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Since I had that business idea a couple weeks ago, my company has partnered with a curriculum development company, got an IT consultant in to set up infrastructure and tech support, we got an education consultant in, we& #39;ve taken in 300 teacher resumes, AND our first bookings. 1
Oh! And we got a bunch of people to chip in small amounts of money to cover the advertising budget, which is the part that& #39;s killing me tbth. So what are we doing? Online high school lessons - tutoring: grades 6-11. Math, Science, History/Social Studies. 2
Classes are based on the Ontario curriculum and will cover the last 3 months of studies. We have a teenager and the materials sent over by the school district aren& #39;t good - one was a link to the RBC mortgage calculator. There& #39;s no curriculum, no concrete lesson plan. 3
Also, with a teenager in the house, it& #39;s a finite space and you don& #39;t want to make isolation worse by arguing with a teen and fighting over homeschooling and homework. Moving this all off to a third party that knows what they& #39;re doing was the best option for us. 4
So we have a course schedule that includes 2 1-hour lessons per week of Math, the same of Science, and History, then a 1 hour individual tutoring session to catch up, and a 1-hour online peer group study session. It results in a 3-hour per day block of study, 5 days per week. 5
In terms of teacher pay, we looked at average teacher pay in Ontario and nearly doubled it. Doing that though means we need a minimum of 5 students per grade to make the programs break even. The maximum group size is 15. 6
We& #39;ve priced it at $60 per week - which we hope is in the budget of most people. We& #39;ll be coming out with & #39;light& #39; versions in a couple weeks, as well as a package program so that smaller communities can run their own groups based on our model. 7
So that& #39;s how I& #39;ve spent isolation. That + editing articles, writing a couple articles, working on book edits, managing overseas IT team for new company, managing staff at old company - which is somehow all still less work than normal. Our site is here: http://www.experienceeducation.ca"> http://www.experienceeducation.ca 8
