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Are there any particular states hiring more for ESL?
I will obtain a bachelors of social work in December. I will be interning as an ESL teacher for 4 months.
You might even need to look at specific areas within a state. For example, Northern VA districts will need more compared to many other parts of the state due to the demographics. I just counted 34 ESOL positions advertised on my district's vacancy list, but other parts of VA won't have as big of a need.
We just hired two ENL teachers in my district here in NY. We went from 2 to 4 in a span of two years. NY has some new laws that were just enacted that has increased the service delivery time to this population.
Depends where you are. For instance, in CT they are trying to get more classroom teachers 'trained' or endorsed in ESL, thus cutting the need for ESL specific teachers. In Florida, this also seems to be the case, and when I was job searching last year (far and wide) this seemed to be true in Colorado and Texas, too. Yes, there is still a need for some ESL teachers in those states, but they seem to be more 'resource' teachers, or in school with low incidence ESL, so you cover the whole school or multiple schools.
After 12 years of teaching ESL K-12 I got certified in elementary ed so I could just teach a regular classroom. I got tired of being looked at as a 'less than' teacher, or overpaid instructional aide, or professional test proctor! Lots of districts pay lip service to the need for ESL (treating it like a 'remedial' program) and I truly think that if they had their way, they wouldn't have ESL teachers at all...it's just the law requires it, so they do it.
Just so you know, a bachelor's in social work won't help you get ESL certified. In a lot of states, unless you are already certified in another field and get an add-on endorsement, you need a degree and certification in ESL to teach in public schools
My district in Florida, requires most, if not all, teachers to become ESL certified. They have an in-service program that you need to participate in to remain employed with them. The demand really depends on where you are in the country due to the number of people entering the country that do not know the English language.
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