Going self employed can seem a daunting prospect. There’s funding to get the business off the ground, accounting and record keeping and insurance to consider. Add to that no more annual leave, sick pay or other benefits you may have enjoyed as an employee. All this before you’ve even got to work!

That’s all the negativity out of the way lets consider the positives. You’re your own boss and can organise your own time. This makes a particularly attractive prospect if you have children but don’t forget, you need to keep your customers happy. You need to be self motivated and committed to the business or it won’t do well.

It can be tough starting out but the potential to grow your business if you work hard can pay off well in the end. You’ll get great job satisfaction as you are the benefactor of your hard work.

The concept of cover supervisor jobs is fairly new in the field of education so a lot of people are not yet familiar with regards to how it works and who are qualified to fill the jobs. In the simplest of terms, being a cover supervisor is basically a form of substitute teaching. However, unlike a substitute teacher, a cover supervisor is widely considered to be part of the non-teaching staff so he or she is only there to supervise the class. In a nutshell, you are in the classroom to make sure that the class is in order and that the students are doing whatever tasks they were assigned or required to finish. For a further understanding of the concept, below are four things you should know about it.

1) You don’t teach the students, you simply supervise them. The main reason why schools hire cover supervisors is to free up time for their teaching staff so that they can spend more time on planning and preparing lessons, resources, and new policies for their students. The concept has seen wide and popular use in the United Kingdom in recent years. In fact, almost all secondary schools in the country engage cover supervisors in one way or another. (more…)