Attention teachers!! Was it hard for you to get a job when you graduated? And where are you located ?
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I think it depends on the location. I am not a teacher. I live in upstate NY. But, at the start of the school year here…there was a lot of districts still with openings that they were trying to fill. One district was having a job fair 2 weeks prior trying to fill a lot of positions. NY is a good state for teachers. They are paid well. A Masters degree is required to teach here.
No but I’m special ed so I have my pickings anywhere tbh. I’ve gotten offers from all over the country both public and private but I’m in MD
There are teacher shortages in many places for a variety of reasons. I’ve not heard of people having trouble finding positions, but I’m also in MD.
I graduated in December (2017), so I thought for sure I'd be a sub for the rest of the year since teachers are typically hired for beginning of school year. Nope. Right after finishing student teaching, I had a full time position. I moved and never had trouble finding a job. I'm a SAHM now, but was a high school English teacher before. Maybe that's why it was easier for me, not sure about lower levels.
This is interesting. Sounds like a lot of people from Maryland are saying there’s a lot of opportunity there. I have also been told high school and middle school STEM subjects are more in demand. My current degree is BA of elementary education so k-5
@Dory I work at the university and they’re seeing an even higher shortage in people going into secondary and SPED. Even with our sped program being dual cert with elementary ed 95% of the SPED students plan to be gen ed k-5 teachers
@Daija I’ve definitely heard sped has the most opportunities. That’s good to know!
@Dory yup I always recommend people go that route if wanting to teach elementary or at least get your masters with something sped related as a safety net
ESOL is another high need area as well.
It’s super hard now to get a job outside of education though 😒
@GMF what is ESOL?
@dory English for speakers of other languages. Sorry, figured you’d know the acronym working in education.
We call it EL (English learners) or ELL (English language learners) but I do know about that!
@Dory yeah it varies from place to place what acronyms are used haha. The students themselves are called MLs in my district for multilingual learners. They shifted to that to be more inclusive to home languages or additional languages students know. But then they still use esol to refer to the subject itself just to make things confusing! So I’m an esol teacher but I teach MLs.
It was quite easy for me. My district is a large urban district and is always looking for teachers. It’s a tough job but we are extremely well compensated and the health insurance is out of this world. I make twice what your average teacher makes. My online mom friend in another state was having a very hard time finding a job, she always got interviews and they would go with the other older more experienced candidate. I convinced her to move to my state and come work at my district. She’s been here 3 years with no plans of leaving.