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Sign up. Jamie Goodwin. Pin 1. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. The best time to find a teaching job is definitely in the spring. Interviews for the following school year usually begin in earnest after spring break.
Standardized testing has usually concluded, and teachers and administrators have had a break and are ready to start looking ahead to the next year. For example, if a school district finishes up around Memorial Day, principals will want to get the bulk of the hiring done by mid-June while there are still teachers available to be on hiring committees.
Another thing to take into consideration is the possibility that teachers currently on the job may not have their contracts renewed at the end of the school year, creating an opening for another candidate. Teachers who are non-renewed are usually notified about a month before the school year is over.
After the initial flurry of interviews and hiring, there is typically a lull in the action, as a dministrators usually have about a month of summer vacation. Most administrators work a couple of weeks longer than the teachers and return to school about two weeks before them. Once administrators return from their summer break, another round of interviews begins for any openings that have not been filled.
Oftentimes administrators keep candidates that make a good impression in mind for future positions. The final two weeks before school starts is a hot time for getting a last-minute teaching job. Final enrollment numbers and finalized budgets come in, and there is often a scramble to round out a staff.
Tons of teachers have been hired in the week or two right before school starts, right up to the day before students arrive.
In fact, many teachers report they got jobs days, or even weeks, after school began. This includes having a proclivity toward approaches like competency-based and project-based learning. While a number of school leaders commented that virtual hiring has its perks, such as being able to cast a wider net, it can be harder to get a true sense of whether the applicant is a good fit for the job. As a result, some schools are upgrading their hiring practices, such as asking different interview questions that go beyond the canned ones that are easily searchable via Google, said Todd Bloomer, a high school principal in San Antonio, Texas.
Bloomer said that he and colleagues—including teachers—brainstorm questions based on the specific job and include role-playing scenarios that a teacher might encounter, such as addressing a conflict with a parent.
Additionally, he requires applicants to record a one-to-two-minute video introducing themselves in advance of the interview. More than ever, administrators and instructional coaches say they are extensively checking references and bringing a cross-section of staff members into the hiring process to gauge whether the applicant will fit into their existing professional learning community.
The pandemic has shined a light on long-standing inequities tied to poverty and race, and administrators say that this year they are increasingly seeking educators with culturally responsive teaching practices and an eye for improving equity in schools.
Joe Mazza, a middle school principal in Chappaqua, New York, says his school has made a push to hire more educators of color while changing the culture and mentality of their staff. Overall, administrators emphasized the need for teacher candidates to value social and emotional learning, given the stress of the past year and the remediation that is likely required this fall.
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