4 Fantastic Work From Home Jobs For Teachers

Looking for some extra cash fast? This post features four work from home jobs for teachers. These legitimate part-time jobs will help put extra money in your pocket without the stress.

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Why Do Teachers Need Work From Home Jobs?

One of the perceived benefits of working as a teacher is having summers “off.” I put that word “off” in quotation marks because of course, teachers still work.

Our busy days extend right into the summer months.

If you are a teacher reading this, I know I am preaching to the choir here!

Yet, many schools and districts aren’t paying teachers for the essential necessary work that must be done each summer.

So I am offering four of my favorite work from home jobs that I think are great for teachers.

Online Work From Home Teaching Jobs for Teachers

One of the first work from home jobs for teachers involves work that we do everyday anyway–teaching!

Teaching online is by far my favorite way to make money from home as a teacher. In fact, I’ve been doing it since late 2017.

Many online teaching platforms exist, but you can also set up your own teaching schedule and prices. Just start advertising in your community by posting flyers around your public library.

There are also community boards at places like Barnes & Noble and 2nd & Charles that allow you to advertise your tutoring services.

Once you start getting students to tutor, use Zoom or Google Meet to teach them virtually. Another tool that will help you organize your workflow is Google Sheets, where you can direct parents to sign up for your teaching / tutoring slots!

Calendly is also amazing at helping you schedule your teaching appointments! (No affiliate endorsement: I just think this service is wonderful!)

Selling Online Teaching Resources

The second work from home job for teachers taps into your creative side: selling teaching resources online.

Let’s face it, you are already making so many things for the students in your classroom anyway, right?

Here’s a quick poll…how many of the following things have you created for use to supplement learning in your class:

• Quizzes and Tests
• Forms to fill out for Parents
• Open House Slideshow and Brochure
• Games and Hands-on Activities
• Worksheets that align to a certain standard that your school’s chosen curriculum didn’t provide
• Letters to Parents
• Surveys

Do I really need to keep going? As teachers, we seem to always be designing and tweaking materials to meet our students’ needs.

So why not package those babies up and sell them to other teachers that would want them? Yes, it can be done and money can be made from it!

You have options for how to begin:

• Teachers Pay Teachers
• Amazon Ignite
• Set up a shop on your own website
• Etsy

Just like with online teaching, selling resources online has its ups and downs. Here are my issues with selling resources online:

• The money varies: Don’t expect to become a millionaire overnight and have the exact amount of money flowing in every single month.
  
• You aren’t getting paid while you are creating the resource. All the money you make comes after the product is completed and posted for sale. Think of a writer creating a book–the write gets paid once the book is complete.
  
• You need to market your resources. Even after product creation, you need to advertise to get sales.

I include this as one of the work from home jobs for teachers because it offers amazing long-term passive income when you work it consistently.

Is It Worth It to Sell Teaching Resources Online?

Building passive income takes time, but pays off tremendously!

Once the upfront work is done, and you’ve marketed your work, you can continue passively making money from that source over and over again.

Plus, it feels great knowing that you made something which helps other teachers and students. 

Grading Standardized Testing

My third category of work from home jobs for teachers requires your focused teacher expertise: grading student work from standardized testing.

I know, I know…who wants to spend their summer grading?

For two summers, I worked with Pearson to grade fifth grade writing from home. I only worked for Pearson, but just like with the first two options listed above, there are other platforms you can pursue.

Working from Home for Pearson

Pearson provides very thorough training and the best part is that I got paid during the training. Here are other details from this option that are helpful to know:

• The pay (with Pearson) ranges from $10-$12 an hour.
  
• You must work a certain number of hours a week to maintain employment: so although you get to choose the hours you work, you still need to meet your weekly quota of work time.
  
• The grading requires an online connection and obviously a computer or tablet for access.

Although I deeply appreciated working this option–and would do it again–I only did it for those two summers.

So if you think you’d be interested in this option, check out Pearson’s page here for more info.

(By the way, for transparency’s sake, I am NOT being paid to recommend Pearson. I continue to mention them because they are the company I worked for and am familiar with.)

Working as a Virtual Assistant

Working as an at home Virtual Assistant (VA) is another great work option for teachers who want to make money from home.

Many of us are expert multi-taskers anyway and can do many administrative tasks that others need help with.

Here are some possible things you can do as a teacher VA:

• Typing Documents, Dissertations, Etc. (which is work I’ve done)
• Researching for Others
• Email Maintenance
• Social Media Marketing
• Designing Pinterest Pins
• Digital Organization
• Editing and Proofreading (work that I’ve also done for others)
• Creating Product Covers for Others’ Digital Resources (I’ve done this one too)
• Basically…any online work that you are good at doing!!

This sky is the limit here!

Yet, working as a VA does require that you market your services well. 

I once worked for a writer editing and proofreading his book and I LOVED IT!

He sent me his work through Google Docs. I made corrections and recommendations in red for him (just like grading student writing). Then he paid me through PayPal based on the service terms we established together.

Boom. Badda. Bing!

More Ways to Make and Save Money as a Teacher

These four options are certainly not the only ways teachers can bring in the extra cash this summer.

You can babysit, blog, and even bake cakes right from your own home!

These posts offer other helpful ideas for making and saving money as a teacher:

• 35 Ways to Make and Save Money as a Teacher
  
• The Best Heavy-Duty Pencil Sharpeners
  
• Gmail Hacks Every Teacher Should Know

If you happen to be working from home with children, this post is just what you need:

Thanks for all the awesome things you do!