On 5/18/12, peter wrote: > Just wondering if I applied to get a high school English > teaching license in Alaska, would my permanent teaching > certificate in NY count? > > Peter
I am 24 years old, I have my BA in Criminal Justice but have just enrolled in an education program here in FL to become a teacher. I am very excited to finish the program in November and hopefully relocate to Alaska in January. I plan on teaching Math 6-12.
Any advice or poitners for me? Any help is appreciated!
[link ...See MoreAnchorage School District is the biggest school district. It might be a good place to get your foot in the door and sub until you find a job.
You do need to be highly qualified and I believe you need 6 hours of Alaska studies to get your certificate. If you haven't already, look at these websites:
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If you haven't researched the current retirement, and plan to retire from Alaska, you will want to look at this too. We've tried to get it changed for the new hires, but legislation still keeps it as it is. I personally would look at other states if retirement was my plan:
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If you haven't received a job, I would recommend going to the April job fair in Anchorage.
Do you know where you want to live? Have you done your research regarding housing and expenses? Are you aware of travel costs?
Especially if you are considering teaching in the bush, you will want to be highly qualified in multiple areas - not just math.
You really will get a huge response, because the majority of the tea...See MoreAre you looking for a great postcard exchange? We have one, and just need a few new teachers to join us. We take all grade levels K-5 for our Postcard Exchange. I provide labels of all the addresses for free. Please email me if you are interested in joining our exchange.
You really will get a huge response, because the majority of the teachers in our group have participated year after year, so we can count on them.
Here is some info: We are in our 12th year of our 50-State Postcard Exchange! I include one teacher for each state. We have had an excellent response rate with the prior postcard exchanges we have had. We only have a few states available, due to some teachers dropping out. If you don’t see your state listed here, then it is not available. If you want to join, and you teach at one of the states listed above, please email me.
What's great about this exchange is that the teachers are all positive and involved in this project, so the odds are extremely high that you will receive 50 postcards in late October - one from each state, plus one from Washington, D.C., and Canada too.
Besides having this be a great Social Studies project, you can make it a Language Arts project too. The students can write a short note about their state. The teachers use a store-bought card representative of their state. Some students write their own note about their state on the back of the postcard, and some teachers copy and glue a message for each card. Whatever you want to do is up to you! Our postcard exchange includes teachers from K-5th grade levels.
Once you are in our exchange, I can email you everyone's address so your students can address the postcards, or if you prefer, I will mail labels of the mailing addresses for the other teachers involved - no cost to you! All you have to do is have your students bring in commercially-made postcards from your state and mail one postcard to each teacher in our exchange.
We will all mail the postcards out in late October, and in a few weeks after that you will receive a postcard from each of the 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Canada.
Looking for a 5th grade pen pal class. We are located in Weston, Florida, which is just west of Ft. Lauderdale. I will have 22-25 gifted students. We could be exchanging snail mail, emails, sharing projects. It's a lot of fun and the students love the experience. Please let me know if interested. Thanks!!!
This is a lot of fun for the class, and very educational. Any elementary classroom can join. Click on link to get all of the info on how it works, and to sign up. Join us for the 2012 - 2013 school year.
The sign-up for the GREAT POSTCARD EXCHANGE is almost over!!! Don't miss your chance! It is going to be a lot of fun! We need AK, ID, MI, MN, MT, NH, ND, and RI. If you are not one of those states and still want to join, GREAT! Please send name and address to lbuschat AT twcny.rr.com