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Re: Online applications
Posted by spedhead on 6/19/08

    On 6/19/08, discouraged wrote:
    > This thread is very discouraging. I'll use my degree for something else
    > with lots less headache.

    Teaching is a great job. I come off negative, but I wouldn't do anything else
    in the world. Well, Hugh Heffner's job looks sweet, but otherwise...

    Look, I encorage you to use your degree for something else if you want one of
    the jobs that are almost impossible to get. Like any field, the teaching
    profession is ruled by economics. High supply and low demand equals very hard
    times finding a job. That isn't going to change in Illinois anytime soon. IL
    teachers make good money, compared to other states' teachers. We have good
    benefits, good retirement, and our jobs are relatively stable compared to
    other fields. Of course there are more people looking for jobs than there are
    positions.

    I've mentioned, in this thread, Sped, math, science, and ELL as positions with
    lower supply and/or higher demand. There's a reason for this. Math and
    Science majors can usually get jobs in the private sector that pay much more
    than teaching. This impacts supply of math and science teachers. There are
    about as many math teachers in the world as there are English teachers, but
    the supply situation is much different.

    On the sped and ELL side, the jobs are harder, trust me. This is why there's
    demand there. I lost a sped teacher who was great because she wanted to teach
    regular ed English. There was an opening, so she got it at our school. Hey,
    you write a unit plan, and you can reuse it next year. More or less, you
    can't do that in Sped, plus all the paperwork with IEPs. ELL is similar. So,
    there's good and bad to everything.

    Hopefully you find something that makes you happy, but anything worth doing
    comes with headaches.

     
     

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