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You need to expand your job skills. Get certified through your STEP program in Elementary Ed, but take enough elective courses in a subject area that you can also have a 7-12 endorsement.
Hiring areas include Science, TESOL, Foreign Language, and Math.
Still your odds of getting a job are very very small as you won't have experience.
Student teach in a BIG DISTRICT so that there is more turnover, and thus more chance of you being there when they are hiring.
Frankly though, I would not advise to stay in the field of education if your end goal is to teach on LI. Slim to none will get jobs.
I know of 3 women who have teaching certificates and experience substituting but still can't find teaching jobs on Long Island. Have a fallback career option.
127 school districts, probably 8 or so on average per district.
1000 or so Kindergarten teachers on LI. Average career is probably something absurd like 32 years.
So about 31 turnovers per year on average. Obviously if a hiring boom happened in the 90s (which it did) you'd have far more retiring in 2020 to offset the average. The turnover rate is very low right now.
31 positions amongst how many applicants?
Let's say the amount of aspiring Kindergarten teachers, less the amount from last year minus the 31 or so who will find positions.
To me it seems like 31 hires would be a lot, and I know that those numbers aren't being hired- where am I off?
I know literally a dozen teachers in the 22-30 age group, and basically, you need to choose between staying on LI or staying with your chosen age group/subject. My friends who are teaching the subject and age they want to teach moved out of state; those who are teaching on LI are teaching special education (and of the 4 I know with LI special ed jobs, three are at BOCES). I also know two people who found jobs in their subject area in NYC and were able to stay on LI, but the city market is getting more crowded as people give up on LI and look west, and as the city cuts schools in favor of charters.
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