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My advice is don't participate in the broken educational institutions. Take up a job somewhere else, and teach the way Salman Khan of Khan Academy started teac
by TheMagicHorsey 12y ago
My advice is don't participate in the broken educational institutions.
Take up a job somewhere else, and teach the way Salman Khan of Khan Academy started teaching. Just start teaching on YouTube and helping students on Skype. Your paid job should sustain you.
Using your skills, you should be able to get a 9-5 job somewhere that pays you better than what you are getting paid now, which should leave 15-20 hours for your teaching side project.
I started teaching programming to a few people in this way, while I was employed in another (non-programming) profession.
Teaching is more rewarding when you don't have to follow someone else's rules and curriculum.
- zdw 12y agoAnd what if you're teaching something that, when done improperly, could be actively dangerous in the teaching process? Many of the sciences are like that - biology and chemistry experiments gone wrong, etc.. Or what if equipment required to perform the teaching is extremely expensive, like lab equipment, telescopes, etc. While the DIY approach is nice if you're doing something that doesn't have many unique/expensive prerequisites (beyond internet access and a computer), there's a whole lot of stuff out there that needs real hands on instruction using expensive gear.