TpT is the world's first and biggest online open marketplace where teachers connect and share, buy, and sell original educational materials.
Our community of over 4 million teachers has generated almost $150 million in materials sold, with several star teacher-authors earning hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars.
That process of drinking the soup and learning what to swallow and what to spit out is an incredible learning experience. That is a skill and comes from trial and error, reading everything, and trying things. And you are training yourself in that process and mindset of learning on your own.
Agree though that learning best practices is difficult without some guidance and working with others.
That is the point of this post, to get them over the fear, to give them the confidence to do it.
Having a personal tutor can accelerate the learning process dramatically. Even if you can teach yourself, you can learn faster if someone just tells you the answer. But, you can also just do it. And, the process will teach you the benefits of being precise with your searches and that if you know to use the work "toggle" rather than "switch back and forth", you'll get to the answer faster next time (though, you'll get to it both ways and you'll learn a lot while you're reading).
I was fortunate enough to have great engineers accelerate my learning but I also did a lot on my own and that process gave me a deeper understanding and taught me the right mindset to now continue improving on my own forever.
Empowering teachers to empower others
TpT is the world's first and biggest online open marketplace where teachers connect and share, buy, and sell original educational materials.
Our community of over 4 million teachers has generated almost $150 million in materials sold, with several star teacher-authors earning hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars.
We're hiring in every area, including developers and designers: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Careers
If you want to understand us and our community, this Facebook post says it all: https://www.facebook.com/TeachersPayTeachers/posts/101529499...
Here's a recent story about us on public radio: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/education/learningcurve/te...