careers in teaching

MTnest
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:59:13 +0000

Is your daughter certified to teach Spanish? Has she taken the Praxis exam? Has she considered being an ESOL teacher in addition to just teaching Spanish? We are in northern VA. Spanish is offered in high school and middle school. A few schools offer it in elementary. In our school, we have had the same spanish teacher for as long as I can remember but she also teaches several ESOL classes.

If she ends up in an area where there is a big population of spanish speaking parents – she will be called upon to translate (make calls home, sit in on meetings etc.) unless the admin. has a spanish speaking secretary/clerk/liaison. It takes a big chunk of time out of the day especially as these meetings are scheduled during their planning periods. From what I hear – she might make more money being a translator versus a teacher!