Why so many job postings ---- if most teachers aren't finding jobs? (business, license)
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Do they typically pay the in-demand math and science teachers more or it the same deal?
In SD they pay the math and science teachers the same as jumping jack teachers (PE) which of course to a rational thinking person makes no sense at all.
Your pay is all based on years taught total, years taught at your current school, masters degree attained, and additional schooling on top of the current degree held (bachelors, masters, doctorate). The only place where wages are tiered based on the difficulty of the position and time spent seems to be in the extracurriculars.
Quality of the teacher doesn't matter. If that were a factor, then of course you run into the problem of determining who is a good teacher and who isn't (which is constantly bantered about on other threads).
I'd like to know what majors are guaranteed a job at graduation? Is it supposed to be the colleges job to only allow people to major in something where they will for sure be employed in upon graduation? My daughter graduated three years ago and has had a teaching job every year but we knew going in that there was a good possibility that she would be subbing or out of work when she was done.
Why is teaching any different then any other career?
As of the moment, school speech therapists and OT's are almost not available. We head hunted one from Florida to PA, but she left in a year because some other place offered to pay her more.
Yeah right about the college's job. Not likely.
Majors in math or physics with a minor in secondary education are almost guaranteed a job at the moment.
Even the special services stuff isn't a guarantee in the current economy.
My brother got a job in a different state than where he and his speech-language pathologist wife have been living and working for the past five years. She's been looking for something comparable to her school SLP gig in the new state since he took the job several months ago, but prospects are slim. So right now, they're living in two different states, renting two different homes, and seeing one another on the weekends. Mid-school year is a tough time to be looking, of course, but the real issue is all the positions that are being cut for the next year due to state budgetary issues.
Even the special services stuff isn't a guarantee in the current economy.
My brother got a job in a different state than where he and his speech-language pathologist wife have been living and working for the past five years. She's been looking for something comparable to her school SLP gig in the new state since he took the job several months ago, but prospects are slim. So right now, they're living in two different states, renting two different homes, and seeing one another on the weekends. Mid-school year is a tough time to be looking, of course, but the real issue is all the positions that are being cut for the next year due to state budgetary issues.
Even math and science teachers are having trouble finding work in this economy. A former coworker of mine gave up looking for a math teaching job and just decided to go back to school. She said that it is just too hard to find a math teaching job.
Do they typically pay the in-demand math and science teachers more or it the same deal?
I make less than many of the other teachers at the school. 1) I didn't realize that you need to negotiate your starting wage at a charter school (thought they had a stepped pay scale like public schools do.) and 2) since I teach lab based classes, I don't have time to do things like coach or proctor the after school credit recovery program for extra pay.
I won't find out if I have a job next year until June 11th. EEK!
So true. Three SPED teachers at my school have already been notified that they're RIF'd for next year.
This is one of the times I'm thankful that I work for a private special ed school that's not dependent upon state funding...there are sacrifices, and I'd earn more working in public school, but I don't have to worry about state funding. With the economy as it is, I was worried that since so many of our families are private-pay, we'd lose students (and therefore teachers) due to parents losing jobs and other financial constraints, etc. But people do seem to find a way to drum up the money for their profoundly disabled kids, and that hasn't really happened. We are full to capacity despite the not insignificant expense of private, specialized ed.
Even math and science teachers are having trouble finding work in this economy. A former coworker of mine gave up looking for a math teaching job and just decided to go back to school. She said that it is just too hard to find a math teaching job.
It does depend on where to look. Looking in California or in any state where their budget problems are of epic proportions won't work. You do have to be willing to move to a place that is advertising such a position.
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