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My husband and I are thinking of moving our family to the Syracuse, NY or Rochester, NY area. I am finishing up college here in CA and will have my teaching credential in Elementary Education. What is the teaching environment like for jobs in your area? Any clues or hints where to start networking? I can not find a salary schedule for any of the school districts. Where can I find the pay scale in your area for teachers? How is your budget shortfall doing? Our economy is really bad here in CA. I need somewhere to start new with our family with the hope and prospect for jobs. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks for your help!
My husband and I are thinking of moving our family to the Syracuse, NY or Rochester, NY area. I am finishing up college here in CA and will have my teaching credential in Elementary Education. What is the teaching environment like for jobs in your area? Any clues or hints where to start networking? I can not find a salary schedule for any of the school districts. Where can I find the pay scale in your area for teachers? How is your budget shortfall doing? Our economy is really bad here in CA. I need somewhere to start new with our family with the hope and prospect for jobs. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks for your help!
I agree that it is very difficult to get a job teaching in Rochester...especially if you are not from around here. There are a lot of teaching colleges around here that produce a surplus of students, many of whom end up moving to growing places like the Carolinas and Arizona.
I have a teaching cert and most of teaching friends who are going back after having kids are finding it tough. My cousin just graduated a year ago with amazing grades, super rec. from principals and coop teachers.... top of her class!!!!! she could only find a job as a TA!!!! Don't think you can come here to teach and jump right into a job. It isn't going to happen. Those baby boomers are holding onto their positions pretty tight right now as their spouses are losing their 40lk's and the stock market is taking a beating.... nobody is retiring and school districts are cutting back and not hiring.... it is a bad time to be a teacher..... Colleges are farming out new teachers wide eyed with the idea they are going to get a teaching job ASAP.... they are all moving south or out to Las Vegas.... it isn't happening here. Sorry to be so blunt and most people who know me on here know I am the one with the rose colored glasses.... but on this topic.... it is pretty bad....
I am from Roch, subbed for three years and finally moved to Las Vegas and now teach sp ed. Go to www.teachers.net At this site you can chat with teachers from every state. You should be able to get info on the job market from each state. If you have sp ed, come to Vegas, you will get hired. Good Luck.
In Upstate New York it is not uncommon to have hundreds of applicantsa for each position, and many of these jobs are already spioken for when they're posted. They interview for show. I applied for a social studies position and there were 300 people vying for a 7th grade postion in a rural county south of Albany. That's what you're up against.
I have heard it's easy to get work as a substitute teacher. I know 4 people who sub (or used to), including one of my tenants who just got a job as a sub. It's not steady work and you never know what you're going to teach, but it's teaching...
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