Well, the date has come and gone for current teachers to sign their contracts for the 2016-17 school year. It is time for me to troll the net for open positions at some of the Districts I would like to teach with this next school year.
So far, I have found a couple of interesting JH positions and have followed the protocol of informing the Principals of my desires. Hopefully, there will be some action on those requests.
I have also been trying to return to my old field of employment in the mapping world.
It is in the GIS world that I have had the best luck in interviewing. Just in the last two months, I have had more interviews than in the whole of the last year and a half.
Would my old line of work challenge me as much as teaching? No, but then again, some of the positions that have been coming my way are a bit more complex than what I used to do in the GIS world. I think that I am up for the task.
iTeachTEXAS sends me an email about three times a week with jobs across the State. Many of them are not in my certification field or are just too far away to justify a move for so little recompense.
I am trying to make myself a bit more marketable by attempting the ESL again in a few weeks. A study guide is here, right next to me, and I peruse it several times a week to see if there is anything I missed the first time I read it. It is a dry, not quite Saharan dry, read and can be difficult to push through from time to time; but I persevere till the end of the chapter.
I can hope that this return to a career path from decades ago will bear fruit, but the odds are against that from what I can tell ... mostly the deafening silence from those principals that I have communicated with about their positions.
More later.
Ciao,
Darrell
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