Out of teaching job, what's the reality?

[stevephillips79]

In short, my teaching evaluations are all but hidden to the world. Off campus they are firewalled. On campus, you might be able to find them, but only if you know where to look.



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[stevephillips79]

I’m moving beyond my professions of faith in scholarly transparency into clear, deliberate action. And this is where I start getting funny looks, if not totally horrified ones. I’m releasing all of my teaching evaluations, complete with every single enthusiastic or blistering or apathetic student comment, to the public.

[stevephillips79]

Even though you may have never considered yourself to be a "teacher," relax! This is a piece of cake. Do not let the "teaching" label fool you. You will not be giving instructions to a class of 30 on how to conjugate verbs or diagram sentences

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by slackjaw

I agree with above poster, if you're not tied down (kids, spouse, caring for elderly parents etc.) time for a life adventure by going overseas to teach English.

Being young, having an American accent, and actual teaching credentials with experience you could work anywhere, not just Thailand/China/etc. where the requirements is being an native English speaker and having a pulse.

Start here: Dave's ESL Cafe

Good luck.

If my wife and I weren't middle aged with grade school kids we'd do it in a heartbeat.

[malamute]

Originally Posted by tired-of-mn

If I was in your situation I would go teach english overseas in a heartbeat.

That's a good suggestion. The problem in the USA is not the birth rate because the birth rate and population growth of the USA is now right up there with third world countries. Our population growth is much higher than many countries.

The only other solution would be for the OP to become very fluent in Spanish because the schools are having to recruit their teachers in Spanish speaking nations.

[brightdoglover]

Depends on where the OP lives (or would move to).
The second-largest linguist group in Massachusetts is Portuguese, not Spanish (Spanish being third). There was always a large Portuguese population due to whaling and fishing, and now there are tons of Brazilians coming in (often bypassing Boston).
I didn't know that teachers teaching bilingual ed had to speak the language of the student. For instance, I read that Los Angeles has some 78 languages spoken by students in its schools. Obviously, the majority might be Spanish-speaking, but can you have teachers who happen to speak some 78 languages? I don't know how it works with that language diversity.
Wishing the OP well.

[SJMA]

Maybe join the military, get trained, get disciplined, and take some time to grow and not blame the unknown for your situation. Three years, not licensed..that says something is missing.
The Air Force has good training and benefits.

[Olive1982]

Are you even applying for jobs outside of teaching? I mean if you have any basic computer skills you could probably land a general office type job or maybe something in the social services field. I know teaching +jobs are scarce and where I am, in certain districts, there is a freeze. Months ago I sent out my resume cold to a ton of schools. I got a telephone call from a principal last week in urgent need of a teacher (I'm assuming they had someone quit last minute and she had my resume on file from months before when I sent it to her randomly) and I'm not even certified yet. So, there are jobs there, though it's rare..