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    Classroom Escape: How to Create a Better Working Life, Using the Skills you Already have
    Classroom Escape: How to Create a Better Working Life, Using the Skills you Already have
    Classroom Escape: How to Create a Better Working Life, Using the Skills you Already have
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    Classroom Escape: How to Create a Better Working Life, Using the Skills you Already have

    By James Anthony

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    Worried you won't be able to work in your classroom until the age of 67?

    You don't have to!

    The Information Revolution has transformed the opportunities available for educators today. And as a classroom teacher, you are MUCH better prepared to take advantage of these changes than you think.

    Classroom Escape creates a blueprint for a more balanced life - where you use your existing skills to earn more, work under far less pressure - and keep the 'buzz' of teaching you love.

    So, when you win back the time you currently spend in school - what will you do with it?

    - Maybe you'll spend more time with family or friends?

    - Perhaps you will decide to live elsewhere, or work from the beach?

    - Or maybe you dream of having a worldwide impact, far beyond that possible in your own classroom?

    Online Teachers can do all these things – and it starts with a simple Passion Project, which you run alongside your current job.

    Download Classroom Escape today and you will get:

    A step-by-step guide to using your existing classroom skills to earn more, while working less.

    A workbook that creates your own personalized blueprint for a lifestyle you will love.

    Clarity over exactly what you should be Teaching Online - delivered by 2 powerful audio training units.

    3 simple questions to test your Passion Project ideas against – so you can be sure that you're starting in EXACTLY the right place.

    The chance to join a community of teachers creating a better lifestyle.

    This book is full to the brim with action you can take now, to create a life you will love - using the skills you already have ..

    What have you got to lose?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Anthony
    Release dateJul 18, 2018
    ISBN9781386420002
    Classroom Escape: How to Create a Better Working Life, Using the Skills you Already have

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      Classroom Escape - James Anthony

      CLASSROOM ESCAPE

      by James Anthony

      "The Opportunities You Have Available Today,

      Are Greater Than Ever Before"

      I often used to say this to my students.

      It took me a while to realise that this applied to me too.

      © Copyright 2018 James Anthony

      The right of James Anthony to be identified as the author of the Work has been asserted him in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or otherwise, without written permission from the author.

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE ESCAPE KIT

      IN 1991 TECHNOLOGY CHANGED LEARNING, FOREVER

      WHAT YOU DO - IS AMAZING!

      WHAT IS AN ONLINE TEACHER?

      THE BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH ONLINE TEACHING TODAY

      THE 5 TRUTHS OF EFFECTIVE ONLINE TEACHING

      YOUR ISLAND IN THE SUN

      WHAT DO YOU WANT TO TEACH ONLINE?

      LAND THE PLANE …

      HOW TO COMMERCIALLY TEST YOUR IDEAS

      QUESTION 1: MOTIVATION

      QUESTION 2: TRANSFORMATION

      QUESTION 3: COMPETITION

      7 WAYS TO FIND YOUR SUB-GROUP IN A WIDER MARKET ..

      YOUR PASSION PROJECT BLUEPRINT

      LOOK AT HOW FAR YOU'VE COME!

      THE BIGGEST QUESTIONS I AM ASKED ..

      NEXT STEPS

      INTRODUCTION

      My name is James Anthony, and I have something life-changing to share with you. 

      But before we go any further, I must warn you .. you are about to think I am the Staffroom Grinch!

      You’ve met him or her, I’m sure - they complain about everything from the behavior and attitude of their students, to the food in the canteen .. and they do it every day!

      I assure you - I’m not the Grinch .. I am actually a good teacher, and I enjoy my job - I just don’t like what it is doing to me.

      I have a 3-year-old daughter, who gets ‘what’s left of me’ after work most weekday evenings.

      Her daddy is often exhausted, emotionally drained from dealing with disaffected students - and has very little left.

      Don’t get me wrong, I am a proud dad to her - but I know that in significant ways, she is coming second to my job.

      Because to be effective where I teach, I have to give everything.  I go in early and stay late, and I bring marking and planning home.

      It feels tragically ironic that I spend most days being a caring father figure to my students - but then have so little time or energy left for my own.

      I didn’t join the profession to feel like this.

      In the year 2000 I was employed in a sales job, earning $80k a year. I was a ‘success’.

      I got paid better commission if customers spent more on the equipment we sold - and the culture in my office was intensely selfish as a result.  Everyone was out for what they could get.

      I was successful in the job because my customers realised I wasn’t like that – but working with people I had very little respect for, wasn’t enjoyable ..

      .. it felt like I was slowly becoming one of them.

      So I resigned and retrained as a teacher.

      It was one of best decisions I have ever made and although I more than halved my salary, my heart immediately knew it was right.

      I loved the rough and tumble of being a teacher ..

      The daily interaction with students brimming with character and imagination, planning experiences to surprise and delight them .. and the incredible feeling of achievement when they recognised their own progress.

      It was the perfect job for a single 20-something with a love of learning and energy to burn.

      So why isn’t it perfect now?

      It’s not just my life that has changed - the job has too.   Because teaching students isn’t all we do ..

      To get the buzz of teaching a student to love learning, I need to wade through a daily pile of unnecessary paperwork, and adhere to a range of policies I don’t agree with.

      Management processes seem designed to eat my time, and we spend meetings focusing on government regulations, the requirements of inspectors, and the latest initiative - rather than the students who need our help.

      An imaginative curriculum has been stifled by politicians who expect each child to have an experience which would not look out of place in the last century.

      And as a result I can’t teach many of my students to love learning - or make what I teach them relevant to their lives.

      I am held responsible for the books of over 200 students, and I take more

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