This is a #FediHire post, but it's not about technology, so I don't know how helpful the fediverse will be.
I have a PHD in math and nine years of experience teaching university students. I want to leave higher education and become a high school math teacher, but I am not certified.
I'm in the U.S. and have no easy way to leave. I also can't go four years without an income or health insurance.
What states would be the easiest for me to get at least provisionally certified to teach in?
Also keep in mind that I'm trans, so I am only willing to move to a state where it's legal for me to interact with teenagers and get health care.
#Teaching #Math #MathTeacher #GetFediHired
@2something You should take some education classes. There are things about pedagogy that you don’t know. Trying to cheat the system and skip the education classes is a slap in the face to all of the other teachers who had to jump through those hoops. It also wouldn’t take you four years. You need to learn classroom management, pedagogy, how to plan lessons at that level. There are probably online schools out there that teach these things.
@2something Many private schools hire teachers without certification, though I don't know how easy it would be to find such a position in a trans-friendly state. (Such states tend to have better school systems, thus fewer private schools, and private schools in those states more likely to want certification.) This was many years ago for me, but there are (or were) organizations that match prospective private school teachers with opening nationwide.