The Freelance Educator
Practical Advice for Starting your Educational Consulting Business
Tinashe Blanchet
- 110 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Freelance Educator
Practical Advice for Starting your Educational Consulting Business
Tinashe Blanchet
About This Book
The Freelance Educator is the definitive resource for K-12 teachers who are ready to utilize their skills outside of the classroom and embark on a fast-paced, highly rewarding entrepreneurial journey.
Author Tinashe Blanchet, who has launched and managed two educational businesses, provides all the details you need to get started as an independent educational consultant. She uses a blend of her own experience, thorough research, and interviews with over 40 freelance educators to provide you with step-by-step advice. Topics covered include making the transition, finding your vision, establishing a legitimate business, branding and marketing, communicating with clients, making and managing your money, and growing your business. Each chapter is filled with interactive features to help you pause, reflect, and apply what you are learning.
With the helpful suggestions in this book, you'll be able to launch your new career, helping schools improve student outcomes, traveling around the world, meeting new people, and learning all along the way!
Frequently asked questions
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1 Beginning With Your WHY
An educational consultant is a professional with training and relevant degrees who offers feedback and suggestions to other education professionals like teachers and administrators, as well as parents and children. As an educational consultant, you will work to become an expert in your field and then use that expertise to assist others in the field with improving their performance as educators. You may work with K-12 schools or universities or the students attending those schools, depending on your area of expertise. Many educational consultants have a background as a teacher or other educational professional.(Indeed Editorial Team, 2021)
Educational consultants do many things. They advise K-12 school districts on how to integrate technology into the classroom. They design and manage higher education and professional development programs for K-12 teachers at universities and colleges, [a]nd they help companies design products for teachers.(2015)
Do Now: Begin With Your WHY
WHY Am I Doing This?
Check for Understanding: Quitting Your Job Is Not a Good WHY!
- I help people and organizations create, build, and expand high quality early learning environments for young children. I specialize in professional development, organizational administration, and leadership development. – Eboni Walker, Learning Matters LLC
- Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP, knows how to bridge the organizational learning gap. Susan provides unique solutions that transform performance by teaching people how they learn. She helps leaders understand how to motivate and engage their employees.
- Educator Alexander Consulting, LLC empowers educators to actualize becoming innovators and leaders.
- Positive, proactive solutions for working with challenging behaviors: I work with educators of all grade levels, parents, legal professionals, and businesses. – Kathryn Phillips, Total Behavior Management