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EulerTeacher uses Euler diagrams to teach foreign language vocabulary

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StartupRealities No 168 EulerTeacher is a language school franchise and foreign language textbook publisher which uses Euler diagrams to visualise vocabulary and thus facilitate foreign language teaching and learning. Euler diagrams are particularly helpful in highlighting to students the nuances of groups of synonyms, e.g. look, watch, stare and gaze; and in teaching groups of concepts, e.g. mammals, birds, fruit and vegetables. CEO QUOTE " Our students call us, or rather mispronounce, our name EulerTeacher as #YouLearnTeacher! - which is quite a compliment for our efforts to make foreign language learning easier and more accessible. " - said EulerTeacher founder and CEO Eulalia Teacer . Euler diagram for the British Isles (image source: Wikipedia )

PractitionersTeach lists executives interested in teaching

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StartupRealities No 113 PractitionersTeach is an online directory of corporate executives, managers and other professionals who have an interest in teaching at university or in secondary education and have either experience in teaching or a teaching certificate. Experienced practitioners are commonly used to teach on MBA programmes and in acting courses, for example, but are starting to become more common outside the business school and drama department. The company has its own teaching certification, consisting of an online course and an exam. The directory also has a depository of links to videos and podcasts of teaching materials by practitioners, including YouTube videos and TED talks. CEO QUOTE "We create a marketplace, a two-sided network. On the one side there are all those gifted and experienced people who are interested in teaching and developing the talent of the next generation. On the other side are all the education institutions, which desperately need current an...

HomeWithChrome gives homeless people housing and laptops

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StartupRealities No 77 HomeWithChrome is a charity that finds homes and employment for homeless people by giving them container housing  to live in and Chromebook laptops connected to the Internet to work on. Typically the jobs available via HomeWithChrome are teaching English via video conference or managing social media accounts. CEO QUOTE "We provide a roof, be it a flat one: a comfortable home that previously homeless people can really call home. And we give them jobs that are well within their abilities," said company founder and CEO Homer Chromos. Container housing (image source: Wikipedia ) See also:  https://startuprealities.blogspot.com/2020/03/polychromehome-builds-sustainable-mini-houses.html

IndustryInsideOut teaches COOs the ropes of a sector

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StartupRealities No 59 IndustryInsideOut is an online education company that produces training courses on the operations and finance models of different industries and sectors with the aim of training entrepreneurs and potential COOs, CFOs and CEOs. The courses of the company allow people interested in a given industry (e.g. airlines or concrete production or art galleries) to gain basic or more in-depth knowledge of all operational aspects of the sector so that they can start running a business in the given field. CEO QUOTE "How many hairdressers own the business they work in? The answer is just a few. What stops the rest from setting up shop themselves? The answer is the daunting uncertainty of running a business. Here is where we step in to help. Our online course: The Hair and Barber Salon IndustryInsideOut can give all these skillful people the wherewithal to run their own business. We promote entrepreneurship and empower people: in this sector and in several hundred oth...