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I moved to Oregon from California with certification in special education and general education. The district said they would be interested and to make sure to give them a call as soon as I moved here. THEN NOTHING!!!!! My husband has his masters in ed and works in a call center at minimum wage. I am still unemployed. OREGON SUCKS.
I don't think most places need *art* teachers though. Art is expendable in a time of budget cuts. For example, our district just decided to let all the elementary art teachers go and have the regular classroom teachers teach art.
Even in high schools, you may find that there are many more people who want to teach art than there are positions.
Yeah schools are required by law in many states to post openings to the public, however the majority of those postings are already being filled by teachers who will be brought back and signing new contracts...or the district/shool already knows who they are hiring for the job anyway and it's all just a rat race formality of making it public. It's not easy right now to find a job in education.
There are a number of major cities like DC,Phily, Chicago, New Orleans have Teaching Fellows/Intern programs where previous education coursework is not required. Typically, you would be employed as a classroom teacher in a shortage area like math,science,special education while taking classes to become certified.
Denver has such a program as well. Competition is stiff.
I can recommend Anchorage. We just had an influx of 500 new students with the subsequent hire of 53 additional teachers. So they are not laying off teachers here. You can go on our website to search high need curriculum areas such as special education, native Spanish speakers for Spanish immersion schools, etc.
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There is usually a need for teachers also in remote bush Alaska, due to high turnover, tough living conditions, etc.
I suggested Alaska....Glad you found a job up here RDawg! Anchorage, bush, or elsewhere?
I moved to Oregon from California with certification in special education and general education. The district said they would be interested and to make sure to give them a call as soon as I moved here. THEN NOTHING!!!!! My husband has his masters in ed and works in a call center at minimum wage. I am still unemployed. OREGON SUCKS.
And this is why people say, "Don't move without a contract!" Period. I hope you researched a bit and saw that Oregon is going through some difficult times and it is extremely difficult to get a teaching position there. Besides, Oregon has plenty of highly qualified teachers rolling out of good universities (Oregon being one of the top 3 in the nation). Try to get into a few districts to sub, get your master's, get ESL endorsed, and maybe you could land something...but, in all honesty, an Oregon grad will have a much higher chance.
Georgia needs teacher, specially in Atlanta suburbs like Forsyth, Gwinnett, Cobb.
That was the case back in 06. However, since the downturn of the economy, teachers have not been retiring or re-locating. So, there are very few positions to be filled in most areas. I spoke with my Principal who has gotten several hundred applications for the next school year, but there are no openings.
I wonder if the problem in getting jobs is the lack of impressive resumes/answers to questions. I also wonder if the people that are having trouble are not doing enough legwork. I got my first teaching job 6 years ago in Phoenix. At that time Phoenix was in the middle of the housing boom and districts were expanding. It was pretty easy to get a job. My wife had wanted to move back to the Midwest for a while and we had decided to move to Wisconsin. I went on Wisconsin's teaching job website every day and applied for every teaching job that I was qualified for. I would usually get correspondence back from the district saying they had over 150 applicants for their position and had selected their candidates for an interview. I flew into Wisconsin from Phoenix and attended two teacher job fairs, in addition to applying for all open positions I saw. I did get called for one interview in La Crosse. I ended up not getting the job, but was told it was mostly due to me having to get my license in the particular subject area (Business) while one of the other applicants already had his credentials. The principal told me that normally I would not have been one of the chosen applicants but that my score on the Gallup Teacher Insight Survey was so high that they picked me based on that. My wife ended up getting a job in St. Louis and so we moved here in August. It happened too quick for me to get my Missouri Teaching license, so I've been teaching ACT Prep for a private company, while working towards getting my license to be in a classroom next year. Once again I've attended job fairs and applied for every position I've seen. In total I probably have applied of 10 positions I've seen open up. I have an interview next week for one of them. The key is getting the interview.
The point of all this is just to say that teaching is a competitive position. A principal has a finite number of positions they are looking to fill. So it becomes a numbers game. You have to pretty much apply to everything you see. And you have to be impressive when answering the questions that most districts pose to you in the application process. Every position is going to have multiple applicants. So you have to somehow stand out from the pack. You also have to attend job fairs, which give you the opportunity to meet with some of the principals face-to-face.
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Georgia- No more shortages
