Show Notes: Episode 2 – Discovering Your Teacher Superpower

Hey teachers! Welcome back to Teacher Business Buzz, where we dive into daily insights just for educators ready to start an online business. Today, we’re asking: What’s your teacher superpower? Here’s what we covered:

Highlights:

• What is a Teacher Superpower?: Your unique skill or specialized knowledge that comes so naturally to you, you might not even recognize it as a talent. But trust me, it is!

• Think About What Excites You: Which parts of teaching light you up? Is it planning, small group instruction, or working with specific student groups?

• What Do Colleagues Seek Your Help With: Are you the go-to for tech, art lessons, or math strategies? What do other teachers ask you for?

• Wave the Magic Wand Question: If you could teach one topic all day, what would it be and to whom—students, teachers, or even parents?

Why It Matters:

Identifying your superpower is the first step in turning it into an online business. Knowing what you excel at helps you pinpoint who you can serve and the results you can deliver.

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Well, hey there teachers.

Welcome to Teacher Business Buzz.

I've got a juicy question for you today.

What's your teacher superpower?

Now, if we haven't met before, I'm Tiffany Webster and I'm the co founder of Teacher Business.com along with my husband Dwayne.

I'm a wife and mom of three boys and a former Disney princess turned K12 teacher and administrator for 25 years.

Now an entrepreneur and a top 10 charter school podcast host.

But I am here at Teacher Business Buzz to help teachers like you start an online business.

Now, what do you think your teacher superpower is?

@teacherbusiness.com we believe that all teachers have superpowers, aka your specialized knowledge or skillset that you can teach others and use to turn into a business.

Many teachers overlook their superpower and it's because it's too obvious.

It's something that you just do so naturally that you don't really think of it as being a talent or specialized knowledge or specialized skills that could help somebody else.

But the truth is that what comes easily to you might be exactly what the teacher next door is struggling with.

Imagine when you are busy on your computer and you're just putting together your slideshow presentations for your class.

That comes really easily to you.

The teacher next door might be dying over that kind of a task.

They might be struggling to figure out canva or struggling how to use the smart board.

And sometimes those things that are really easy for you that you're just really good at can really be helpful to someone else if you can teach them how to do that.

And that is what your teacher superpower is a specialized skill set or knowledge that you have that you could teach other people and turn into a business.

So I have seen this firsthand as a teacher and an administrator walking through the hallways of schools.

I have seen teachers specialize in all kinds of things.

Grade levels for sure, right?

The person that is the go to kindergarten teacher or that seventh grade math teacher, that's amazing, right?

And they just know seventh graders so well.

So we see teachers specialize in grade levels all the time and subject matter as well, whether that's math or STEM or pe.

I've seen amazing art teachers and music teachers or teachers that are just really good at reading groups or really great at writing.

When you see someone who is a master in a certain subject matter.

So that is definitely a specialized skillset that some teachers have.

I've seen teachers specialize in classroom management in classroom environments.

Okay.

You know those teachers that have great classroom environments where Everything just seems to have its place and be organized and be beautiful, yet really functional as well.

Those teachers definitely specialize in classroom environments.

I've seen teachers specialize in classroom communities, those morning routines or the ways that students solve problems and hold each other accountable.

There's some teachers that are really great when it comes to communities.

I've seen teachers that are great with special and specific populations, whether that's special ed or gate students or ELL students.

They really just have a knack for working with that specific population of students.

I've seen other teachers that just specialize in their unique styles.

The quirky teacher or the one that's really funny, or the one that has a way of bringing music into their teaching methods and teaching styles.

So I've definitely seen some amazing teachers that have unique teaching styles that could definitely teach other teachers how to incorporate those same styles into their classrooms.

And there's just so many more teachers are really specialists in so many things.

So I wanted you to really be able to start wrapping your head around what your teacher superpower is.

So today I'm going to provide you three questions that you can use to start to identify your teacher superpower.

All right?

So number one is I want you to think about the parts of teaching that light you up.

And you can just jot these down on a notepad or you can put notes in your phone.

But just start thinking about what are the parts of teaching that really get you excited?

The parts of the teaching that.

Is it the planning that you love?

Is it being with the kids?

Is it giving direct instruction?

Is it small group instruction?

Helping students that are struggling, helping students that are gifted students extend their learning?

Just think about what is it that really lights you up the most, and that is a good clue about what your superpower might be.

Another thing that you could think about is what do other teachers usually come to you for when they need help?

Right.

So are you the tech go to?

Are you the art go to?

You always have a great art lesson?

Do you have great ways of teaching math and breaking down some concepts that might be tricky?

Do you have great STEM lessons?

And do you always have, like, fun experiments for the kids and know how to put all those pieces together to have really great hands on lessons?

So think about what it is that other teachers come to you for.

That's a really good clue as well.

That is your teacher's superpower, that specialized knowledge or skill set that you have.

And then thirdly is our wave the magic wand question.

If you could wave a magic wand and just teach one topic or one skill, what would you teach?

What would you love to just spend your day teaching and who would you teach?

Would you love to work with students only?

Would you love to just work with younger students or just work with older students?

Would you love to provide more instruction to teachers or to work with school districts on more professional development type of opportunities?

Would you like to give instruction to parents?

There's a lot of homeschool parents who could benefit from the knowledge and skills that teachers have.

So think about if you could wave that magic wand, what would that look like for you?

What would you teach and who would you teach?

All right, those are three ways that you can start thinking about what your teacher superpower might be.

And identifying your superpower is really the first step in starting to think about creating your online business because you want to be clear on what it is that you're really great at so that you know exactly who you can serve and the results that you can deliver.

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