Private school job openings are difficult to come by. They have a great salary and benefits, but there are fewer of them-so they are more difficult to get than public school employment. Private school job openings include not just secondary education positions, but additionally k-12 jobs. You could find private school job openings through a number of resources:
The Private School Review provides a summary of 30,000 private schools in the US as well as Canadian territories. Private school job boards are in every private school and post new jobs each week on a bulletin for every passer-by to notice. These same job boards are also published on the web under the school’s name on the private school site. Schools often appoint private school employment networks and agencies to locate certified teachers to fill up their vacated teaching positions. If in case you have a certain teaching assignment in mind for a teaching career, it might be a good idea to have a look at private employment agencies.
There are several types of private school career openings: (1) Religious schools, (2) Special Education, (3) Armed forces, and (4) other. Religious schools consist of Catholic schools, Mormon schools, as well as Protestant schools of various kinds (Methodist, Episcopalian, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Quaker, Pentecostal, etc.). Most of these schools necessitate that a professor or teacher adhere to the denominational/doctrinal convictions of the school itself in order to serve. In so many cases, faculty members must sign confessional documents testifying to their agreement with these convictions.
Special education jobs are in large quantity in private schools. If there is a specific area in special education that is a passion of yours, you can try for these specific positions-provided you also have a considerable amount of experience to go with it. Public education also has room for special education teachers. In years past, many special education teachers have been able to get into the field as “lateral-entry” teachers, which implies that they needed no special education degree to be able to serve. As public schools lose funding because of the struggling economy, lateral-entry teachers will become an employing method of the past for such K12 jobs.
You will find military schools, many co-educational, that are available for both men and women teachers. Summer camps and boot camps are prime prospects for you to serve if you are excited about gaining some discipline while making some money at the same time.
For those who are interested in none of these positions (religious, special ed., or military), there is another kind of private school that you can work for-a school which is a member of National Association of Independent Schools. The National Association of Independent Schools has 40 members along with over 1,400 college and university institutions. NAIS is an independent institution, which implies it works alone as a college or university. The leader of NAIS current is Patrick Bassett.
Annually, the National Association of Independent Schools hosts The NAIS Conference, a three or four-day gathering of above 3500 NAIS leaders in a particular building, city, and setting on selected dates. This season the NAIS conference will be held in Seattle, Washington from February 29-March 2, 2012 to talk about NAIS careers.