Web-powered job recruiting: online teacher recruiting saves time, money and resources.For several years, William Singleton, superintendent of South Carolina's Jasper County Jasper County is the name of eight counties in the United States of America:
v. sweet·ened, sweet·en·ing, sweet·ens v.tr. 1. To make sweet or sweeter by adding sugar, honey, saccharin, or another sweet substance. 2. To make more pleasant or agreeable. the pot, Singleton recently joined more than 250 other recruiters in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of towns with large teacher education pools, including Buffalo and Rochester. Similarly, administrators in Montgomery County Montgomery County may refer to:
Such efforts are deemed necessary in the present job market, especially for critical content areas and hard-to-staff schools. This situation is only expected to get worse. About 42 percent of the nation's 2.9 million teachers are near retirement age, and the U.S. Department of Education says more than a million replacement teachers will be needed by 2008. These recruitment pressures affect every school district, and force administrators to cast wider nets to find qualified applicants. But while recruiting trips are expensive and time-consuming, and traditional print advertising has a limited reach, growing numbers of districts are turning to the Internet. Online Marketplaces Since teacher placement is a gigantic market, there are countless numbers of free, fee-based, and in some cases even fraudulent Web sites to match employers and applicants. Most districts post jobs on specialized school-related sites. For example, Administrators.net offers a link to a searchable job center where administrators can post openings and teachers can post resumes. Similarly, online professional association job banks, including NSTA NSTA National Science Teachers Association NSTA National School Transportation Association NSTA National Spasmodic Torticollis Association NSTA National Substitute Teachers Alliance (Fresno, California) .org for science and NCTM NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics NCTM Nationally Certified Teacher of Music NCTM North Carolina Transportation Museum NCTM National Capital Trolley Museum NCTM Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage .org for math, are prime locations to seek applicants in content areas. But the quality of the district Web site is a key factor in attracting online applicants, and it is surprising how many administrators are not taking advantage of this powerful recruiting tool. Every district site should have a prominent employment section with detailed application instructions. Such announcements can present unlimited information about the schools and the community, including photo essays, audiovisual clips, virtual school tours, and links to related resources such as handbooks and salary schedules. A strong example is the "Employees" section of Nevada's Clark County Clark County is the name of twelve counties in the United States of America:
Moving Forward Many districts are now accepting online applications, and do online screening, such as the Irving Independent School District Irving Independent School District is a school district based in Irving, Texas (USA). The district, which covers 48.5 square miles, serves most of the city of Irving, except for Valley Ranch and a portion of Las Colinas. The district also serves a small portion of Grand Prairie. in Texas that uses an assessment administered by the Gallup organization. A few districts have also experimented with using Web cams to interview distant candidates. The Jasper County School District now posts jobs on its Web site as well as at the statewide CERRA CERRA Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, & Advancement (South Carolina, USA) , and screens online applications. The Web gives districts immediate access to a national market of teachers, and you need to make sure that your online recruiting resources are up-to-date, and that you support your professional job sites. RESOURCES Administrators.net www.administrators.net Recruiting New Teachers www.rnt.org Teachers Support Network www.teacherssupportnetwork.com Teacbers-Teachers.com www.teachers-teachers.com Clark County Schools ccsd.net/employees CERRA--South Carolina www.cerra.org Odvard Egil Dyrli, dyrli@uconn.edu, is senior editor and emeritus professor of education at the University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut is the State of Connecticut's land-grant university. It was founded in 1881 and serves more than 27,000 students on its six campuses, including more than 9,000 graduate students in multiple programs. UConn's main campus is in Storrs, Connecticut. . |
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