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Teaching Jobs: The Changing Market

By Sean Patrick
Sep 11, 2009
When most people envision a teaching job, they probably think of a second-grade teacher neatly writing letters on a blackboard at a public school. This may have been the norm at one time, but the truth is that today educators have a much broader range of teaching jobs from which to choose.

Public schools continue to be the #1 source of teaching jobs in the United States. Last year's study performed by the NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) showed that between the years of '85 and '08, public education enrollment grew by 26%.

In the public school sector, two new types of class settings - "charter schools and magnet schools" - have provided new teaching job choices for educators.

In the yearly 1990's, charter schools were first introduced. They receive tax dollars but are still considered public schools. They also receive additional funding from their group or groups of sponsors. Teachers are occasionally drawn to these schools because they are smaller and are privately run by the sponsor group.

About 40 years ago, magnet schools emerged to help unite the public schools. These are very selective schools but they continue to be public in nature. Some magnet schools specialize in certain areas, such as language or complicated technology.

Even though these schools provide the public with few teaching jobs than the average public school, teachers find magnet schools very attractive because of the students' profound and advanced work ethic.

Private include faith-based schools such as Episcopalian, Baptist, and Lutheran schools as well as military schools. These types of schools are becoming more and more influential, although they continue to take up a smaller segment of the teaching job market.

Prayers are often included with private schools since they raise funds themselves - this is through the tuition prices of their students.

As the variety of schools have grown, so have the teaching job options for educators. Teachers today can try a variety of teaching jobs in different settings to find the option that works best for them.
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