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I create supplemental lesson content on overlooked topics for adults and minors: entrepreneurial, solopreneurial, and artistic topics.
A key topic is the relationship between self-employment, medical, and social justice issues.
I have written book reviews for regional women's publications, a cover article for aspiring entrepreneurs for California Job Journal, and articles twice for websites, such as Simply Hired, and Teachers Net Gazette.
Midwest Book Review gave an excellent review for one of my book titles.
Consumers, teachers, and more than 90 public libraries, community colleges, and university libraries have bought my work through distributors, such as Ingram and Midwest Tape.
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Online Teaching for Entrepreneurial Beginners: Tips, Facts, and Lessons
So You Want to Become A Freelance Online Teacher is a guide for beginners that examines the skills, abilities aptitudes, and interest in entrepreneurship, and in using technology as a teaching tool. A field suitable for both able-bodied and people with disabilities, but easy entry means heavy competition. Proper fact gathering and critical thinking are key areas many people overlook. See the preview for the table of contents and excerpts Contents *Book excerpts *Bibliography and 150 links for
11th - 12th, Higher Education
Business
Music Biz Notes:
Music Biz Notes For music lovers and aspiring musicians, this is a fun and useful study guide featuring contemporary and historical information. See the preview and table of contents. Topics IncludeSelf-evaluation Aptitudes Innovation Activities and printables will help the reader to answer questions like what do I need to know to enter and succeed in this industry? Or, how do I avoid common mistakes? Contents Include Two printables A. How Much Do You Know? 1. 19 Multiple choice and tr
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Business, Music
Avoiding Graphic Design Mistakes And Protecting Your Ideas: Printable Lessons
Graphic Design Warning for Beginners reveals common mistakes and how to avoid hidden pitfalls. See the preview for a sample. Contents: Adobe XI, Bookmarked, print enabled, 27-pages, plus bibliography and 70 hyperlinks. quiz *Note to Reader *Graphic Design Warning for Beginners *Protecting your work & Ideas: what you may not know about copyright, trademark, fair-use, and patent laws in the real-world. 33 + Copyright Tips and Resources for Beginners *Shepard Fairey And Fair-Use Law: Using Pre
11th - 12th, Higher Education
Graphic Arts
Road Trip Entrepreneurial: Printable Critical Thinking Q&A Activity
Entrepreneurial questions, critical thinking, and writing activity. This fun supplemental lesson can be used by independent learners and as a group discussion tool. Students learn about four memorable ventures in three states featured with links to a series of corresponding articles. Content requires written short answers that will spark awareness, and provide an inside look at the business world. See sample questions in the previewQuestions and critical thinking skills are simple yet powe
9th - 12th
Business, Writing
Movie Lessons Entrepreneur and Career Themes in Hollywood Films
Career and entrepreneur lessons from movie subplots in selected films.This is a pop culture guide that will examine skills, abilities, aptitudes, social-political issues, and livelihood concepts. Updated June 28, 2016 Insightful questions + referwence links for four additional films: The Greatest…Ali The Bodyguard Akeelah and the Bee The Bourne Identity Lesson Objective Improve understanding of how personal, cultural or societal issues may influence career path choices. Did Yo
11th - 12th, Adult Education
Family Consumer Sciences
Lawyers Who Become Entrepreneurs
Lawyers Who Become Entrepreneurs... reveals how and why a great number of professionals leave law to start their own businesses. This guide includes hard -to-find information for professionals or students reconsidering a career in law. It’s an eye-opening look at a subject many outsiders know little about. Contents: *3 Book Excerpts *3 Worksheets: *Checklist and Outline Questionnaire *Bibliography and Hyperlinks *Adobe XI, Bookmarked, print enabled, 45-pages + . Selected Profiles:
12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Business
Entrepreneurship: Tips, Facts, and Printable Lessons for Beginners
This supplemental lesson resource features short, entertaining, jargon-free content that includes activities and backstories for students and adults in literacy programs. Did You Know?"In a 2011 survey, 88 percent of young people said that entrepreneurship education is vitally important, given the new economy — and yet 74 percent of college students had no access to entrepreneurship resources on campus. And when resources were available, most students felt they were woefully inadequate," writes
