To grow as a teacher, teaching must become more than just a routine.

Day in and day out, it’s easy to get caught up in lessons, grading and schedules that you lose sight of the bigger possibilities within your reach.

To experience more fulfillment, make impact and grow as a teacher, you have to break free from the regular by intentionally Birthing your MORE.

The first step is to:

1. Leverage What You Teach

What do you teach and how can you create more from it?

Many teachers stick to full-time jobs and extra lessons, but in-person classes limit the number of students you can reach.

You might manage two or three families without stretching yourself too thin but is there something you can you do differently?

Definitely, you can start with what you teach and what you’re genuinely good at.

Then ask yourself how to turn it into an online program or course, one that is important to parents.

Parents pay attention when their children are falling behind or preparing for important exams.

If you teach maths, you can focus on Common Entrance students. If it’s chemistry or physics, tailor it to secondary school or international exams.

Create a product, sell it online and stop limiting yourself to a small classroom, with tools like Zoom and YouTube, you can teach at scale.

Other Ways to Monetize and Grow as a Teacher

I know someone in a primary school who was really good at decorating classrooms.

You know those charts and wall displays teachers put up at the start of the term? It came easily to her and her colleagues always admired how her class looked.

Eventually, she started doing the same thing for them and she charged for it. She made the charts and sold them to her colleagues.

Honestly, if it were me, I’d happily pay, put it on my wall and save myself the stress….so think about teaching aids, tools or lesson notes come easily to you.

How can you package them into bundles and sell them to other teachers who need them?

Branded Products Around School Events

Schools always have events and there’s almost always a themed or branded T-shirt involved.

This is an opportunity, you can create branded T-shirts around these themes and sell them directly within the school community.

To grow as a teacher, you should be able to recognise income opportunities tied to your profession and the environment you’re already in.

Most teachers are also mums, so think beyond the classroom. What do mums need?

Guess what, even simple things like food items or everyday essentials can be sold within that space and become an extra source of income.

Focus on System

There are so many things you could do to grow as a teacher, but its very beneficial to do something that you can remove yourself from, something that does not require day to day input from you, something with a system that sells it for you.

This is why the first option stands out. 

At the end of the day, Birthing your MORE requires using what you already do well, finding creative ways to share it and building systems that work for you.

When you do that, teaching stops being just a routine but a way to grow, earn and make a bigger impact.

Which of these options will you be going for?

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