By Liam Alexander
As well as my normal job, I'm currently doing course to qualify as an English teacher to non-English speakers. Although I don't plan on being a full-time teacher for long, it's something I want to do for many years part time. I get a huge sense of satisfaction from helping and teaching people, amongst other things.
But I digress, what I really wanted to talk about now is the participation and pass rate of this course compared, to say, an internet marketing course.
My English teachers course costs $3000, takes about 160 hours to complete, will allow me to earn (at most) $50,000 a year. You know what the pass rate for this course is? Over 95% A couple of years ago I took an internet marketing course that cost $3000, theoretically could have allowed me to earn a 6 figure annual salary, would have taken about 60 hours to do properly. How many hours did I put into it? Probably about 20. The number of people who successfully completed the course? I would guess less than 50%.
So whats the difference? Why the higher work and completion rate for the course that earns less? Its simple - people generally do better when faced with constant monitoring and feedback. Take that away, and it's a LOT harder to complete. You have to motivate yourself. You don't necessarily have the comraderie with fellow students.
There are so many people who excel and advance in school, in the military - where they are placed inside an achievement structure - but don't do so well once they leave this structure. Thus far, I am one of them.
Another thing I notice is that I am MUCH more motivated to do other things no I'm doing my course. Rather than slow down a bit because I am doing a full-time job and a part time course, I find myself wanting to do more and more things (like this blog)without having to motivate myself. Clearly success breeds success :)
Out of the dozens and dozens of wealth creation and personal development courses that are out there, I haven't seen any that have a lot of structure. For example repeated grading of work, feedback and interaction with fellow pupils.I get the feeling were somebody (like me perhaps one day?) to create one with more structure could build a much higher student success rate. Not only benefiting the students and helping them more, but massively helping the career of the teacher too. hmmm....
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