Janine Bray-Mueller - The Ultimate Guide to Teaching Niches

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Parts of this book have already been published on the www.ft-training.com website, in the digital EFL magazine, or in the EFTT newsletter.

Writing this book has been an incredible journeybut it could never have happened without the moral support of my family:

This book is dedicated to my Hubby.

My hero and partner for life.

And to my four wonderful children.

How can I thank you all?

• Richard, my IT knight on a white steed, who never failed to help when the computer tried to get the better of me (which it did often enough).
• Elyssa with her sunny disposition, always cheerful, always ready to lend a helping hand.
• Herbert with his unshakeable sense of justice and his moral support on nights I couldnt sleep.
• Jessica with her unwavering support, her caring, and her strong sense of family and family moral commitment.

Thanks to Cara Leopold of www.leo-listening.com, teacher colleague in France for beta reading and test driving this publication.

My thanks to Sean DSouza of Psychotactics.com. His marketing insights and the many lively discussions in his membership sitethe CAVEtriggered my enthusiasm to write this book for freelance teachers.

Latin: nanos gigantum humeris insidentes

Discovering truth by building on previous discoveries

This concept has been traced back to the 12th century and is attributed to Bernard of Chartres.

HOW TO STAND OUT IN A CROWDED TEACHING MARKET AND FIND A STEADY STREAM OF STUDENTS

Step-by-Step Practical Advice for Freelance Teachers

Janine Bray-Mueller

• To avoid the he or she issue, the plural is used wherever possible.
• To avoid long, drawn-out explanative descriptions, the word student is used to encompass a student, a company, a customer, a school, or any educational institutions, who are taught or have received courses given by the freelance teacher.
• Customer will be used in general situations and implies a student, or company, or school, not yet enrolled as students of the freelance teacher.
• A course encompasses all forms of tuition, classes, lessons, workshops, seminars, etc.
• The word problem is used to cover all types of student learning issues and learning aims.

You cannot induce a career revolution if you dont know why a revolution in your career is necessary;

If you dont know why a revolution is necessary in your career, why should you change?

Let me tell you about a Nobel Prize Award, Eric Kandel, and a sea slug.

The 2000 Nobel Award in Physiology or Medicine was granted to Eric Kandel for his research on changes in neurons associated with memory storage when he produced visual proof (with the California sea slug; Aplysia californica) of how people were able to learn. The sea slug is the largest single-cell creature living in the world, and although its simple nervous system doesnt allow complex social behaviour, it is still capable of a variety of associative and non-associative learning tasks. This capability gave the first breakthrough to identifying how memory worked and led to the first step to understanding the cause of Alzheimers disease.