11th - 12th, Adult Education
Business
Entrepreneurs and Their Aptitudes: Printable, Q & A, Research Activity
Increase knowledge of aptitudes and the role of innate ability, creative and entrepreneurial activities. Match the talents of selected industry leaders such as Steve Jobs, Sarah Blakely, Joy Mangano, Tim Storey, Keith McCurdy. Read profiles, listen to a short video, consult selected websites and answer seemingly simple questions that spark critical thinking about ability. Materials Two worksheets and answer key Free resources Understanding Your Aptitudes PDF Video-Oprah sessions Tim Storey
11th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Business
Avoid Common Mistakes When Naming a Product or Service: Printable Lessons
Update: Recent CBS news report, 2:47 minutes on the issue can be found on YouTube: Sebastopol Chili Crisp Sauce Company could close shop due to a lawsuitAvoid common mistakes when naming a business, product, or service. This supplemental lesson resource includes multiple-choice questions. It's a collection of biz literacy printables for beginners. Using short, entertaining lessons, activities, and backstories from small and micro business, Hollywood, and elsewhere to teach dos and don'ts of ke
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Business
Aspiring Writer's Guide to Choosing and Researching a Book Topic
Aspiring Writer's Guide How to identify and evaluate good book ideas is the primary objective of this supplemental material and illustrates often overlooked issues and steps to avoid them. Writing a book is a dream goal for people of all age groups. Whether for personal profit, career change, self-fulfillment, fundraising for a nonprofit, or for use as a public relations tool. Guide IncludesTwo research Activities Worksheet Outline Profiles, stories, tips, and advice from experts. Answer Key Bi
12th, Higher Education
Business, Writing
How to Read A Regional Business Newspaper
How To Read A Regional Business Newspaper: Strategies that uncover new business ideas or hidden job opportunities shows simple ways to encourage critical thinking skills. See the preview for the table of contents ISBN: 978-0-9831539-7-9. This supplemental lesson resource contains topics that traditional Newspaper in Education lessons overlook. The material primarily features regional business journals, rather than large metropolitan newspapers. Historical and contemporary stories are inc
10th - 12th, Adult Education
Business, Reading Strategies
Food Truck Project
The food truck industry in the US and the cuisine and exports of a foreign land are primary themes in this mini-lesson that focuses on a popular tourist destination. Activities include *Write a paragraph on inspiration and insights for a food truck product after researching the cuisine and exports of a foreign land. *Redesign three printable illustrations...cut and paste, sketch, or doodle. See the preview for introduction and contents. 3-pages of reference links Answer key Thank you for visit
9th - 12th
Business, English Language Arts
Movie Lessons: Musicians And Career Path Choices: Printable Q and A
A Q & A for the TV movie Notes from Dad. The purpose of this supplemental lesson is to increase awareness of the skill set and talents of selected musicians, real and fictional. It's an independent lesson for one or for use as a group discussion. Important note: The film must be watched to complete the lesson. It has now been pulled from YouTube, instead, viewers are directed to the following site https://watchmoviez.club/movie/219980/ or visit https://www.hallmarkdrama.com/notes-from-dad
10th - 12th, Adult Education
Business, English Language Arts, Other (Performing Arts)
Investigating Dog Trainer Aptitudes: Printable Q & A Activity
Researching, identifying evaluating Career or Entrepreneurship information. This new PDF, based on primary research uncovered by telephone, is a short insightful overview of the industry and what it takes to succeed in the field. For use by an independent learner, or for real-world group discussion or debate. Content includes links to news articles and nonprofit sites. Sample: Will the student be able to uncover answers to the Q & A activity solely by using Google? After answering question
8th - 12th
Business
Changing Your Work or Career: self-employment options after injury or illness
Changing your work or career after injury illness or disability is the main theme of this sometimes irreverent alternative guide for aspiring entrepreneurs grappling with disability issues. It’s a supplemental educational ad-free guide for anyone wanting to learn about or help someone else handle physical disability and entrepreneurial issues. This resource includes more than a dozen printable charts, outlines, and checklists with tips and reference hyperlinks. Material which is not included i
11th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
