San Antonio offers best chance of landing EDUCATION JOBS in 2010-2011? (Houston: apartment, home)

[pobre]

Not ESL, or ELL. You would need to be bilingual to teach a biliingual or dual language class.

[zhugeliang1]

So what's the difference between ESL and a bilingual/dual language class? For ESL you're just teaching all about the English language, right? I think ESL is federally mandated, like special ed.

[pobre]

ESL and ELL are classes in English using techniques and support for second language learners. A bilingual class is conducted partly in English, partly in student's primary language, with the goal of English acquisition. A dual language class is conducted partly in English, partly in another language-students are a mix of English only and "X" language only...goal is for both types of students to gain second language proficiency at the same time (hence the dual).

A student may be placed in either an ESL/ELL or bilingual class, dependent on proficiency, and parental agreement.

[wCat]

Originally Posted by zhugeliang1

But don't you have to be bilingual in Spanish to teach ESL?

No.

oops....sorry...missing the second page! Thank you Pobre, for the great explanation.

[TXtrkgrl]

I heard that NISD rec'd 20,000 teacher applications last year.

[zhugeliang1]

Jeez, that's a lot of applications. But why is Northside growing?

[TXtrkgrl]

Originally Posted by zhugeliang1

Jeez, that's a lot of applications. But why is Northside growing?

It's due to the NW side growing. Look at the boundary map of NISD and you will see there is a huge amount of undeveloped land.
Sadly that land is being developed.

Here's a map.
http://www.nisd.net/pdf/maps/distmap0910.pdf


Re: the applications; yes, that is a lot of apps but of the 20K only about 6000 +/- are hired. Thats a LOT of people looking for teaching jobs.

[FCF's Wife]

Originally Posted by TXtrkgrl

It's due to the NW side growing. Look at the boundary map of NISD and you will see there is a huge amount of undeveloped land.
Sadly that land is being developed.

Here's a map.
http://www.nisd.net/pdf/maps/distmap0910.pdf


Re: the applications; yes, that is a lot of apps but of the 20K only about 6000 +/- are hired. Thats a LOT of people looking for teaching jobs.

I bet a lot is due to the "I hear that teachers are in demand in SA" that we see every year on this board. Don't know where they're "hearing" it from.

[zhugeliang1]

I think maybe because they know the teacher's salaries here are high so they think San Antonio is really wanting teachers.

[ged_782]

Originally Posted by zhugeliang1

I think maybe because they know the teacher's salaries here are high so they think San Antonio is really wanting teachers.

I think teacher salaries in the San Antonio area are high, relative to typical private-sector salaries in the area.