Will There Be Job Openings in Education?
Projections of Education Statistics
The National Center for Education Statistics provides projections of many statistics included in this chapter of your textbook, including statistics on student enrollment and number of teachers.
Teacher Shortage Areas
This page describes geographical and curriculum areas where teachers are most needed.
The Urban Teacher Challenge
This report from Recruiting New Teachers describes the severe shortages faced by the nation’s urban school districts in areas critical to student success.
The Teacher Shortage
This 2002 article from the Education World archives details several of the strategies that school and district administrators are using to recruit and keep teachers.
National Association of Independent Schools
This organization represents more than 1200 independent schools nationwide and abroad.
Private Secondary Schools
The Peterson’s web site provides descriptions and contact information for hundreds of independent or private schools across the country.
European Council of International Schools
This organization can provide information about schools in Europe.
International Schools Services
Through this organization, you can get information on nearly 500 international elementary and secondary schools.
Association of American Schools in South America
An association serving 41 American International schools in South America.
The International Educator
Teachers can sign up and have their materials reviewed online by international schools through this organization.
Private Schools with U.S. State Department Affiliation
Each of these schools does its own hiring and children native to the host country make up part of the student population.
The Peace Corps
Several months of training are provided prior to living in the host country. Following a stint in the Corps, members have access to a range of programs intended to help them become teachers in the United States.
Teacher Salary Home Page
This page of the American Federation of Teachers web site offers access to their annual reports on salaries and trends.
Teacher Salaries
This site gives you a state-by-state listing of average teacher salaries.
Beginning Salaries
Here you can find a state-by-state listing of average salaries for beginning teachers.
How Do You Obtain a Teaching Position?
Becoming a Teacher
This collection of links gathered by ERIC is grouped by topics such as alternative routes to certification and finding a teaching position.
National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse
The organization Recruiting Teachers offers a "job bank portal," that provides you with access to many online job banks all at once.
American Association for Employment in Education
The American Association for Employment in Education (AAEE) web site offers a listing of vacancies, as well as other job search resources.
Teachers-Teachers
This recruiting company offers a free job listing, as well as other services to teachers looking for positions.
50 States’ K-12 Employment Opportunities
This site, maintained by the University of Kentucky, links you to the job posting sites of nearly every state, or to districts within a state if teaching positions for the whole state are not centrally posted.
Independent School Management, Inc.
This organization carries job vacancy listings for teaching in independent schools on its web site.
Preparing a Teaching Portfolio: A Guidebook
Produced by the Center for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Texas-Austin, this online resource provides detailed instruction on how to prepare a teaching portfolio.
Electronic Teaching Portfolio Samples
This site contains sample electronic teaching portfolios from pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and university faculty members.
Worried About a Teaching Job Interview?
Experienced high school teacher Darci Hammond has created the I Love Teaching web site to support new and student teachers. On this page of the site, she offers practical tips about interviewing, and shares her personal interview experience.
Character(istics) Count: What Principals Look for When Hiring Teachers
This 2002 article from the Education World archives profiles the key characteristics real principals say they look for when they are hiring.
How Do You Become Licensed?
50 States’ Certification Requirements
In an effort to help teachers move from state to state more easily, the University of Kentucky presents this link to licensure regulations in every state.
Teach for America
Learn more about this alternative licensure organization, which places student from nearly every major in their first teaching positions.
Triage for the Teacher Shortage
This is short list of alternative licensure organizations, provided by Education News.
If You Don’t Teach, What Then?
American Association of School Administrators
This professional organization for principals and other school administrators has 14,000 members from all over the country.
National Association of Elementary School Principals
This organization for elementary and middle school principals offers publications, news highlights, and more.
National Association of Secondary School Principals
This is "the organization for principals, assistant principals and aspiring principals" of middle and high schools.
American Association of School Librarians
Learn more about the activities of school librarians.
American School Counselor Organization
This is a professional organization for school counselors.
National Association of School Psychologists
Learn more about the activities and concerns of school psychologists at the web site of this professional organization.
National Association for the Education of Young Children
This is the organization for early childhood educators.
American Society for Training and Development
This is a professional organization for people involved in workplace learning.
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
At this site, you can find information about careers in recreation.
