Teachers, any thoughts on which endorsements will be most in demand next year?

[Anonymous]

What about gifted education?

Fcps is adding AAP to every middle school and to several elementary schools. Key middle school is supposedly getting an AAP center, with no more transfers to other pyramids.

[Anonymous]

There's a whole new high school opening up, so maybe apply there!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:?
I thought FCPS was scrambling to get enough teachers.

Nah they made class sizes bigger and cut a bunch of positions/classes and now they can boast they are nearly "staffed". Many teachers lost prep time and are struggling with the added students in class and no time to prep.

Teachers didn't lose prep time. The new CBA actually guaranteed prep time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:?
I thought FCPS was scrambling to get enough teachers.

Nah they made class sizes bigger and cut a bunch of positions/classes and now they can boast they are nearly "staffed". Many teachers lost prep time and are struggling with the added students in class and no time to prep.

Teachers didn't lose prep time. The new CBA actually guaranteed prep time.

Many lost planning time because they had to receive well beyond the required amount. The guidance to principals was to bring planning to equitable levels across the division, and in doing so many lost “perks” they used to have. In addition, it’s now not possible for someone who teaches first or last block in secondary to come/leave early (which was a ridiculous practice, by the way)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:?
I thought FCPS was scrambling to get enough teachers.

Nah they made class sizes bigger and cut a bunch of positions/classes and now they can boast they are nearly "staffed". Many teachers lost prep time and are struggling with the added students in class and no time to prep.

Teachers didn't lose prep time. The new CBA actually guaranteed prep time.

Many lost planning time because they had to receive well beyond the required amount. The guidance to principals was to bring planning to equitable levels across the division, and in doing so many lost “perks” they used to have. In addition, it’s now not possible for someone who teaches first or last block in secondary to come/leave early (which was a ridiculous practice, by the way)

Used to receive well beyond the required along*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about gifted education?

Fcps is adding AAP to every middle school and to several elementary schools. Key middle school is supposedly getting an AAP center, with no more transfers to other pyramids.

You do not need to have a gifted certification to teach in AAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - I have about 20 years experience, so I'm not a cheap choice. I didn't know that was something the larger counties took into consideration. I'm not willing to teach elementary. I have also heard that sped in FCPS is a nightmare and there are openings only because they can't keep people, but I don't know the specific reasons why. I'd to have to get hired on a provisional for that, though, and I'm not sure how willing the county is to do that.

If you have been teaching for 20 years it’s been a long time since you’ve done HS math. It might be difficult for you at this point and you would be very limited in the classes you could realistically teach. You could always take a course yourself first. That’s going to be the biggest barrier to you getting the job, if you were somehow able to even pass the test to get the certification. You don’t have experience.

Have you been working on any HS math these past 20 years? I’m making a lot of assumptions here and I’m sorry if I’m wrong, but I’m a math teacher and it’s been so long I would need to study really hard before I taught a calc class now. Many adults couldn’t do the problems in Alg 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about gifted education?

Fcps is adding AAP to every middle school and to several elementary schools. Key middle school is supposedly getting an AAP center, with no more transfers to other pyramids.

You do not need to have a gifted certification to teach in AAP.

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