<p>Anybody in this program or know anything about it?</p>
<p>90% of my high school teachers are from the School of Education at Pitt. I guess that means its easy to get a job if you graduate from there.</p>
<p>It depends on what you will be teaching: math & science will always have openings but if you want to teach art/music – not so much.</p>
<p>There are plenty of states that have little or no jobs for teachers. There are quite a few teachers who moved from Michigan at our school – they couldn’t find any positions in their home state.</p>
<p>I hope there are jobs in math and science education! However, western PA (where D is interested in working) is not a great place to find a teaching job of any kind (so I hear).</p>
<p>Have heard about the difficulties in PA as we have lots of teachers from Pittsburgh area in the building too. There is a shortage of teachers in certain areas but there are areas with an overabundance of teachers just be sure to be certified in the “shortage” areas.</p>
<p>What are the shortage areas where you are MTnest?</p>
<p>Shortage are: math (middle school, algebra), science (middle school and high school), SPED (LD) and ESOL (although the level of need seems to be dropping in our area). If you are certified in the non-shortage areas, it is much easier to get a job and more importantly transfer to another school. I know quite a few teachers stuck at their school because there are no openings in their areas of certification. Also, it may seem to be a good idea to be certified in multiple areas (eg. math, language arts, social studies) but be aware in these tough times, you may be called upon to teach a class of math, language arts and social studies which means planning for three different classes etc.</p>