Seeking a Teaching Job

[sceniczip]

Please don't come to Ohio

I'll be out searching for a teaching job next year and all of my professors talk about NC and Texas if we can't find a job here.

[epchick]

I don't know why people always say to go to Texas.....people here are getting laid off just as much as other places.

I'm sorry to hear about you being surplussed (that is what we call it here) Thetagirl. Do you all not have courtesies for surplussed teachers? Like here if a teacher is surplussed (also called an involuntary transfer) they are guaranteed a position at a school w/ an opening. If they don't find a job, then there are placed somewhere (like maybe in the bookroom of a school) and they keep their teacher salary.

I'm in the same boat, looking for a job. The only bad thing is i'm not a contracted teacher, so I have to wait for all the surplussed teachers to find a job before I can get interviewed/hired for an open position.

[ree-Xi]

I have had friends who worked in inner-city and schools with high-risk student populations, often in exchange for forgiveness of school loans. Whether or not that is an issue (loans), there are teacher shortages in these type of schools. Another place to look are private schools (religious or otherwise), but the religious-based schools are typically lower paying.

I also have friends in New England whose schools have cut the number of classrooms in half, eliminated non-academic programs, and increased the number of subjects and class periods that middle-school teachers must teach (versus teaching a fewer number subjects/classes per day).

Areas that are in dire shortage in many districts are teachers with special education or specialized skills/experience (occupational, speech, hearing, language impaired, to list a few), as well as in the typical subject areas.

Try this list for examples of shortage areas (geographic and focus):

http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/lis.../tsa.html#list

(The list goes through 2011 but I am sure that there are other similar lists. The fact that you are willing to move might give you an advantage.)

Good luck! Teachers and nurses are two of the most important jobs in the world, yet the pay, benefits and respect is rarely commensurate.

[groovypq]

Originally Posted by sceniczip

Please don't come to Ohio

I'll be out searching for a teaching job next year and all of my professors talk about NC and Texas if we can't find a job here.

I have a friend who's been looking for teaching jobs in NC for a couple years now, and no luck. She's moving back to NY in a month, hoping for better luck there.

[epchick]

Originally Posted by groovypq

I have a friend who's been looking for teaching jobs in NC for a couple years now, and no luck. She's moving back to NY in a month, hoping for better luck there.

IDK how much luck she's gonna have in NY. Word is here that around 12K teachers were laid off, with some more cuts coming. In fact, the principal at the school i'm at now was sent to NY as one of the representatives of our school district to interview 'displaced' teachers. The situation in NY is pretty bad from what I understand.

Good luck to your friend though, you never know what might happen. She might be one of the lucky ones to land a job for next school year.

[sceniczip]

It's a sad time for a teacher to be looking for a job I think.