Featured Free Teaching Employment Resource
'I want a teaching Job' is a fantastic resource for new teachers seeking employment. This website gives you some awesome information about your teaching interview, FREE.
Information includes:
- Fifty of the most common teacher interview questions.
- Special Education Interview Strategies and Tips
- Art Teacher interview questions
- Other fantastic advice
Simply click here to access 'I want a Teaching Job' and click on 'Free Articles'.
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Getting a Teaching Job
Nadia Distel, author of the New Teachers Kit, says of her search for a first teaching job:
"I remember when I finished University, the education department implemented a form of scare tactic that if you did not tick the box that said you would work in remote locations, then you would be lucky to find a job. I did not want to leave family and friends in my home town, so I refused to go. It was my experience that I was easily able to find a job, even without leaving my home town. In fact, I ended up getting back to back contracts in one of Brisbane's most affluent schools, while my poor university friends were struggling in remote locations, wishing they had not said they'd leave.
Some hints and tips I found out when starting out included:
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Get yourself a snappy resume together. Schools like to see that you have a positive can-do attitude and will go the extra mile - my advice to you is to have a resume that indicates your active involvement in your community, including any involvement in voluntary work, sports, artistic pursuits etc. If principals are looking for a teacher, and they also need someone to help with Extra Curricular activities, then you will be picked if you can show you  are an 'extra-curricular' sort of teacher.
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Once you have some supply teaching regularly at a school that you like, approach the principal and tell him or her you are interested in any contract opportunities that come up, and that you are ultimately looking for permanency."
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