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Title: What Principals Want: A Guide TO Getting Your First Teaching Job


1
What Principals Want A Guide TO Getting Your
First Teaching Job
2
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
  • Janice Traylor,
  • Coordinator of
  • Extended Field Experiences
  • Kennesaw State University
  • Town Point
  • Room 4260
  • jtraylo2_at_kennesaw.edu
  • 678-797-2236

3
GUEST EXPERTS
  • Vicki Piedmont
  • Hiring Supervisor
  • Elementary Schools
  • Cobb County School District
  • vicki.piedmont_at_cobbk12.org
  • Leslie Lewis
  • Supervisor, Staffing
  • Cherokee County School District
  • leslie.lewis_at_cherokee.k12.ga.us
  • Laura Martin
  • Hiring Supervisor
  • Special Education, Paraprofessionals and AVID
    Tutors
  • Cobb County School District
  • laura.martin_at_cobbk12.org
  • Lynne Turner, Executive Director
  • Personnel

4
GUEST EXPERTS
  • Lynne Turner, Executive Director
  • Personnel
  • Paulding County School District
  • lturner_at_paulding.k12.ga.us
  • Don Jenkins
  • Director, Staffing
  • Cherokee County School District
  • djenkins_at_cherokee.k12.ga.us
  • Mike Anderson
  • Hiring Supervisor for Middle and High Schools
  • Cobb County School District
  • mike.anderson_at_cobbk12.org
  • Laura Martin
  • Hiring Supervisor for Special Education,
    Paraprofessionals, AVID Tutors

5
Good News/ Bad News
  • Good NewsYou are graduating!
  • Bad NewsYou are graduating at a time when jobs
    are not as plentiful as some years and
    competition is fiercer for the jobs that do
    exist.
  • GOAL
  • To help YOU get the jobs that are available

6
All Principals Want Teachers Who Are . . .
  • Academically Prepared
  • Certified
  • Flexible
  • Happy

7
Where the Jobs Are . . .
  • Public Schools in GA
  • countyname_at_k12.ga.us
  • teachgeorgia.org
  • Private Schools in GA
  • Google
  • Public/Private Schools all Over United
    States
  • Google
  • International Schools
  • China, Korea, Mexico, Canada
  • Google
  • National Defense Schools
  • England, Germany
  • www.state.gov/m/a/os
  • Office of Overseas Schools
  • Washington, DC
  • Tel 202-261-8200
  • overseasschools_at_state.gov

8
What if I Dont Get a Teaching Job in January?
  • Substitute
  • Supply
  • After School Program
  • Paraprofessional
  • AVID Tutor
  • BE SEEN IN ACTION!

9
HOW DO I BEAT THE COMPETITION?
  • Add a content area to your certificate TAKE GACE
  • Elementary Reading SPECIAL
    ED
  • ESOL
  • Middle/High Math
    Geography
  • Science
    SPECIAL ED
  • Economics ESOL
  • Political Science

10
SPECIAL EDUCATION
  • GET YOUR RENEWABLE CERTIFICATE
  • Take GACE
  • Special Education General Curriculum
    Tests 81 and 82 IRR and MID
  • Special Education Adaptive Curriculum Tests 83
    and 84 MOID and SID/PID

11
NETWORK
  • 2. Ask your Collaborating Teacher to put in a
    good word for you with the principal.
  • Introduce yourself to the principal and hand
    him/her a resume. Ask the principal for a
    courtesy interview.
  • 4. Art or Musicsend a resume to the School
    System Art Supervisor or the School System Music
    Supervisor directly. Be willing to go to any
    school.

12
DO EXTRA
  • 5. High School--Be willing to take on an after
    school activitycheerleading, coaching a sport,
    sponsoring a club, coordinating the prom.
  • Middle/Elementary SchoolBe willing to take on a
    High School after school activitycheerleading,
    coaching a sport. Let your willingness be known
    to coaches and HS principals.
  • 7. Tell everyone you know that you are looking
    for a job. Help comes from strange places.

13
Most Important!!!!!
  • BE WILLING TO ACCEPT A JOB THAT
  • REQUIRES A DRIVE
  • NECESSITATES A MOVE
  • IS NOT EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT
  • PRESENTS A CHALLENGE

14
Finally
  • APPLY EVERYWHERE

15
An Outstanding Application Tells the School
System that the Applicant
  • Will be eligible for a certificate on hire date.
  • Where/when the applicant completed TOSS and
    Student Teaching
  • Is willing to take on an after-school activity.
  • Can write thoughtfully, accurately and proofreads.

