What is Risk-Taker

This chapter educates readers on the various characteristics of teacherpreneurs that are critical to the teacherpreneur's success. These characteristics include being ethical, passionate, creative, resourceful, empathetic, persistent, flexible, and self-motivated. In addition, teacherpreneurs are visionaries, risk-takers, networkers, advocates, and leaders/mentors. This chapter describes the components that fit within each of these primary characteristics and provides examples from literature. All teacherpreneurs will exhibit, to some degree, the characteristics described in this chapter. These characteristics form the foundation upon which a teacherpreneur's entire teaching philosophy is built and reflect a commitment to the notion that each and every student can learn if properly instructed.