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My husband and I applied for positions in Europe through DoDEA. I applied as a SPED teacher and he applied as a MS and HS Biology teacher. We are both fully certified in our state of residence.

I have 8 years of experience K-12 in SPED, I'm the lead for my school, and I'm a mentor teacher for the local (major) university. My husband has 2 years of experience as a teacher of record teaching his own Biology class on an alternative cert at a high-performing high school. He is, as of this month, fully certified on a regular certificate.

We applied only to Europe, as my father (a vet) was insistent we only apply in Europe.

We applied about a month ago. I have been marked as "qualified" in all the areas I applied for. I don't know when they marked me as "qualified", as I never checked my application because I think it's a long shot. I suspect I was marked as qualified about 2 weeks after I applied because there's a date listed next to my areas of qualification. I...See More
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haha Also, they may have gone ahead and processed your EAS because there are likely SPED openings for the current school year that they are/will need to fill.
Feb 16, 2021
IsItFriday? You only applied to Europe? Because your father was insistent. What's up with that? He wants you to go to Germany, because he was stationed there. Seriously? Who's applying for this job? You or your father?

He's shooting you in the foot.

DoDEA is not a huge organization. And only one third of it is in Europe. So basically you are ...See More
Feb 16, 2021
hopeful @haha My husband should meet qualifications for Biology. His undergrad was in Biology from a major university. I'm not worried about him not being qualified, I'm just wondering if they're waiting for the Dept of Ed to bother to send us his official cert to mark him as qualified.

@isitfriday? We only applied to Europe because we were not o...See More
Feb 16, 2021
hopeful @haha My husband should meet qualifications for Biology. His undergrad was in Biology from a major university. I'm not worried about him not being qualified, I'm just wondering if they're waiting for the Dept of Ed to bother to send us his official cert to mark him as qualified.

@isitfriday? We only applied to Europe because we were not o...See More
Feb 16, 2021
hopeful @haha My husband should meet qualifications for Biology. His undergrad was in Biology from a major university. I'm not worried about him not being qualified, I'm just wondering if they're waiting for the Dept of Ed to bother to send us his official cert to mark him as qualified.

@isitfriday? We only applied to Europe because we were not o...See More
Feb 16, 2021


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