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Shortage of Math Teachers

by Math Teach

yesterday, 2010

Yet another teaching vacancy in the inner cities:

[link removed]

Notice how trhey want two years of URBAN teaching experience. Call up the CT DHE and ask why math is still considered a shortage area, and you will be told that "as long as the inner cities can't find math teachers, it is a shortage area". So what happens? Programs like ARC exist to address the "shortage problem", passing Praxis 2 scores are lowered, even though there are many applicants/position in the suburbs.

This is akin to lowering the MCAT requirements for med school, because we can't find enough physicians willing to work in Camden, N.J.

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D. Craven On 7/28/10, Math teach wrote: > > Well, then, other distrcits in Hartford , New Britain STILL > claim to have a shortage of teachers, especially math/science. > > I was asked at an interview at a New Britain job fair why > I "wanted to teach in an inner city". Gee, Mr. Administrator: I > wanted to address the math teacher short...See More

Jul 31, 2010

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D. Craven On 7/31/10, D. Craven wrote: I think Bridgeport is looking for math teachers. I don't think they are requiring two years experience. > On 7/28/10, Math teach wrote: >> >> Well, then, other distrcits in Hartford , New Britain STILL >> claim to have a shortage of teachers, especially math/science. >> >> I was asked at...See More

Jul 31, 2010

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nope No shortage in CA...they are being laid off along with science and sped

On 7/31/10, D. Craven wrote: > On 7/31/10, D. Craven wrote: I think Bridgeport is looking for math > teachers. I don't think they are requiring two years experience. >> On 7/28/10, Math teach wrote: >>> >>> Well, then, other distrcits in H...See More

Jul 31, 2010

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Math Teach If Bridgeport STILL can't get enough math teachers, then perhaps they should hire them on DSAP permits.

I still maintain that the applicant pool is full of those who took the Praxis 2 several times to pass, those who majored in economics, computer science and other "closely related (to math)" majors to get their whopping 30 credits in orde...See More

Aug 2, 2010

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Anonymous D. Craven is wrong. Bridgeport is not desperate for math teachers this year. As recently as 2 years ago it was super-easy for one with the certification to get a math teaching job in Bridgeport but that has greatly changed. The one major listing for math they had on their website was for several positions at Harding High and I think they may have f...See MoreD. Craven is wrong. Bridgeport is not desperate for math teachers this year. As recently as 2 years ago it was super-easy for one with the certification to get a math teaching job in Bridgeport but that has greatly changed. The one major listing for math they had on their website was for several positions at Harding High and I think they may have filled many of them internally; a friend of mine interviewed for one of those positions and all he would tell me is that it "went badly" and that Bridgeport bureaucracy is a load of BS. I know of one open position at Central (which I was told was filled) and a couple of middle school positions at K-8's that vanished off their website within a week of being posted. Gotta wonder......

I have another friend who had a middle school math position via networking by her student teaching advisor and then was told they had to give it to a "tenured teacher whose position was eliminated".

Speaking of which, this year DHE only declared HIGH SCHOOL math as a shortage area, for the first time ever it took middle school math off the list.

On 8/02/10, Math Teach wrote: > > If Bridgeport STILL can't get enough math teachers, then perhaps they > should hire them on DSAP permits. > > I still maintain that the applicant pool is full of those who took the > Praxis 2 several times to pass, those who majored in economics, computer > science and other "closely related (to math)" majors to get their > whopping 30 credits in order to get certified. > > As a math major (and a graduate student in math), I worked very hard to > get where I am academically. I'm sick and tired of math beaing > advaertised as a "shortage" area when it is NOT, as D.Craven correctly > pointed out. See ya. > > On 7/31/10, D. Craven wrote: >> On 7/31/10, D. Craven wrote: I think Bridgeport is looking for math >> teachers. I don't think they are requiring two years experience. >>> On 7/28/10, Math teach wrote: >>>> >>>> Well, then, other distrcits in Hartford , New Britain STILL >>>> claim to have a shortage of teachers, especially math/science. >>>> >>>> I was asked at an interview at a New Britain job fair why >>>> I "wanted to teach in an inner city". Gee, Mr. Administrator: I >>>> wanted to address the math teacher shortage so as to remove it >>>> from the shortage classification, and maybe let math teachers >>>> who know math teach math! >>>> >>>> In this day when we have many applicants for one position for >>>> math, I don't think raising the passing Math Praxis 2 back to >>>> 142 (or higher) is too much to ask. Cheers. >>>> >>>> On 7/27/10, Anonymous wrote: >>>>> Keep in mind that this is Achievement First, a special kind of >>>>> charter school, not the regular Bridgeport school district. >>>>> They don't have a "shortage" and have always asked for 2 years >>>>> of urban education experience. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 7/17/10, Math Teach wrote: >>>>>> Yet another teaching vacancy in the inner cities: >>>>>> >>>>>> [link removed]

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