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[quote=Anonymous]I worked In market research for three years then taught English for six years. I now work in Communications for a large company. When I was looking to make a career change, I found that most corporations viewed my teaching experience as irrelevant. It was helpful that I had a year of experience as a department chair, which included some PR-type activities (transition to Common Core) and managing a budget. Still, I was hired into my current company as just one step up from entry level, and also had to take a small paycut. I've spent the last four years working my way up to a manager position and the same salary I earned in 2010 :/

PP mentions corporate learning/training positions. My experience was that teaching kids was not viewed as equal to teaching adults, even though the Learning Dept in my company espouses most of the same principles I used as a classroom teacher. If you want to go that route, I'd also recommend an ISD certificate or Masters (GMU's certificate program is all online) as most of the jobs I've been seeing recently are for developing online learning courses.

Good luck, OP![/quote]

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