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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06
As far as teachng goes around here, you can still find an in-state job pretty easily if you are special ed, math or science. This is particuarly so with special ed. Your job is MUCH more secure if you're in these areas (you're the last people the district wants to lay off).
Now if you are music, foreign language, English, or history, you're going to have a hard time finding something in-state.
My point is that every state is in a different situation and being open to relocation helps a lot.
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Yeah I'm up for going wherever the job is, no matter how far. I figure I might as well before I get married and have strong ties to the community. It's a good time to expand my horizons...well in a year and a half.
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Originally Posted by Senusret I
Most of my friend who wanted to become teachers became teachers also. None have been subject to layoffs. All depends on where you're willing to go. The way I see it is if you're willing to go with the program of whatever the Superintendent or Chancellor is talking about, you've got a paycheck and job security.
I think you have the right attitude about it.
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That's been the experience of my friends, too, so I don't see any point in assuming I can't get a job.
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Originally Posted by lovespink88
My two cents on teaching (I'm not an expert, but know a lot as it is my fiance's desired profession):
Co-sign with Dee, I've heard it's hard for teachers everywhere. Fiance graduated with a history & secondary education degree. I'm not sure of the amount of applications he's done but it's been a lot. Anyways, he only had one interview, but he did not get an offer there.
He's applied to jobs in state and out of state, as far as Louisiana. We were both willing and able to relocate if he got a teaching job in another state, but even then, he still couldn't find anything. So I'd stay it's still difficult even though we were willing to go where there were jobs.
Also, in his major (specifically history & secondary ed., not just one or the other) there were 40 graduates this year. Last thing I heard from him was that 3 of those 40 had teaching jobs and 2 were out of the country.
I'm very thankful that he was able to find a job in education (although not at a high school) that can offer him almost full time hours and fairly good pay. And because it's only 30 hours per week he still has time to take classes to get his science endorsements, which he will be done with by next spring.
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That's not been the experience my friends had...I don't personally know that many people who have graduated this year (from the same program I will be attending) but I do know around 15 of them and I know at least 10 are employed as middle or high school teachers currently, and only one of those had to go somewhere farther than a state away. Of course I don't know how many schools they applied to, but hey, they're working. A few other friends from high school were hired as teachers last year at various locations, some out of state and some in. There is only one math and one special ed teacher out of that bunch. I know one is not employed as a teacher, but she told me she wasn't looking any farther than 30 minutes from where she and her husband live because he badly wants to keep the job he currently has. It must just depend on the situation.