Get a Teaching Job NOW

There ARE jobs for teachers, and this step-by-step guide will help college students and career changers find those jobs and get them. Whether you seek a job as a substitute teacher or full-time pre-school, elementary, middle, or high school teacher, the strategies needed to win a job are here. The job market has changed, and teachers no longer get jobs just by just student teaching in a school. Today's candidates need to use online search engines to find openings, and then produce a cover letter, resume, and portfolio that showcases their training. Interviewing is much more than answering the question, "Tell me about yourself." Teacher candidates must master the art of the behavior-based interview to sell their experience and expertise to employers. When a candidate's Facebook page can make or break hiring, everything a potential new teacher does is important.

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By Mary C. Clement

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PrefaceIntroduction

• Do I Want to be a Teacher, and How Much Will I Make?Chapter 1: Becoming an Employable Teacher

• Licensure/ Certification
• Identifying Teacher Job Market Trends Early

• Reviewing Your Qualifications and the Job Market NeedsChapter 2: Starting the Job Search - A Timetable

• At Least a Year Before You Want a Teaching Job
• Nine Months Before You Want a Job

• The Last Three Months Before You Want to Start a JobChapter 3: Creating the Teacher Resume

• Activity - Your Teaching Resume
• Professional Profiles

• Sample Resumes - New Graduates, Career Changers, Those Returning to TeachingChapter 4: The Cover Letter

• Activity for Writing a Cover Letter
• Sample Cover Letters

• Online Letters and EtiquetteChapter 5: The Interview Portfolio

• Sample Portfolio Items
• FAQs about Portfolios

• Online and Electronic PortfoliosChapter 6: Applying for Jobs

• National, State, and District Job Sites
• Information Needed on an Application
• Letters of Reference

• FAQs about Delivering a Job Application PacketChapter 7: Behavior-Based Interviewing, Illegal, and Crazy Questions

• What Employers Want
• What BBI-style Questions Look Like
• Old-fashioned, non-BBI-style Questions
• Answering Crazy Questions Activity

• Illegal QuestionsChapter 8: Preliminary Interviews

• Commonly-asked Preliminary Interview Questions
• Telephone Interviews
• Internet and Job Fair Interviews

• Career Clothes for a Job FairChapter 9: On-site Interview Questions and Answers

• How do Interviews Start?
• Grade and Subject-level Specific Questions
• Substitute Teaching Questions

• FAQs about InterviewsChapter 10: After the Interview

• Thank you Notes
• How to Follow up about Offers
• FAQs about Teaching Job Offers

• Tracking your InterviewsChapter 11: Your First Year of Teaching

• When Hired
• New Teacher Orientation
• Mentor Programs
• Checklist for the First Day of School
• Your Evaluations
• FAQs about the First Year of Teaching
• The Stages of a Teaching Career