How do you get a private teaching job? Where do you get one? Whom do you teach? What can you teach? These are questions probably boggling your minds. The challenge of getting one is what we are about delving into.

Do you want to know more about getting a home teaching job? Read on!

FACTS ABOUT GETTING PRIVATE TEACHING JOBS

WHO?

It is a venture majorly recommended for students in tertiary institutions, corps members, teachers and other people of intellect to dwell on. While waiting after graduating, private teaching is one of the things you could do.

WHY?

Private teaching is for you because you care about having additional stream of income, saving money or refreshning your knowledge.

WHEN?

Home teaching is a venture you can do full-time or part-time, depending on how you take things. It just has to do with the agreement between your client and you.

WHERE?

You teach at the comfort you so wish. It could be at home, in your office or online. All that matters is that you are getting some fulfilment from doing it.

HOW?

BE A GOOD STUDENT

“You can’t give what you don’t have”, says an Arabian Proverb. For you to be in for the task of teaching others, you have to be knowledgeable about the subject. A mastery of the subject to be taught is very important to prove your competence in the art. If you don’t know what you want to teach, you wouldn’t be making any impact.

BE KNOWN FOR INTELLECTUALISM

There are certain times we overlook some situations as a mere joke. It’s time to get serious friend. You don’t know who is observing you. Whenever you engage in argument with others, base it on facts, not unfounded sentiments. The problem people have with showing what they know could pit them in the wrong side against other people some other time. I know of a number of folks who got opportunities through the way they contribute to discourse. It’s time you started going intellectual and stop rabble rousing.

HAVE AN AREA OF SPECIALISATION

Mr Sanda is a brilliant scholar. He can take English, Mathematics and any other subject at any level. That’s interesting! Help me tell him that doing that doesn’t bring the best out of him. If he is focused on a specific subject, he would see himself learning, unlearning and relearning at the best pace he can ever imagine. A choice of specialisation should be based on what you know how to teach best. Your familiarity with it most of the times would sell you off as a genius.

BE VERSED IN MAJOR SUBJECT AREAS

This actually applies in a world where no one really needs a private lesson on ‘minor’ subjects. It is the knowledge of ‘majors’ that count. English Language, Mathematics, a Science subject, a social science subject and an indigenous language are basic requirements at the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in Nigeria. For entry into tertiary education, high grades in the Use of English and three other subjects relating to the prospective course of study is required. Equip yourself with knowledge in these key areas.

COURSE OF STUDY DOESN’T MATTER

If you are good at something, why not develop yourself in it? Your present course of study is no barrier. No one is really interested in it but what you have to offer.  You don’t need to be in the sciences to teach some primary school student mathematics. Although clients most likely prefer specialists to teach their wards, teaching jobs are still open to other folks who have got something upstairs. Are you game?

TELL OTHERS WHAT YOU CAN DO

The best place to find one is around you. I mean where you reside or work. The people you relate with are possibly your best shot at getting a private teaching offer. Start your search for clients from among people within your neighbourhood. Focus more on students in the terminal levels of their education (Basic 4-6, Basic 8-9, SS2-3). They are the likeliest students. Colleagues at the workplace, parents, and every other person who know how educated you are could be able to connect you to a private teaching job.

 SET UP A PRIVATE TEACHING BUSINESS OUTFIT

Establishing a business outfit that recruits teachers for private teaching service might be the best bet for you if you want more than just teaching a child. XYZ Educational Services would be making money in two ways – referring and serving. In one way, you’re connecting interested private teachers to interested parents/guardians. In another, you win yourself some clients. You either earn a commission on each teacher working through your teaching outfit or a full payment for such service you personally handle. Isn’t that beautiful?

ADVERTISE ONLINE

Show off what you do to friends and every other person online. If you’ve chosen to put up the advert under a business brand, that’s pretty fine. Choosing to just write a simple statement “Contact 0803333333 if you need a physics teacher” wouldn’t be a bad idea too. Turn your online ‘friends’ to clients in your own interest. There are a few free advertising mediums such as the OLX and VConnect where people can show what they do without paying for ad spaces. Visit either site, see preceding adverts there and use them as guides in forming your own.

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