Thread: Are You Looking for a Job? It's a Great Time to be a Teacher

Do you have a teaching certificate? Are you looking for a job? In terms of employment options here in the United States, there has never been a better time to be a teacher.

Massachusetts has a $20,000 signing bonus for the top one hundred and twenty five college graduates and mid-career professionals who apply for a job in that state. Visit [url]http://www.doe.mass.edu/educators/incentives.html[/url] for more details.

Baltimore teachers can receive up to $5,000 towards the closing cost of a home in the city.

A $1,000 bonus is available for classroom teachers in Maryland who graduate in the top 10% of their class and remain employed in the same district for a minimum of three years. [url]http://www.msde.state.md.us/factsndata/IncentivesUpdateWeb.htm[/url]


The Johnston County schools in North Carolina will pay a $2,000 signing bonus to teachers of Middle and High School math, science, foreign language, and limited English proficiency. They will also pay a $1,000 signing bonus to all “newly hired, fully licensed” teachers. [url]http://www.johnston.k12.nc.us/web/Employment.htm[/url]

The El Rancho Unified School District in southern California, [url]http://www.erusd.k12.ca.us/personnel/Hiring%20Incentives.htm,[/url] will pay a $5,000 signing bonus for teachers of special education, math, science, or bilingual programs. A $3,000 signing bonus is offered for teachers of language arts or computers.

In Texas, state legislators approved a $3,000 across the board raise for teachers last year. Individual districts like Houston and Fort Bend offer signing bonuses of $1,500 for teachers in hard to place subjects.

In district after district throughout the United States, incentive packages are being offered to teachers. Depending upon your area of certification, you can get moving expenses, signing bonuses, and/or special deductions for apartments or home loans.

This is a wonderful time to be a teacher.

If you do your homework and research the regional job market, there is no reason why you can’t take advantage of the current market – and if you’re willing to relocate, my goodness – the world can be your oyster. American schools overseas are looking for teachers and if you’ve thought about teaching on a beach in Bali, Indonesia or braving the fjords of Norway, the International Schools Services has an annual recruiting fair in June. [url]http://www.iss.edu/[/url]

For those of you who are less adventurous, there are a lot of teacher recruitment web sites on the internet.

Here are few domestic sites that I’d like to recommend:

[url]http://www.k12jobs.com[/url]

[url]http://www.teachers-teachers.com[/url]

So dust off your suitcase and break out a road map for the United States. There are plenty of jobs waiting for you – from the beaches of southern California to the plains of Texas and from the everglades of Florida to the Big Apple in New York. There are opportunities waiting so come on in – the employment waters are fine!