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newinSeoul
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| +5 is so warm compared to -20 C. with tons of snow. But, I definitely understand if you are living in the tropics, that anything below +5 could be freezing!! I'm jealus! |
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samizinha
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Location: Vacalandia
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In Mexico, you can find hockey games at the betting bars named Caliente. You tell them when you want to see the game, and minutes before it starts they will try to tap into an illegal chanel for you  It's full of drug lords and seedy men, but it's one way to catch a game! |
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Jetgirly
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There are more jobs in the Toronto surrounding area, and up north in Alberta, but not too many jobs. The competition is strong, and some of the substitute teaching lists are full, and they are now capping them.
Once you get a job, then there are ton of other problems with the school system. I have friends teaching in Toronto full-time, and they say that there is no support at all for first year teachers. The schools are underfunded, and she said she is so burnt out. The kids have no respect/discipline towards the teacher and teacher has no support. |
I'm a post-degree Ed student in southern Alberta. My university produces about 300 B.Ed grads each year; more than 90% are hired by either the public or Catholic school board for the September after they graduate. As most of us have six years of university upon graduation, the local starting salary is $51,500.
If you sit on your butt drinking beer in the campus bar for two years, you'll probably have a rough time finding a job when you graduate. I go to school staff meetings, district specialist meetings, province-wide conferences and professional development events. I've got a desk drawer full of phone numbers from professionals who I've met at these events who say either, "Call me when you start looking for jobs and I'll put in a good word with my district" or "Call me when you start teaching if there's anything I can help you out with." I'm totally confident that I'll have a great support system in place when I graduate.
As with any career, you have to be willing to a) make an effort to get your name out there and b) go where the jobs are. If you're willing to do that, you should have no problem finding a job in a Canadian K-12 school. |
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GambateBingBangBOOM
Joined: 04 Nov 2003
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:02 am Post subject: |
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| Jetgirly wrote: |
I'm a post-degree Ed student in southern Alberta. My university produces about 300 B.Ed grads each year; more than 90% are hired by either the public or Catholic school board for the September after they graduate. As most of us have six years of university upon graduation, the local starting salary is $51,500. |
That's about $10,000 - $15,000 more than the starting wage for k-12 teachers in Ontario. Alberta has more than 300 new full time teaching postions coming available every year (even more, assuming that yours isn't the only university churning out k-12 teachers)? Are most of the teachers retiring? Or are many of them burining out after a couple of years, and so they are being replaced with more newbies who in turn are burining out?
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As with any career, you have to be willing to a) make an effort to get your name out there and b) go where the jobs are. If you're willing to do that, you should have no problem finding a job in a Canadian K-12 school. |
But you only get access to even applying to 50% of the jobs if you aren't a practicing Catholic in Ontario (in fact it's 50% of the schools, but probably far less than 50% of the jobs- the Catholic School boards are where most of the jobs are in Ontario). There are tonnes of non-Catholics with B.Ed in Ontario who are looking for jobs, but they aren't allowed in the Catholic system. |
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Jetgirly
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| Well, it shouldn't exactly come as a shock to them upon graduation to find that there are two school boards. I'm also not eligible to work in the Catholic school system (which we have in Alberta as well), but I'm not concerned. When I decided to go into Education, I knew I was going to have to be prepared to go where the jobs are. Someone who can't figure that out probably doesn't belong in a classroom in the first place. |
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