Anonymous wrote:What is your subject area/ grade? Do you match the list of jobs they are looking to fill or do you have an obscure subject area?

I think I have certification in areas that are needed. I have an Advanced Professional Certificate. My certification areas are Elementary Education Grades 1-6 & Middle Grades. I have an additional endorsement as a Reading Specialist. I wanted to add on ESOL but I'm too busy working that extra job to take the classes that are needed.

Almost all the teachers that I personally know who jumped ship to MCPS did say it took at least a year. However they all left before the pay freeze situation in both PGCPS and MCPS.

MCPS teachers, your pay freeze has been lifted correct?

Can anyone give an inside info on Howard County Public Schools?

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Teacher here: Call Human Resources and talk to a real person. Find out the status of your application. Is your certification current? Keep looking at openings. If there is one you are interested in, send an email to the principal at the school. The principals are the ones who make the hiring decisions.

OP

My certification is current. In the past I called and emailed HR but they referred me back to the online system. I will say that occurred during the hiring freeze. Good idea to look at openings and contact the principal. I hadn't thought to do that before.

What is your subject area/ grade? Do you match the list of jobs they are looking to fill or do you have an obscure subject area?

MCPS Teacher here: Call Human Resources and talk to a real person. Find out the status of your application. Is your certification current? Keep looking at openings. If there is one you are interested in, send an email to the principal at the school. The principals are the ones who make the hiring decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:Okay I've been teaching for over ten years. For the past two years I've been trying to work in either MCPS or HCPS. What is the deal with the hiring process? MCPS was on a hiring freeze but I believe that has been lifted. I applied online and it seems like my application has been floating in cyberspace for the past two years. No interview, email, nothing!!! HCPS has given me an interview but I have the feeling they tend to hire rookie teacher since they can pay them less.

Any thoughts or advice?

Montgomery County hired 750 new teachers during the summer. You must be doing something wrong.

Within the "new" category, direct me to the source that breaks down the data by NEW versus transfers. Transfers, who tend to have quite a few years of experience, are harder on the budget.

So YOU are doing something wrong, PP, by posting a statement w/o backing it up with data that supports OP's situation.

Anonymous wrote:Okay I've been teaching for over ten years. For the past two years I've been trying to work in either MCPS or HCPS. What is the deal with the hiring process? MCPS was on a hiring freeze but I believe that has been lifted. I applied online and it seems like my application has been floating in cyberspace for the past two years. No interview, email, nothing!!! HCPS has given me an interview but I have the feeling they tend to hire rookie teacher since they can pay them less.

Any thoughts or advice?

Montgomery County hired 750 new teachers during the summer. You must be doing something wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:For MCPS, the best way to start is by subbing. They'll call you for orientation (they are always hiring subs) and then you're in the system. You can start checking the emails, get sub jobs, and then next year you will be in the pool for hiring contracted teachers. There are no benefits for subs, but the pay is pretty reasonable--I think it's about $150/day (but check the website to be sure).

good Lord! You expect a teacher with 10 years in to sub?

OP, do you know anyone in the system? At my school, if there's an opening, someone will usually bring up the name of a friend who's interested in transferring - usually from PG or DC. If the principal agrees (you can always meet him/her informally), HR can kick it up a notch or two.

OP Again, THIS is what I needed to hear. I'm currently in PG and I've had it with our three year plus pay freeze. I have actually been working with MCPS teachers on Saturdays. Working a second job at one of the Saturday programs. I was hoping the situation in PG would change but I've given up hope. I'm so ready to jump this ship.

Then if you've made some good "friends" with them, see if they can put in a good word for you. high school? If so, which subject area? Expect to work in a "red zone" school, which is what you're experienced with. (the DCC and NEC)

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Anonymous wrote:For MCPS, the best way to start is by subbing. They'll call you for orientation (they are always hiring subs) and then you're in the system. You can start checking the emails, get sub jobs, and then next year you will be in the pool for hiring contracted teachers. There are no benefits for subs, but the pay is pretty reasonable--I think it's about $150/day (but check the website to be sure).

good Lord! You expect a teacher with 10 years in to sub?

OP, do you know anyone in the system? At my school, if there's an opening, someone will usually bring up the name of a friend who's interested in transferring - usually from PG or DC. If the principal agrees (you can always meet him/her informally), HR can kick it up a notch or two.

OP Again, THIS is what I needed to hear. I'm currently in PG and I've had it with our three year plus pay freeze. I have actually been working with MCPS teachers on Saturdays. Working a second job at one of the Saturday programs. I was hoping the situation in PG would change but I've given up hope. I'm so ready to jump this ship.

Anonymous wrote:For MCPS, the best way to start is by subbing. They'll call you for orientation (they are always hiring subs) and then you're in the system. You can start checking the emails, get sub jobs, and then next year you will be in the pool for hiring contracted teachers. There are no benefits for subs, but the pay is pretty reasonable--I think it's about $150/day (but check the website to be sure).

good Lord! You expect a teacher with 10 years in to sub?

OP, do you know anyone in the system? At my school, if there's an opening, someone will usually bring up the name of a friend who's interested in transferring - usually from PG or DC. If the principal agrees (you can always meet him/her informally), HR can kick it up a notch or two.

While there has in fact been a hiring freeze implemented the past few years once school is under way for a month or so, it's not the case over the summer as MCPS looks to replaced teachers who retired or left for other reasons. We had a teacher quit w/o warning two weeks ago yesterday, and filled the position by the middle of last week. Personnel keeps files of prospective teachers that they've interviewed and given the OK to for schools to interview for vacancies. We, at the school level, get to choose who we want from this pool. This has happened two years in a row, and we've been very happy with who we've hired.

Our ES hired three teachers fresh out of school this year. I also know a teacher who just moved here from out of state to start a job. So, MCPS is definitely hiring.

OP here. I'm already working in another school district in MD so subbing isn't an option. Any other thoughts or ideas?

For MCPS, the best way to start is by subbing. They'll call you for orientation (they are always hiring subs) and then you're in the system. You can start checking the emails, get sub jobs, and then next year you will be in the pool for hiring contracted teachers. There are no benefits for subs, but the pay is pretty reasonable--I think it's about $150/day (but check the website to be sure).

I haven't been teaching that long, but I'm in the same situation with the application process. I'm thinking of just doing long-term substitute teaching first to get my foot in the door. Good luck!

Okay I've been teaching for over ten years. For the past two years I've been trying to work in either MCPS or HCPS. What is the deal with the hiring process? MCPS was on a hiring freeze but I believe that has been lifted. I applied online and it seems like my application has been floating in cyberspace for the past two years. No interview, email, nothing!!! HCPS has given me an interview but I have the feeling they tend to hire rookie teacher since they can pay them less.

Any thoughts or advice?