Lesson Plans Online

Teachers in the UK earn additional income by selling their own class materials online.

18:47 15 April 2015

TES website is giving teachers in the United Kingdom an opportunity to earn additional income by selling their lesson plans online. The digital marketplace aims to help teachers who often complained about long hours at home making their own class materials. 

 

Earlier this year, a school in Cambridge published its own set of GCSE textbooks on Apple’s iBooks. The idea of sharing ideas online has expanded rapidly, with up to a million downloads per day of free material through TES website. 

 

Due to the huge demand, teachers are encouraged to put a price tag on their lesson ideas and make money on something they worked very hard on.   

 

Head teachers' leader Brian Lightman said it reflected the "pace of change" when online information can be shared so quickly and when teachers were under pressure to be "agile" in providing up-to-date materials.

 

But he cautioned: "Teachers need to be careful before they sell resources, if they're employed in a school there is a question about intellectual property and schools need to have a clear protocol."