hundred $$ a month depending on the type. Pet sitting/house sitting for friends/neighbors. Pick up every loose change you find. I read an article about one family that found $1000 over a year by going to parking lots, drive thru windows, searching couchs/cars/old purses/pockets. Private businesses like Huntington Learning and Sylvan allow for a few extra hours a week at $10/hr +.

Teachers recycle EVERYTHING: cans, paper, old books, forgotten pens & pencils & crayons, decorations, etc. If you can’t absolutely find another use for it, maybe you can throw it away!

Donate plasma – up to $55+/wk.

Participate in research studies at universities – up to several hundred $$ a month depending on the type.

Pet sitting/house sitting for friends/neighbors.

Pick up every loose change you find. I read an article about one family that found $1000 over a year by going to parking lots, drive thru windows, searching couchs/cars/old purses/pockets.

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]]> By: Val http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/transitioning-to-a-teaching-career-and-making-ends-meet/#comment-5888 Val Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:41:35 +0000 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/?p=1840#comment-5888 Yes indeed; no tutoring allowed. I'm guessing from your reaction this is not the norm? Hmmmm, food for thought... Yes indeed; no tutoring allowed. I’m guessing from your reaction this is not the norm? Hmmmm, food for thought…

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]]> By: Joel http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/transitioning-to-a-teaching-career-and-making-ends-meet/#comment-5887 Joel Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:10:39 +0000 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/?p=1840#comment-5887 I remember a couple of years ago that I signed up for detention on Fridays. It was half an hour, but I ended up getting like $9.50 for each day that I did it. The reasoning behind doing it was that I got out of cafeteria duty on Wednesday afternoons by doing detention on Friday. I was also able to use those Friday afternoons to read my personally signed copy of Learn Me Good. Great fun, I had! I remember a couple of years ago that I signed up for detention on Fridays. It was half an hour, but I ended up getting like $9.50 for each day that I did it. The reasoning behind doing it was that I got out of cafeteria duty on Wednesday afternoons by doing detention on Friday.

I was also able to use those Friday afternoons to read my personally signed copy of Learn Me Good. Great fun, I had!

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]]> By: mister teacher http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/transitioning-to-a-teaching-career-and-making-ends-meet/#comment-5886 mister teacher Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:07:25 +0000 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/?p=1840#comment-5886 In Dallas, before and after school functions net you twenty bucks an hour. Of course, you don't always have control over when those opportunities arise, and they are not always ongoing throughout the year. But when we DO tutor after school or on Saturdays, it's $20/hour. And at my school, we have the option of signing up for before-school monitoring (thus my cross walk job). That is an everyday stipend. Your writer should also be thinking about behavior and classroom management, because they are going to be like nothing that he/she has encountered teaching martial arts or at the church. Maybe he/she would enjoy the unique corporate-world-to-education story of Learn Me Good? ;) In Dallas, before and after school functions net you twenty bucks an hour. Of course, you don’t always have control over when those opportunities arise, and they are not always ongoing throughout the year. But when we DO tutor after school or on Saturdays, it’s $20/hour. And at my school, we have the option of signing up for before-school monitoring (thus my cross walk job). That is an everyday stipend.
Your writer should also be thinking about behavior and classroom management, because they are going to be like nothing that he/she has encountered teaching martial arts or at the church.
Maybe he/she would enjoy the unique corporate-world-to-education story of Learn Me Good? ;)

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]]> By: Joel http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/transitioning-to-a-teaching-career-and-making-ends-meet/#comment-5878 Joel Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:41:13 +0000 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/?p=1840#comment-5878 Seriously? Even if they are from a different school and/or different district entirely? Seriously? Even if they are from a different school and/or different district entirely?

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]]> By: Val http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/transitioning-to-a-teaching-career-and-making-ends-meet/#comment-5877 Val Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:43:03 +0000 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/?p=1840#comment-5877 This is my second year of teaching, and I taught several after school sessions, as well as summer school. Combined these programs upped my salary nearly 10% this year. However, I did neither of these last year, simply because my first year of teaching was so overwhelming. I didn't have the time or energy! Also, another thought, my school contract prohibits me from tutoring outside of my contract, so be careful in that regard. This is my second year of teaching, and I taught several after school sessions, as well as summer school. Combined these programs upped my salary nearly 10% this year.

However, I did neither of these last year, simply because my first year of teaching was so overwhelming. I didn’t have the time or energy!

Also, another thought, my school contract prohibits me from tutoring outside of my contract, so be careful in that regard.

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]]> By: Margaret http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/transitioning-to-a-teaching-career-and-making-ends-meet/#comment-5875 Margaret Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:11:45 +0000 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/?p=1840#comment-5875 Another extra-income possibility is working in the before & after school childcare programs. They vary WIDELY by district. Some pay a pittance because they charge a pittance to the parents. (and are just babysitting) Others are wonderful programs that provide tutoring & awesome enrichment activities after school and pay double digits to certified staffers. The ones in my region that do this are funded by grants (watch out for funding expiration) and are free to the parents. Grant-funded programs may also have a "season" due to funding and not run the same length as the school year. Another extra-income possibility is working in the before & after school childcare programs. They vary WIDELY by district. Some pay a pittance because they charge a pittance to the parents. (and are just babysitting) Others are wonderful programs that provide tutoring & awesome enrichment activities after school and pay double digits to certified staffers. The ones in my region that do this are funded by grants (watch out for funding expiration) and are free to the parents. Grant-funded programs may also have a “season” due to funding and not run the same length as the school year.

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