English Language Arts, Health
Movie Titles Decoding Quiz and Writing Activity, Printable
25 well-known movie titles that offer fun and challenging English Language activity. Students are given a list of disguised movie titles and must use their reasoning skills and research to identify correct names. The activity includes a simple discussion question for debate and amusement. Printable worksheetsAnswer KeyFor individual or group use The material can be adapted for task cards Duration: Activity may be timed or untimed. You may like the following TpT titleMovie Lessons: Entrepreneu
9th - 12th
Other (Social Studies)
Dream and Goal Anagram: Printable Word Play Activity
This new Dream Goal PDF with printable checklist will allow you to create a personalized anagram for the words Dream and Vision. You will find more than 100 words related to Dream and Vision listed in alphabetical order. Choose favorites from the list and create an anagram on the worksheets. PDF includes:5-page worksheet...printables 2 links to dream-related topics on the Niche Creativity blog. May be used as a useful supplement to vocabulary lessons and will offer insight as to what
9th - 12th, Adult Education
English Language Arts
Freelance Online Teaching Tips for Beginners: Free Download
Sample So You Want to Become a Freelance Online Teacher. It's a supplemental lesson featuring overlooked tips, facts, and issues, and includes a hyperlinked reference list of more than 150 books, articles, Internet and offline resources with summaries. The material will help the user learn and broaden their fact-finding, critical thinking and entrepreneurial skillset. See the preview for the complete table of contents. For aspiring freelance teachers searching for solutions, the material will
11th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Business
Ethnic Studies Freebie: Racial Profiling & Social Justice in the Marketplace
This sample is for a student or group to examine a nonviolent news story about racial profiling and learn about a historical little-known social justice business during the civil rights era. Students can use writing, reading, thinking, research, or internet skills in the process. The download includes printable lessons and two answer keys. Content is from Racial Profiling in the Marketplace: An Inside look at what you should know but probably do not know about shopping and racial profiling.
9th - 12th, Adult Education
English Language Arts, Other (Social Studies), Reading
Finding Your Niche: Research and Study Guide for Aspiring Entrepreneurs
Finding Your Niche: Research Guide for Aspiring Entrepreneurs helps beginners trying to decide what business to start by focusing on pre-entrepreneurial fact gathering. There's a ton of start-up information on the internet, including a lot of questionable content, so understanding how to evaluate is key. Contents *The Million-Dollar Puzzle * Hot Industry Profiles: Present and Past Trends: from National and New York SBDC * Values... Meaning Profiles Putting the Spotlight on Your Valu
11th - 12th, Adult Education
Family Consumer Sciences
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About the store
Experience
I create supplemental lesson content on overlooked topics for adults and minors: entrepreneurial, solopreneurial, and artistic topics.
A key topic is the relationship between self-employment, medical, and social justice issues.
I have written book reviews for regional women's publications, a cover article for aspiring entrepreneurs for California Job Journal, and articles twice for websites, such as Simply Hired, and Teachers Net Gazette.
Midwest Book Review gave an excellent review for one of my book titles.
Consumers, teachers, and more than 90 public libraries, community colleges, and university libraries have bought my work through distributors, such as Ingram and Midwest Tape.
Teaching style
Q&A, project-based, inquiry, demonstration, and problem-based pathways to spark group discussion and independent learning hard copy and digital formats.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Dean's list
My own education history
128 credits earned toward a BA of which 90+ are applicable but withdrew from university program because of long-term injury. GPA 4.0.
Relevant classes completed include: The Psychology of Personal Development, Business Communications, Small Business Development, Intercultural Communication, Mass Media and Society, and Photography of Multicultural America.
Additional biographical information
Worked freelance as a remote reader for graduate psychology students with vision loss for an international university.
I recorded textbook assignments, journal articles, and other materials for the goal of advanced degree completion.
For more information, visit my multicultural resource blog at https://www.nichecreativity.com
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