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Is there a market for your lessons?

Posted by Slim on 04-06-2007 at 9:50 AM

We have all developed original lessons to improve on the materials districts provide and enhance student learning. I just came across an article in Teacher Magazine where an entrepreneur, former teacher is making money buying and selling original lessons. He has developed Teachers Pay Teachers at www.teacherspayteachers.com. This may be something to ponder during Easter vacation. The article about it is below.

A Lesson Earned

By Aaron Dalton

There’s a venerable legend about inventing the high-tech world’s Next Big Thing: All you need is to do is disappear into your garage with a computer and a really terrific idea, and what you come out with may change the world. Scaled down to the teaching world, and allowing for a few variations in time and place—it’s not the late 1970s, and New York City has few garages of the type Microsoft founder Bill Gates or Apple co-creator Steve Jobs did their fiddling in—that’s what former teacher Paul Edelman has in mind with teacherspayteachers.com.

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