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Informationen zum Autor By Mary C. Clement Klappentext There ARE jobs for teachers, and this step-by-step guide will help college students and career changers find those jobs and get them. Whether you seek a job as a substitute teacher or full-time pre-school, elementary, middle, or high school teacher, the strategies needed to win a job are here. Zusammenfassung There ARE jobs for teachers! and this step-by-step guide will help college students and career changers find those jobs and get them. Whether you seek a job as a substitute teacher or full-time pre-school! elementary! middle! or high school teacher! the strategies needed to win a job are here. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroduction·Do I Want to be a Teacher, and How Much Will I Make?Chapter 1: Becoming an Employable Teacher·Licensure/ Certification·Identifying Teacher Job Market Trends Early·Reviewing Your Qualifications and the Job Market NeedsChapter 2: Starting the Job Search - A Timetable·At Least a Year Before You Want a Teaching Job·Nine Months Before You Want a Job·The Last Three Months Before You Want to Start a JobChapter 3: Creating the Teacher Resume·Activity - Your Teaching Resume·Professional Profiles·Sample Resumes - New Graduates, Career Changers, Those Returning to TeachingChapter 4: The Cover Letter·Activity for Writing a Cover Letter·Sample Cover Letters·Online Letters and EtiquetteChapter 5: The Interview Portfolio·Sample Portfolio Items·FAQs about Portfolios·Online and Electronic PortfoliosChapter 6: Applying for Jobs·National, State, and District Job Sites·Information Needed on an Application·Letters of Reference·FAQs about Delivering a Job Application PacketChapter 7: Behavior-Based Interviewing, Illegal, and Crazy Questions·What Employers Want·What BBI-style Questions Look Like·Old-fashioned, non-BBI-style Questions·Answering Crazy Questions Activity·Illegal QuestionsChapter 8: Preliminary Interviews·Commonly-asked Preliminary Interview Questions·Telephone Interviews·Internet and Job Fair Interviews·Career Clothes for a Job FairChapter 9: On-site Interview Questions and Answers·How do Interviews Start?·Grade and Subject-level Specific Questions·Substitute Teaching Questions·FAQs about InterviewsChapter 10: After the Interview·Thank you Notes·How to Follow up about Offers·FAQs about Teaching Job Offers·Tracking your InterviewsChapter 11: Your First Year of Teaching·When Hired·New Teacher Orientation·Mentor Programs·Checklist for the First Day of School·Your Evaluations·FAQs about the First Year of TeachingThe Stages of a Teaching Career...