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The Ever-changing Cleric
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kev7161, if your school consistently has trouble finding good qualified people, maybe they need to change they way they go about their advertising/hiring. or what they're offering? seems a lot of places, instead of improving the conditions for new hires in turn attracting better ones, or advertising differently, will simply take the easy route - lower the bar and get more dead-weight/bottom feeders signing on.
i dont know the situation everywhere but this (repeating the same mistakes over and over) seems to be a recurring theme in the esl world. |
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kev7161
Joined: 06 Feb 2004
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Location: Suzhou, China
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| I hear you Cleric and I make recommendations to them almost to the point of being an irritant. However, that's all I can do: suggest, recommend, nudge . . . I have very little power in their hiring policies. |
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Crindy
Joined: 07 Apr 2010
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| I am a certified High School English Teacher in Illinois. I went straight to China after getting my diploma and my teaching certificate. Teaching abroad is the best, most rewarding thing I have ever done! In Illinois you can pay an annual fee to renew your teaching license; I think it's only $5 or something. So that's what I am doing right now, but I don't plan on teaching in America for a whileI am a certified High School English Teacher in Illinois. I went straight to China after getting my diploma and my teaching certificate. Teaching abroad is the best, most rewarding thing I have ever done! In Illinois you can pay an annual fee to renew your teaching license; I think it's only $5 or something. So that's what I am doing right now, but I don't plan on teaching in America for a while. |
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SnoopBot
Joined: 21 Jun 2007
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Location: USA
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I believe the "working in a school to get your license" refers to student teaching during your last semester of college. This is what I did in Kansas and other teachers I know from other states followed the same procedure: finish your university's required coursework, complete practicums and student teaching, have a criminal background check, pay a fee and one is certified (in Kansas).
But yeah, my teaching certificate has long since expired during my stay in China. If I were to return home to teach (don't see that happening), I'd have to complete more coursework to get recertified.
Our school is not an international school by any stretch of the imagination, rather it has an "international" department within its walls. We are hungry for college-educated, certified teachers but can't seem to find many. We do have some teachers here that come along and do a great job without the extensive background or credentials but, sadly, we get just as many that can't seem to carry the ball and last only one school year . . . or less. |
You might want to hit the California websites that are discussing the recent massive teacher layoffs and drop an URL or E-mail for any recent laid-off teacher to look at teaching at your school.
Create a quick web page with FAQ and post some pictures of the school, I'll bet you will be flooded with hundreds of potential teacher applications and they will all be certified with experience too.
check this website for layoffs, look into the archives as Jan-Apr had a large number of lay-offs. This website will link to the original articles and in the comments sections you can start posting a link to your school.
http://www.dailyjobcuts.com/ |
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gene
Joined: 03 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 2:59 am Post subject: |
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| I just heard of a program in the US, already filled for this year, that takes college grads without teacher cert. and employ's them in rural areas where teachers are difficult to find. If any one is interested I will try and find out more. |
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