Discussion about questioning about it with a teacher who sells his own teaching materials online and becomes a millionaire

School teachers sometimes make teaching materials by themselves to make students' learning more efficient, but there are sites that sell such teaching materials online. There are a number of teachers holding large amounts of money by selling the original teaching materials, but there is an opinion that "leads to the sharing of good ideas", but "Is the teaching material something to sell" Discussions are taking place.

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A website where you can sell your own teaching materials online if you registerTeachers Pay TeachersWith over 2 million teaching materials uploaded, more than 80,000 teachers sell "goods". From actual sales, a premium member who pays 40% for a free member and $ 59.95 (about 6500 yen) for an annual fee is deducted from a 15% fee and money is transferred to the teacher's hand.

Although it is a teaching material sales site which some objections are also raised from some experts, online transactions are enjoying success. There seem to be a lot of cases where small sales are raised, but there are many people who got sales of 1 million dollars (about 100 million yen) in the past 6 years like the account name "Miss Kindergarten" It is said that. A 32-year-old woman named Hader Hartstein, Miss Kindergarten, said, "I am very thankful that Teachers Pay Teachers has visited my life and my passion and career have come together in one place I will tell you. Mr. Hurst Tyne has a financial leeway to leave work for several years for a baby born soon.


The materials sold by Miss Kindergarten are widely spread through their own blogs and social networking, by using arithmetic of 120 dollars a year (about 13,000 yen) or texts of letters from the "alphabet card" which is provided free of charge It is said that it is done. Work seems to be increasing in proportion to the size of the scale, "This should be regarded as a full-time job completely different from the original work, and it is necessary to put in a lot of labor." It is.

Founded in 2006, Teachers Pay Teachers has passed the milestone in 2016 when sales paid to the seller break through 100 million dollars (about 11 billion yen) for the first time. Many attention has gathered in this field, and large companies such as "Teachwise", "Teacher's Notebook", "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt" and "Amazon" are also entering this industry.

Meanwhile, there is a voice of doubt that "teaching materials should be sold". So far each teacher has devised ingenuity and resistance to the fact that educational materials that have pursued comprehensibility has been "monitored" are persistent, and whether the teaching material that is being sold originally belongs to the teacher There are also views that point out that the copyright is being infringed because it can not be confirmed.


However, there are many merits from the perspective of the teacher in the field. In many cases, teachers themselves develop teaching materials themselves is a private time since the work has been finished, there is not much burden there. A teacher seems to have spent 20 to 30 hours per month to develop teaching materials, but if you can find the desired teaching material on a site like Teachers Pay Teachers, it costs only a few dollars (several hundred yen) You can buy your own time with money, and in some cases you may be able to get better teaching materials than you thought. Another teacher, from my teacher of a colleague when I was making teaching materials by myself,Reinventing the wheelAre you doing? "It seems that it came to be used online teaching material sharing service from being asked.

Sites where teachers share various information ·WeAreTeachersHanna · Hudson, one of the administrators of Mr. Hanna · Hudson, made it easy for the teachers to trust each other and support them, and to access the teaching resources developed by each teacher via the web, Also raises the merit that the cost is kept down, saying, "Throwing personal property into teaching materials used by my teacher in my class has more significance than money."

However, evils caused by the development of the web seem to be said to be in this field as well. It is an organization to which the principal class people belongNational Association of Secondary School PrincipalsBob Farahas spokesperson points out that by bringing the concept of ownership into ideas and educational content, the co-spirit cultivated in past school education will be lost. In fact, some states prohibit selling teaching materials on-line for teacher contracts.


There are also ways to point out how these teaching materials were created. If it was developed during the working hours as a faculty member, then it will be the property of the school, and individuals will not be able to benefit from it. In the case of 2004, the New York federal court did not grant ownership, while the teacher who was treated as suspended sought to have ownership of the property, such as a test question, left in the school I am in a position to support state judgment. In addition, the Federal High Court shows the judgment that the school has the ownership of the teaching materials created by the teacher during the work.

But there is also an objection to this view. Miss Kindergarten said Mr. Hartstein said, "All my teaching materials were made in my time.It is a kindergarten teacher who is busy sitting and not having time to sigh during the day It is said. Mr. Hartstein said that he never sold teaching materials thought of becoming rich and said he was selling his own experience to share it with others and said that the teacher " So if you had very good teaching materials, why not share it with other people, and if you can get some money there, is not it wonderful? " .