Launch a Teaching Career: Secrets for Aspiring Teachers

Peter P. Leibman

doi:10.5771/9781475817089

Summary

This is the perfect time to become a full-time teacher and yet too many college graduates who majored in education, or corporate workers looking to transition to teaching, cannot secure a teaching position. Where are the opportunities? How do you market yourself appropriately? In Launch a Teaching Career: Secrets for Aspiring Teachers, Dr. Peter Leibman explains in great detail how to avoid the resume pile, enhance your candidacy, and move to the head of the class. A step-by-step plan of action is presented giving you a comprehensive guide to achieve your goal of becoming a teacher. You will learn how to:

• Build a positive reputation as an undergraduate student

• Effectively transition from the corporate world

• Develop a powerful network of supporters

• Write a dynamic broadcast letter designed to get you more interviews

• Avoid resume pitfalls and present yourself in a professional manner

• Ace the interview by taking control

• Learn where the job opportunities really are

• Enhance your position and impress school administrators

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Copyright Year: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-1707-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-1708-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 198
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Introduction No access
CHAPTER 1. Why Is This the Perfect Time to Become a Teacher? No access Pages 1 - 18
CHAPTER 2. Characteristics of Effective Teachers No access Pages 19 - 36
CHAPTER 3. Pre-graduation Advice for Future Teachers No access Pages 37 - 54
CHAPTER 4. Transitioning from Corporate to Teaching No access Pages 55 - 70
CHAPTER 5. The Teacher Certification Process No access Pages 71 - 90
CHAPTER 6. Networking for a Teaching Job No access Pages 91 - 102
CHAPTER 7. The Broadcast Letter No access Pages 103 - 124
CHAPTER 8. The Résumé No access Pages 125 - 150
CHAPTER 9. The Interview Process No access Pages 151 - 168
CHAPTER 10. You Have the Job. Now What? No access Pages 169 - 182
Conclusion No access Pages 183 - 184
Index No access Pages 185 - 196
About the Author No access Pages 197 - 198