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If you are a teacher, what is the availability like in your area? I know teaching jobs are very hard to get nowadays pretty much anywhere. Dh and I are looking to relocate and i am having a difficult time finding teaching opportunities ANYWHERE
Re: teachers.....
It depends on your license in our area. If you want to teach middle or high you really need to have at least two endorsement areas.
Elementary jobs are hard to come by. You need to know someone.
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I teach HS in Massachusetts. I've taught in public school for the past 6 years.
The Mass. market is tough but districts are always hiring. We have some of the best schools in the country with an aging teacher population so retirements often free up teacher space.
The eastern part of the state pays pretty well compared to other parts of the country but we also have a VERY high cost of living so those things are all relative.
Be prepared though... for every HS job posted at my school, there are at least 100 applications. I imagine it higher at the lower levels.
Mass. requires teachers hold a Master's Degree (after teaching for 5 years) along with a BA in their field and have the appropriate licensure earned through state exams and completing a teacher prep program. Often those programs run concurrently with your Master's program.
Mass. schools also love to hire teacher's with strong resumes and educational background. Like any job... the better undergrad and grad you completed, the more likely you are to get a good job.
If you are in fact interested, I recommend checking out http://www.doe.mass.edu/ for information on how to become licensed in Mass.
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I also teach high school in MA. My district has had cutbacks for so long that we're running at a barebones level right now. We had the opportunity to hire 2 new teachers last year (English and History). Over 600 resumes were submitted for each position! It's tough competition.
Even worse is the search at the elementary level. Those jobs are nearly impossible to get.
I feel like the only types of openings every year are for Special Ed. There are jobs open, but that means people are moving on to something else. It seems like a high turnover area.
It is primarily because of all the additional paperwork and legal responsibilities. However, if you like the field, in my area you're pretty much immune from layoffs.
I'm in LA.
Again, it depends on where you live in these areas... NC cut around 2,500 positions this year, with 1/3 of those being teaching positions. Winston Salem has an especially tough market for teachers right now...
In NW Ohio there are rarely openings in math or science let alone all of the other fields, about the only consistent openings you see are in special ed. I teach physics which is supposed to be a field that lacks teachers, but around here there are plenty.
That being said, the big city schools tend to hire all kinds of teachers every year, but that is because they generally have a high turnover rate, not because they need more staff. I also know in a lot of larger districts you might get hired, but you won't know what you are assigned to teach until later.
One of my students told me a few semesters ago that Winston-Salem wasn't even taking any more substitute applications. I don't know if that situation has changed at all.
I'm in SC now. There aren't any openings in my city/county for what I want to teach: high school science. The Governor's school for math and science is hiring for a lot of positions. I was all excited until I saw it's over an hour from where I live.
As far as I know, it has not changed. I couldn't get on the list (I have a music education degree, but love to sub anything). I'm now working in facility management (completely happy in my job, but feel like I'm paying for student loans that are pretty much wasted).