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I was wondering how difficult it is to get a teaching job in Buffalo?
I know anywhere up North it's almost impossible with no experience, but how about with 3-5 years of experience? Is a Masters a requirement in New York?
How about 18 years in the environmental field and certified in secondary sciences and couldn't find a job. If your young your have a better chance than someone over 40.
Districts like you if you are a local. Outside of that, a few years experience is helpful and having a Masters pays off -- shows commitment (yes, it is necessary in 3 years in NY teaching for complete state certification -- occasionally, they shove it from 3 to 5 and back ).
I started right out of school and taught 30 years -- in Buffalo. At that time, it was a nice district but went downhill as the city demographics changed. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
If they have an opening in your field and you interview well, a district will hire you. It doesn't mean you will be there after your 3rd year ( tenure year ). Expect to work youre rear off to get in a good district. Most of us who were hired in the big boom of the late 60s/early 70s are retired or retiring.... jobs are there. You just need to find them.
Also, keep sending the resume in -- lots of districts only keep them for 6 mos or so. Add to that, lots of people who interview well are rotten at teaching, there are jobs midyear and also for people on leave. Be persistent.
Also, remember that Buffalo is full of colleges for education majors.... the area is not going far to look for people, like the southwest and south are.
My wife has an elementary ed degree (masters). graduated with honors, was student teacher of the year at canisus and is still unemployed after two years. she has applied for over one hundred jobs and was granted interviews for probably ten. she was offered maybe three and the pay was about 12 dollars an hour, no NYS teachers retirement. Good luck. she is as good a candidate as you will find for two hundred miles and she isnt working.
My wife has an elementary ed degree (masters). graduated with honors, was student teacher of the year at canisus and is still unemployed after two years. she has applied for over one hundred jobs and was granted interviews for probably ten. she was offered maybe three and the pay was about 12 dollars an hour, no NYS teachers retirement. Good luck. she is as good a candidate as you will find for two hundred miles and she isnt working.
I didn't say the master's should come before the job. That smells to administrators of "professional student".
Once you get the master's degree you immediately are overqualified for any job at step one ( first year job). Financially, why should a district hire you if you are going to cost them significantly more than a person right out of college with just a bachelor's? Get the job first, work and then get the master's. It makes a difference in hiring.
Options: move to the south or west where the pay stinks and cost of living is higher, or keep at it until someone hires her. She even has the option of applying to Buffalo... if you can last a few years in the city ( yes, it is NYSTRS ), many districts will hire you.
She could also apply and indicate ONLY the bachelors. If hired, then she could add the additional degree later. (I know lots of peopel who have done it)
Why would someone fresh out of school not be qualified. Older teachers are stuck in older ways. There are a multitude of new techniques and fresh ideas that a new young teacher can offer.
I've told her she might be over qualified, on face value it seems obsurd but it is probably quite true.
How about having someone who is qualified. Not always paying someone fresh out of school.
Fresh out of school does not mean unqualified. You get basic certification and a few years to do a Master's, provided you went through a BSEd program or other 4 year degree program the State Ed. Dept. grants certification for. When you find an unqualified person in a position, you can report it to State Dept. of Education.
However, a district can legally hire an "unqualified" (that means UNCERTIFIED) teacher when they cannot find one with NY certification in the field.
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