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  • Has appropriate references
  • Collaborating Teacher for Student
    Teaching
  • University Supervisor (Student
    Teaching)
  • University Professor
  • TOSS Collaborating Teacher
  • Has for YOU and your References
  • accurate, up-to-date home/cell phone
    numbers,
  • professional email addresses
  • 7. Has a clear criminal history.

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  • Are there any deal breakers on the application?

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Resume and Cover Letter
  • Refer to packet.
  • Have a friend proofread.
  • Second Careerbe selective, group jobs
    togetheronly two pages.
  • Should you mention that you worked as a bartender
    to put yourself through school?

19
Waiting Protocol
  • Should I call all the schools Im interested in
    and ask for an interview?
  • Should I drop by the schools Im interested in
    and ask if the principal is available and hand
    him/her a resume.
  • Should I accept interviews at schools Im not
    interested in for practice?
  • Should I email the principal a second copy of my
    resume?

20
Interview Phone Call
  • The school secretary usually sets up the
    interviews.
  • May not interview with the principal firstES2nd
    grade team, MS/HSassistant principal.
  • Write down the name and title of the person with
    whom you will interview. Date and time.
  • This is her/him. Professional messagelose the
    music.
  • Make sure everyone who might answer the phone
    knows the importance of taking the message
    correctly!

21
BEFORE THE ACTUAL INTERVIEW . .
  • PLAN
  • PLAN
  • PLAN

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Plan . . Select Items from Your Portfolio
  • Lesson Plans that worked
  • Project Plans and Rubrics
  • Copies of Assessments
  • Copies of Student Work
  • Any item you were especially proud of
  • A lesson plan that looked great and flopped.
  • Grading Procedure
  • Make copies and put in a folder

23
Plan . . .
  • To be very knowledgeable about the school.
  • To drive to the school at least once before the
    interview.
  • To look your professional best.
  • To be able to answer almost any question.
  • See Preparing Interview Responses
  • Being Ready for Anything

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PLAN . . .With Several Friends
  • ROLE PLAY an interview.
  • BRAINSTORM classroom situations that you might
    use as examples of a great/horrible lesson,
    good/poor behavior management, good/poor
    assessment, accommodation and motivation of
    diverse learners, use of technology.

25
PLAN . . .Questions to ask the Interviewer
  • What support is available for first-year
    teachers?
  • Will I have a classroom in the building or in a
    mobile unit or will I float?
  • What technology is available for Teachers?
    Students? Support?
  • Youve been very thorough. I dont have any
    questions at this point.
  • When do you expect to make a decision about this
    position?

26
The Interviewer May Ask You, So Plan . . .
  • Is there anything I have not asked you that you
    would like to share?
  • Have something ready opportunity to shine a
    bit, share your passion for the school and hopes
    to become a part of the school, etc.
  • If I offer the position to you today, will you
    take it?

27
Acceptance of PositionIssues
  • You have verbally accepted a position at Madness
    MS. Two days later you are offered a position a
    Heaven MS. What should you do?
  • You accept a position. A few days later your
    spouse accepts a job out of state.
  • What should you do?
  • Contracts.

28
Interview Day
  • Take with you
  • Schools phone number/receptionists name
  • Directions to the school
  • Interviewers name and title
  • Cell phoneturn off before entering the school
  • Folder with Resume and Cover letter (2), items
  • from the portfolio, any other support
    material,
  • your questions to ask the interviewer
  • Good pen, a permanent address/phone number,
  • emergency contact informationDoctors
    name and phone.
  • Ability to handwrite a paragraph on an education
    topic.

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AND . . .
  • Do NOT take with you
  • a huge folder over-stuffed with items from your
    portfolio.
  • a disk of your portfolio and expect the
    interviewer to look at it
  • any food or drink!
  • an iPod, laptop, huge purseno more than you can
    hold in your left hand so you can shake hands
    comfortably with your right hand!

30
As you enter the building . . .
  • Notice the lobbystudent art work, awards,
    trophies, plaques.
  • Campuswell-cared for, clean, welcoming, any
    activities going on?
  • How does the school feel?
  • Dont be early and dont be late.
  • Greet receptionist with a smile and call her
    name.
  • If you have to wait a bit, dont engage the
    receptionist in chit chat.

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AND . . .
  • Greet the interviewer with a smile, firm
    handshake, direct eye contact, confident body
    language, appropriate voice level.
  • Be aware of personal space.
  • Thank the interviewer at the conclusion, smile
    and shake hands again.
  • Tell the receptionist goodbye.

32
The Day After . . .
  • Handwrite a thank-you note to the interviewer.
  • Use professional correspondence card
  • Mail to the interviewer.

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  • THE ABSOLUTE BOTTOM LINE
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