Teacher-Author

On Friday morning, I woke-up, took a shower, got dressed, and my phone buzzed.  I don't know what I thought it was, because no one messages me that early in the morning... but what I saw on the screen definitely wasn't what I was expecting.

I made a sale!!!

Around New Year's, I set-up my Teachers-Pay-Teachers (Tpt) shop.  ( A website where teachers can upload and sell resources for other teachers, homeschooling parents, etc... to download and use.)  I've been aiming for a niche of "studying-through-game-play", and creating review games that are fun, functional, and flexible.  

One of the games is called Vocab. Victory! and to play, teachers need a stack of cards with vocabulary words.  I offer a customizable (is that a word?) download where teachers can make their own cards. (My most popular download because it's currently FREE...)

However, I'm also working on creating some pre-generated card packs with some of the vocabulary words we use in my Science classes.

And the pack for the Energy Force & Motion unit sold!

This is definitely a product I had been underestimating.  Vocabulary cards are something so flexible, (especially when you're playing review games!) but also so time-consuming, I think I'm going to make more of an effort to carry a larger variety of these cards in my shop.

It's a small sale, and so far still the only one I've gotten, but it's still such an exciting and validating feeling to think that there is someone, somewhere, who saw enough value in my work as a teacher-author to pay me for it.

The term "teacher-author" is one I'd never heard of before joining the Tpt community- but it's a title I'm proud to carry.  I'm so anxious to see where this journey will take me, and even though I've only sold one small product, it's the first small step down a new path!

What are some vocabulary cards you or your child/students would find useful?