Getting a Job

Principle and Athletic Director

Getting a job and Interview Process

•  What do you know about educator effectiveness model?
• No Child Left Behind was Bush's model, which was replaced by Obama's Race to the Top
• Every school in the country and all students must be proficient or advanced in math, reading, etc.
• Bar gets raised every year and fewer and fewer schools pass
• States can opt out of the 100% advanced and proficient (No Child Left Behind) and put together a model of assessing students and teachers which is federally approved to get funding, this is known as the Educator Effectiveness Model
• 50% of teacher evaluation is based on SLO's (student learning outcomes) and showing evidence that students are progressing in your classroom
• 50% of evaluation is based off of higher up's
• Teachscape based off of Charlotte Danielson's Four Domains
• Teachscape: electronic portfolio
• As a teacher, one is based off of 2, and 3, which is instruction and teaching
• 1 and 4 are assessed differently
• STUDY DOMAINS AND DANIELSON
• Danielson framework books
• UNDERSTAND AND PRACTICE WRITING SMART GOALS
• Have you written an SLO or a smart goal in your life?
• SLO can be collaborative with any subject
• Can pretest students and create an SLO for certain needs as well
• Need at least two
• Listen to building administrator
• Do you know what a PPG is?
• Professional learning goal of what you are going to do to make yourself a better educator
• A lot of the time can be based off of SLO's and smart goals
• Do you know what a PLC is?
• Learn the new set of vocabulary
• World of accountability in education
• Common core standards
• All teachers must be responsible
• Must be prepared to talk about that vocabulary and understand it
• Next year is the first year of full implementation of SLO's and PPG
• Understand how to use and collect data for progress
• Know how to analyze data

Process

• Get license as soon as possible
• Begin substitute teaching: shows a lot of different students in a lot of different settings
• Teachers aide positions as well
• Where to start looking?
• Jobs posted (WI) dpi job posting/state site
• sorted by discipline
• Can check school websites as well
• MN go to school websites, look into further
• Job postings:
• Cover letter
• Most important thing you do
• First thing people see
• Tells if you can write
• All will be reading and writing teachers in some way
• States objectives
• Where you heard about the job
• Please consider me a candidate for k-12 art position
• I am certain my skills and abilities...
• Transition into things you have done to show you are a competent teacher
• Paragraph form
• Make sure school and person on cover letter is correct 
• Make sure spelling is correct
• Resume
• Don't need to be dazzled, no fancy paper, or crazy font, or set up
• Want easy to read, easy to see, easy to understand
• In art may show a little creativity, but not much
• 1st thing to see on top: degree is in and what license is
• 2nd thing: is education
• 3rd: student teaching
• Look classy and professional
• Portfolio can be seen later
• Resume no longer than two pages
• How you relate to kids
• Transcript
• Make a copy of transcript unless it says official transcript
• Generally okay to send a copy, can call or send email asking if they need official copy
• If gone to multiple schools, make sure to get all transcripts
• Letters of Recommendation
• 3 letters generally
• Only send the amount the ask for
• Good letter from cooperating teacher
• Letter from manager of other careers
• Need a couple that are education based
• Can ask principal or assistant principal to observe or meet with them to get a letter from
• Principal/administrator letter
• One letter of recommendation from a professor/cooperating professor
• Cooperating teacher from practicum would be okay and better than something that is not for education
• District application can be filled out and placed at the end (Cover letter, resume, transcript, letters of recommendation, district application form
• Coaching can be last thing on resume, also can be on district application
• Put in nice manilla envelope with correct postage
• No stains, no wrinkles, no printer problems
• Make sure looks good
• Portfolio to have and talk about it in an interview shown ready and on top of things can be good, but otherwise is mostly important in 2nd interview, not first
• Don't want dead silence while loading things
• May want to see a little bit of work or pieces of student work, but probably not
• Waiting Game:
• Wait until week in advance of deadline
• BE PATIENT
• Do not call in
• They will call you
• Unless you have very specific question about process that secretary can probably answer of email
• Email asking if you want to submit electronic resume
• Phone Call:
• Get your phone call from secretary
• Slots set up for times to come in for interview
• Be completely flexible for interview
• Take late interviews
• Interview:
• 45 minute interview in a coherent way to show knowledge
• Must be prepared
• Apply to every position possible
• Never turn down an interview
• Write down every question they ask you after the interview
• Very similar and common questions asked
• 10 questions in every interview
• Write out answers how you want to answer
• Talk out every question like you're being asked
• Memorize words and short phrases for each question
• Go over before interview
• PREPARE FOR INTERVIEW
• Know how to communicate answers and vernacular
• Understand that you are nervous
• Okay to say "Can I think about this for a second" (momentary pause is okay)
• If you do not know the answer, still have some sort of answer: Maybe, "I don't know of this concept, but I would like to learn more about this."
• Do not B.S. interviewer
• Play the game: Dress the part, be conservative
• Dress professionally
• Phone off
• Be respectful to secretary
• Show up 15 minutes before interview: Not 30 or 45 minutes
• Have questions ready for interview team
• about district, community, school, etc.
• Know how the school runs and where their standards are at or what nationality students are, focus on art and which courses they use, "What software do you you use for graphic design department?"
• "Which classes are offered for your department?"
• Know the district and look things up
• Do not ask about salary or benefits in first interview
• 2nd Interview:
• Teaching in front of a class
• Call back very soon generally within 24 hours
• Will be sent a lesson to prepare for within the next week
• 2nd interview and more specific questions about the position
• Will begin to learn about more expectations
• Finalists generally meet with the superintendent who talks about salary and benefits (generally wait for this subject to come up
• Thank people and do not burn bridges 
• Phone call that you got the job
•  Give 24 hours to tell people you want the job
• Make sure you understand compensation, benefits and what not
• Be smart, be frugal with money
• TSA 403 B plan
• HRA Health Retirement Account