Non-teaching jobs with coaching hours

I'd actually like to hear an answer to this as well.

Consultant.

Or, own your own business, then you can work any 80 hours per week you want.

Consultant, ah yes, the high-paying job alternative for all those who are abyssmal failures at teaching. The worst days of my teaching year are spent listening to educational consultants gas on about how great their ideas are. It slays me that school districts pay these people 10 to 20 times what a teacher gets paid and all they get is humbug.

One trouble with educational consulting--it does involve a lot of travel. Probably wouldn't fit well with a coaching job.

security guard on the midnight shift.

if you don't mind making $7.50 an hour.

10 to 20 times what a teacher makes? thats a bit of an exaggeration.

Not in my district it isn't. An educational consultant for a day has priced out at well over a thousand, all the more so when you figure their travel is covered as well.

In some sense, you have to charge a lot as an educational consultant. Who's going to hire someone who thinks they're only worth $300 for a day???

Of course, the real cost of an educational consultant brought in for an in-service day is what you're paying all of those teachers and administrators to sit there and fight off the snoozes.

Do some math ...

$60,000 / 190 or so days of work = $$315.78/ day.

$333.33 / 7 hours a day in the classroom = $45.11/ hour of work

You don't think those consultants speaking at in-service days aren't making between $500 and $1000.00 for the 60-90 minutes they are presenting? Of course they are and that is more than 10 times what the teacher is making for sitting there listening to their bullsh*t.

firemen, EMT,

Ya, i suppose that sounds right.

I would argue that they don't have that many in-service days so while they get paid more hourly, it is hard to think they are making 150k+ a year. If they are, sign me up.

If you have any of these skills, start your own web design/graphic design/video editing/photography business.

share a paper route with somebody

I am a teacher and I very very few are making 60k. You have to have taught for about 25 years and have a doctorate to be making that much where I am.

Is it teaching you don't like, or teaching at the level you were teaching? If the latter, try teaching college.

In my state only 10 of the 190 days are "in-service" days for teachers. The other 180 are actual teaching days. In-service days usually occur at the start of the year (2-3 days generally) with the remainder scheduled randomly throughout the year.

The consultants are usually working for other companies (e.g. companies selling educational software) or are selling books / other materials that may be a part of their contractual agreement to speak at the school. Others are big money earners that are booked almost daily - at least 2-3 times a week. I know we had a guy come and compare our school to a salad - some people are tomatoes, others are carrots, while others are lettuce, you get the point ... He did it for 30 minutes with the staff and 90 minutes with the kids - he was paid $2500 (this included his travel expenses - but he was driving from school to school and sleeping in hotels - so his expenses were minimal).

Agreed. These people are total idiots. America would be so much better if we did away with "educational experts", as well colleges of education in universities.

second that wrote:

Consultant, ah yes, the high-paying job alternative for all those who are abyssmal failures at teaching. The worst days of my teaching year are spent listening to educational consultants gas on about how great their ideas are. It slays me that school districts pay these people 10 to 20 times what a teacher gets paid and all they get is humbug.

One trouble with educational consulting--it does involve a lot of travel. Probably wouldn't fit well with a coaching job.

People in glass houses wrote:

Ya, i suppose that sounds right.

I would argue that they don't have that many in-service days so while they get paid more hourly, it is hard to think they are making 150k+ a year. If they are, sign me up.

Sorry, but you just failed the first test of becoming an educational consultant--you have demonstrated the capacity to admit you might have been wrong about something. But many of them are hauling in the kind of $ you're talking about.

real estate - you set your own hours

Starting teacher

35k a year (180 days of work)

35,000/180=194.4 dollars a day

194.4/7hours of work=27.7 dollars an hour

27.7/30 students=.92 cents per hour each student. That is a damn good babysitter if you ask me..... Although 7 dollars a day to babysit and teach your kid isn't really worth it....

I think most decent teachers are putting in more than 7 hours a day during the school year