I'm a young science teacher, I graduated from one of the best masters programs in the country, and I'm 25 with 4 years of experience already due to graduating early. I got non-renewed from my district with some insider knowledge that it...
I'm a young science teacher, I graduated from one of the best masters programs in the country, and I'm 25 with 4 years of experience already due to graduating early. I got non-renewed from my district with some insider knowledge that it's because they're making room for an ML science teacher and I never got mine (since the years I've graduated, my grad school ensures everyone has the endorsement automatically, but that was after I left) I'm a teacher of color and I speak 3 other languages (including Spanish, but not natively). Now that I'm on the job hunt again, almost every district has said something along the lines of "Why aren't you ML certified?" "You should look into that endorsement" "You should be an ML teacher because you speak X language" Despite my stellar resume, even if their job description doesn't say ML they wanna use me to check a box and fill a quota instead of fairly assessing what I offer to the table. At my current school, I'm the only person in the department who wants to teach AP Chemistry, Astronomy, and soon Physics C when the current teacher retires; who's going to check THOSE boxes if I'm gone? Do they not think that far ahead? I would be a bad ML teacher, that's why I don't want to go down that path. But a lot of these districts want to reduce me down to my identity instead of accurately evaluating all the other things I bring. It's a bias that you can't call out because then you're not "Flexible" despite having 3 endorsemens. Would they be asking a white American applicant these same questions? I presume not. submitted by /u/thechemistrychef [link] [comments]
