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OR Teachers Chatboard TOP POSTS ALL POSTS SUBMIT POST Search Teachers.Net Advanced You're on the... OR Teachers Chatboard top posts | all posts | submit post Make OR Teachers a Favorite! We also recommend... State Teachers Mailring Lesson Plans • Math • Language Arts • Science • Social Studies • Music • Art & Crafts • Phys Ed • Other Teacher Chatboards • latest posts • by subject • by grade level • by state • all chatboards • language arts center • technology center • foreign language center • hot topics • interest groups Teaching Jobs Classroom Projects Teacher Mailrings Teachers.Net Gazette • Current Issue • Harry Wong Column • Teacher Classified Ads • classroom printables Site Map next post skip topic Print | Share | Report Post Re: No luck in OR., so far! Please help! Posted by TT on 6/11/08 Oregon is infamous for being an extremely tough place to find a teaching job. In recent years there were budget cutbacks, and that coupled with hundreds of recent college grads is why it is hard to get teaching jobs up there unless it is a high-demand field. There is nothing wrong with you; it's just the competition for jobs is so stiff. On 6/04/08, Jeremy wrote: > I'm a second career teacher (44 years old, three years > exp. as a 5th -8th grade teacher ) who moved to Portland > last fall with a full CA CLAD MS credential. It took me > until early spring to obtain a basic OR license and become > comfortable using EDZAPP. I'm willing to accept a job all > but the Southernmost counties and I've sent out electronic > apps and zapps to approximately forty districts with just > one interview request so far. Four years ago when I was > transmitting the same essential data throughout CA (via > EDJOIN), I was averaging three to five interviews a week! > What am I missing? I have added experience, glowing > references from my three year tenure at my former school, > BTSA and COMP certification to my "package" - shouldn't I > be getting some bites? One thing, I felt like I was > getting the brushoff from the district booth gatekeepers > when I attended the Portland job fair. Later in the day, > while washing up in the restroom, I caught a look at my > own, lived in, 44 year old image and suddenly felt a bit > out of place amongst the vast throngs of fresh, youthful > faces around me. I'm trying to quell the demoralizing > impulse to start "shadowboxing" and would like to recieve > some objective, professional input from a person or a > service with the eyes and the inside knowledge, specific > to Oregon's public education system, that might see what > I'm missing. I'm a damn good teacher! However, this whole > experience is starting to get to me. Please help! > > Jeremy Posts on this thread, including this one No luck in OR., so far! Please help!, 6/04/08, by Jeremy. Re: No luck in OR., so far! Please help!, 6/11/08, by TT. Re: No luck in OR., so far! Please help!, 6/14/08, by TeachinTucson. Re: No luck in OR., so far! Please help!, 6/22/08, by I agree with TT. Re: No luck in OR., so far! Please help!, 7/23/08, by TT. Re: No luck in OR., so far! Please help!, 7/29/08, by Portland Teacher. Re: No luck in OR., so far! Please help!, 9/05/08, by get certified in special ed...... Re: No luck in OR., so far! Please help!, 9/08/08, by Ginger Jay.

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