The reason NYC has a teacher shortage is that teachers are in physical danger at many of those public schools. Same thing in the barrio schools in L.A.
Las Vegas/Clark County imports elementary teachers from the PHILLIPINES, not because they can’t find American Applicants, but because they can’t find any that will work for the Union-Mandated beginning wages....
The public schools are begging for teachers. The New York Post recently had an article on the teacher shortage in the City.
The reason NYC has a teacher shortage is that teachers are in physical danger at many of those public schools. Same thing in the barrio schools in L.A.
Out here in the burbs, ed schools have been luring change of lifers to grad schoool to get their teaching certificate in one year. Promise of a 96% placement rate
As many found out that the placement rate is as ED techs.
Not many teaching jobs in this neck of the woods.
A friend of mine recently started teaching math (one of the teaching specialties with relatively high demand) at a "inner city" Chicago Public high school.
Her starting salary was $32,000.
A good chunk of that goes to repay student loans - and her degree is from a relatively inexpensive state college.
With her intelligence and personality she could be making 10-15K more in the private sector with better long term prospects, and a lot less job related stress.
Pretty hard to see why anyone you would want doing her job would stay in it for more than a few years - they either change careers, or move to better paying lower stress jobs in suburban districts.
Thee are a lot of other reasons why the job is almost impossible - poorly socialized students, large classes and union and management politics being near the top of the list.
But the truth is we need to pay people like her a lot better, or they are not going to stay around no matter what else we change.
And when the generation of teacher now 50+ retires and must be repalced, the problem is going to get a LOT worse.
I think the bigger problem is housing costs. oh, and LAUSD is importing teachers from India, Philippines, and other countries now since the Cal State schools fail to produce an adequate amount of math and science teachers any longer.
http://www.faeala.org/docs/foreign_teachers.pdf
>>>The reason NYC has a teacher shortage is that teachers are in physical danger at many of those public schools. Same thing in the barrio schools in L.A.
I can confirm this is true in Chicago as well. In the suburbs, there are 100 applications for every open teaching spot, but no one in their right mind wants to work where their are "openings" in Chicago. Schools with metal detectors at the entrances seem to turn off new hires.
The "teacher shortage" is mostly a myth. The only shortage is in technical areas like math and physics. But people who are good in those subjects don't usually make good teachers, or don't want to teach. (There are exceptions of course)