How to become a Teacherpreneur

1. How I have become a
Teacherpreneur
By Marina Kladova
Trendy English 5, November 26, 2016

2. How do you understand the word
TEACHERPRENEUR?
Teacher Entrepreneur

3. How do you understand an
Entrepreneur?
Character traits Idea&mission Social Capital

4. How do you understand the word
TEACHERPRENEUR?
 Teachers transforming
their classrooms with
innovations and
technologies
 Teachers making a
difference around in their
community
 Teachers making money

5. Different levels of making a
difference
1. I myself
2. My close surroundings
(family, students, local
area)
3. My work
4. My industry
5. My country
6. The world

6. How it all started - March 2010…
A-L-E-R-T!!!

7. My wishes for my job in July 2010
 Work only with SS I like
 More opportunities for
development
 More free time
 More financial reward
 Diversify my financial
income
 Combine my interests and
earning money
 Making the difference

8. My decision was to be a private entrepreneur,
not to start my own company. Why?
 Had no management
experience
 Had no extra financial
resources
 Didn’t want to do just a
school
 Wanted more free time
and less stress

9. 2010-2013 2013-2015 2015 2016
-Private lessons
only
-occasional
translations
-Private lessons
-in-company
lessons
-skype-lessons
-oral&written
translations
-English&
Windsurfing
Camp
-Private lessons
-in-company
lessons
-skype-lessons
-oral&written
translations
-English&
Windsurfing
Camp
-Speaking Clubs
-Private lessons
-in-company
lessons
-skype-lessons
--English&
Windsurfing
Camp
-Speaking Clubs
-Educonsulting
and eduaudit
-Conferences for
English teachers
-Teacher training
What have I done?

10. English&Windsurfing Camp in Dahab
and Rhodes
 Edutainment = education&
entertainment
 SS kill two birds with one
stone
 I practice my windsurfing
and earn money
WIN-WIN 

11. Trendy English conferences
 Promotion of CPD in
Russia
 Creating the opportunity
for networking
 Realization of my
leadership potential
 Dissimilation of my
knowledge and expertise
WIN-WIN 

12. Educonsulting and eduaudit
 2nd opinion for schools about
their business processes and
generating some ideas for
development
 Creating smth new & useful
for SS
 Opportunity to create a job in
the future
WIN-WIN 

13. The lessons I have learnt
 Create smth new
 Observe the trends
 Work 70% to generate caseflow,
30% - for the future cash flow
 Diversify your income
 Do not be afraid of
experiments
 Talk to people
 Sleep more
 Never stop learning

14. What can you do?

15. Several teacherpreneurs I know
Alexandra Chistyakova
Her English Thinking Club
- www.etclub.info

16. Several teacherpreneurs I know
Zhenya Bakin&Natalia
Belousova
Their project ELepanT
http://preteach.net/elephant

17. Several teacherpreneurs I know
Elena Peresada
her project StudyCraft and
Trendy English conference
www.studycraft.ru

18. Several teacherpreneurs I know
Veronika Bandurina and her
fb group
https://www.facebook.com/
groups/756235007746189/
Ksenia Zagorskaya and
Teacher’s Lab
https://teacherslabblog.wor
dpress.com/

19. Several teacherpreneurs I know
Oksana Kirsanova Irina Malinina
Veronika Bandurina
They organize workshops and webinars for English teachers
Elena Peresada

20. Several teacherpreneurs I know
Nik Peachey and his e-
books
http://peacheypublications.
com/

21. Practical tool – personal strategy
What do I want to
achieve? What are
the time frames?
Where am I now?
What is the gap?
What do I need
to do to close
the gap?
How can I do it?
I want to be self-
employed since
the next autumn
NOW – work for
school, some
private SS
GAP – no extra
financial income,
small social
capital,
mortgage
1.Develop my
professional
network
2.Create a
personal brand
3.Find extra
sources of
income
1.Start blogging
in my group
2.Get
international
qualifications
3.Think up
some ways to
diversify my
income

22. Practical tool 2 to create a new
product/ service – Questions
 What contribution do I want to
make during my life?
 What are my strong points as a
person, a teacher, a
professional?
 What do I enjoy doing?
 What problems/ challenges/
difficulties do my students/
colleagues/ friends have?
 How can I help them?

23. Some trends in education
 UGC-Digital content
 VR and AR
 AI and machine learning
 adaptive learning tools
 learning analytics +personalized
education
 Intelligent tutoring system (ITS)
and teaching robots
 machine translation
 blended classrooms+ MOOCs
 no line bw formal education and
self-paced individual education

24. What are my plans?
 Develop AI and machine
learning and learning tools
 Start blogging about
teacherpreneurship
 Dissimilate my knowledge
 Create a community to
develop CPD programs and
promote
teacherpreneurship

25. How am I going to achieve them?
 Observe the trends
 Define challenges in the
future (in 5 years)
 Define my lacks and
necessary competences
 Write down my
professional goals and
make a plan
 DO, DO, DO, DO 
 Reflect and make
adjustments

26. And to finish…

27. My contacts
Тел 8-916-751-05-62
Почта kladoffaM@gmail.com
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/marin
a.kladova
VK group
https://vk.com/club102548738
Марина Кладова
DELTA –qualified teacher
and teacher trainer,
teacherpreneur