My guess is that the masters degree you will earn will be a
Masters of Education focused on K-12 teaching, so it won't get
you any closer to teaching community college. You might like
teaching high school though. I wish you luck with TFA and hope
you find what you're looking for.
On 4/24/16, tangelo wrote:
> Great advice, thanks so much for your thoughtful answer. I
> was never really gunning fof full-time in a CC. In fact, I
> prefer part-time. However, I'm not sure I have the patience
> for a phd, so I think the plan is the masters through TFA,
> while getting paid to teach HS for two years on their
> contract. Then, we'll see where I go from there. Thanks
> again!
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> On 4/24/16, nah wrote:
>> Most community college teachers are part time and don't
>> make very much money. They get almost nothing in benefits
>> when they're part time and get paid about $1000 per
> class.
>> My cousin's husband has a Phd in Economics and spent
> three
>> years trying to get a job as a full time college teacher.
>> He applied to every position in the US at both community
>> colleges and full universities. Literally, if there was
> an
>> econ teaching job at a college in the US, he applied. He
>> probably applied to multiple colleges in every state,
>> including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, and in Canada.
>>
>> Luckily he was able to get a job in the private sector
>> with his economics degree while he searched for a
> teaching
>> job, and he did the part time college teaching thing
>> online. Economists actually make good money in the
> private
>> sector, so he wasn't hurting for money, but he would have
>> had a hard time of it if he had a Phd in History or
>> English. Anyways, they lived in California, and he
> finally
>> got a full time professor's job at a community college in
>> upstate New York. They moved there last fall.
>>
>> I guess my point is that teaching full time in college is
>> a very hard field to get into. You're not going to get a
>> job at the community college near your home and if you're
>> serious about it, you will need be ready to move, maybe
> to
>> the middle of nowhere. My cousin was used to living in
> the
>> Bay Area, and now they live in a frozen rural town, so
>> they made some sacrifices for his career. You're probably
>> better off staying with teaching high school.
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