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Nature of Work

Industry Information

K-12
  • Education World Use this site to examine everything form lesson plans to classroom technology and management.
  • National Center for Education Statistics Great site for research and employment information. This site provides links to educational publications, data and surveys, education experts, the Department of Education, and other related sites.
  • Database of U.S. School Districts Research the different school districts around the country. You can search from over 16,500 school districts by city, district name, state, county, or zip code.
Higher Education

Alumni Stories

Education & Training

Professional Organizations

K-12
Higher Education
All Levels

Teacher Certification Programs

  • Chicago Teaching Fellows - Provides a pathway for individuals to become teachers in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and to significantly impact the academic achievement of our city's children.
  • The Massachusetts Initiative for New Teachers (MINT) - An intensive teacher preparation program that provides a unique opportunity for the most qualified and motivated recent college graduates to make an immediate impact in the classrooms. MINT participants earn their Massachusetts teaching credentials -- an Initial license -- through an intensive summer training initiative, followed by an on-going support and assessment program during their first year as a teacher of record in a public school.
  • Mississippi Teacher Fellowship Program - The purpose of the program is to attract qualified teachers to the critical teacher shortage areas of Mississippi.
  • New Teachers Collaborative - A year long path to teacher certification. For two summer sessions and the academic year between, you join the faculty of a small public secondary school in central Massachusetts or southern New Hampshire - collaborating in a program guided by the principles of the Coalition of Essential Schools.
  • New York City Teaching Fellows - Established in 2000, the Fellowship upholds the conviction that public schools can work, but that they must be staffed and led by people like you, our most talented and accomplished citizens.
  • Shady Hill School Teacher Training Course - Provides aspiring apprentice teachers with well-guided experiences in pre-K through eighth grade classrooms where practice, merged with theory, is paramount. In this one year, site-based course, apprentice teachers discover what teaching is all about through observation, supervised teaching, workshops, seminars, and continuous involvement in the life of the school. Many apprentices also elect to participate in a joint master's program with either Lesley University or Tufts University.
  • Teach Kentucky - Recruits recent graduates from selective national institutions of higher education to teach in Kentucky public schools.

Employment Opportunities

Sample Employers

General Education
Environmental Education
Community Service Based Education
At-Risk Youth Services
Special Needs Education
ESL & International Education
Education Recruiters

Job or Internship Listings

K-12
  • K-12jobs.com Provides lists to thousands of job positions available at public and private schools, as well as educator job fairs.
  • Teachers at Work A comprehensive registry and clearinghouse dedicated to putting professional educators to work in a suitable role within the academic profession.
  • EducationAmerica.net Database includes all 50 states, hundreds of employers, and thousands of jobs.
  • Teachers-Teachers.com Create and edit your résumé, send cover letters via email and even participate in a recorded interview that will be posted online for schools to access.
  • NationJob Education Jobs Page
  • SchoolSTAFF.com Provides a search engine for the United States and Canada and provides a registration process to add resume to the site.
  • Yahoo Education Job seekers can use Yahoo's search engine to type in the name of any school district in the U.S. or Canada to find employment opportunities in K-12.
  • Peterson's Education Center Database of both boarding and day private schools.
  • The Association of Boarding Schools Employment links
  • Education Week Job Search Marketplace of administrative and teacher vacancies across the United States and abroad.
Higher Education
Other
  • Teach For America The national corps of diverse recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools.
  • World Teach For volunteers willing to teach overseas in developing countries.
  • Department of Education Jobs Human Resources Group and job opportunities information.
  • CampStaff A unique site, designed exclusively to meet the needs of young people interested in finding counselor positions at summer camps around America.

Resources - Who Can Help?

Education Bibliography: A sampling of books available in the Resource Library

  • A First-Year Teacher's Guidebook: This book is a helpful instructional manual, a handy reference and resource book for student interns, student teachers and new teachers.
  • Careers In Education: Includes job duties, education and certification requirements, typical career paths, job hunting skills, salaries and benefits.
  • From Contact to Contract: A Teacher's Employment Guide: This is a basic primer for a job search in education. Included are sample resumes, application letters, interview advice and contract information. A great start-to-finish job search guide.
  • How to Get a Teaching Job: How to look for a job, how to present your qualifications to fill it, and what to do if all else fails. Contains questions at the beginning of each chapter that allow the reader to find and read only the sections that interest them.
  • Inside Secrets of Finding a Teaching Job: A book of advice from teachers, administrators and personnel professionals about the field of education. Provides a very important section on assessing your strengths and weaknesses, creating attention-getting marketing tools, interview preparation and questions to ask and the all important follow-up process. This book is very comprehensive in the teaching/education job search process.
  • 101 Career Alternatives for Teachers: Helps individuals compile their list of teaching skills and shows how they fit into various other professions inside and outside education.
  • Private Secondary Schools 2005: Provides information about private education. Lists schools and profiles each including student profile, subjects offered, faculty profile, college placement statistics and key contact. Listed alphabetically with specialized indexes.
  • Teaching English Abroad: Recruitment agencies, how to find a job, preparation for going abroad, training as an EFL teacher. Plus extensive directories listing the staff requirements in individual language schools from around the world.
  • The ISS Directory of Overseas Schools: This directory is arranged alphabetically by country, then by city/town and finally by school name. The information includes address, telephone/fax/email numbers, the chief school officer, grade levels and other school-related information including curriculum and language instruction.

NOTE:  Italicized titles can be borrowed for two nights.  Please stop at the Reception Desk to check out.  Click here for a complete list of borrowable books.

 

Last Updated: 3/12/07