Non-teaching job to supplement supply?

[Whattodo2001]

Apologies if this has been posted about numerous times already.

Just asking for ideas/experiences of people making a reasonable living as a supply teacher as well as something else during holidays/part of the week/evenings?

If so, what is the other job? Ideally it would be something flexible/from home. But not necessarily as obviously these ideal jobs are not easy to come by!

Thanks in advance

Tutoring is the obvious choice. What phase/ subject are you?

Thanks- I teach English and Spanish up to GCSE. Have half considered tutoring for years, but have never given it a go.

Tutoring will be far more lucrative than any other job, unless you have other qualifications? I tutor from home full time, face to face and online alongside mornings only supply work. It's well paid, enjoyable and mainly low stress.

There's also tefl teaching in the summer? A 120 hour certificate is very easy and cheap to get if needed.

Definitely tutoring. In my area the average payment is £25 per hour.

You could also offer Spanish lessons. Group lessons would be more lucrative.

Oh yes, group lessons for home-educated children would be good - creative writing and conversational Spanish. You won't get a lot of call for Spanish GCSE but some for English. In my area you're looking at £35 an hour.

Exam marking in the summer term?

Fantastic- thanks all. I just need to take a deep breath and get my head around how to get started.

I've only ever been half-heartedly in teaching and have always fantasised about doing other things (like my own business from home of some sort- but lacking in skills/ideas/money!) So although tutoring kjnd of fulfills that fantasy, I think I've always dismissed it because it's still teaching.

But the thing is, I do actually enjoy the act of teaching itself- just hate feeling like I'm at school myself (i.e. what a 'proper' teaching job feels like, to me at least). So perhaps I should just give this tutoring thing a go.

@rosesinmygarden can I ask how you got started/what a typical session is like, etc? Would you say you make more doing this than full time supply?

@tinytemper66 - I've always quite fancied exam marking too, but ditto above! Have you done it, and if so, is it really very pressured?

Thanks all for your thoughts.

Babysitting and pet sitting in the holidays if you want something more casual?

TEFL is also a good shout as TBH the summer teaching is pretty easygoing.

It can be stressful but can make over £1000

@rosesinmygarden
Hi- can I just ask how much online tutoring do you do compared with face to face? How have you gone about setting that up?

Thanks again

Exam marking is pressured and very short term but is useful if teaching or tutoring as it gives insight.

The joy of supply is getting into lots of schools and realising that there are schools out there that you could work in (and some you couldn't). It made a huge difference to me and I am now part-time in a school I love and I do some primary PPA another day and some work for the LEA on another day. I fill in with tutoring.

Online tutoring - just register with all the sites (there are many of them) and tick the 'will do online tutoring' box. Build up your clients from there till you don't need the online referrals (and their huge commissions). I now get most of my work through word of mouth. Try any local language schools - there are 3 around me and I have worked on and off for all of them over the last few years doing both GCSE booster work, A level tuition, holiday language courses and TEFL teaching to foreign students. It doesn't pay particularly well but it all adds up.

I normally do around 20 hours tuition a week and approx 4-5 are online. The cast majority of online is done in day time hours for foreign students. I currently work for a company who provide UK teachers for Chinese children. I do get some requests for online from private clients but not a huge amount.

This week I've done 15 hours online ... extra lessons for my students on lock down in Shanghai!