High School Teacher Jobs – A USA Listing

Welcome to our High School Teacher Jobs site. The purpose of this site is to provide a frequently updated list of current open positions for the high school teacher. Our focus is on high school teacher jobs which are available in the United States. Here we also provide informative articles, useful statistics, videos, a selection of relevant books, and current career news. This site is produced by IntellegoJobs, a division of Intellego Web Publishing.

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The jobs listed here are in the form of RSS feeds, and will be automatically updated when new jobs become available. The following data should be interesting to the high school teacher who resides within the United States. This data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and is for May, 2007.

High School Teacher Jobs – Statistics (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

States with the highest concentration of high school teachers with annual salary:
(highest at top)

Idaho $48,150
Ohio $53,420
Hawaii $52,330
Montana $37,890
Mississippi $40,760

Top paying States for high school teachers with annual salary:
(highest at top)

New York $64,020
Illinois $63,640
Connecticut $63,290
California $61,970
New Jersey $61,640

Mean annual salary for high school teachers:

$52,450

Metropolitan areas with the highest concentration of high school teachers with annual mean wage:

Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury, MA-NH NECTA Division $48,970
Idaho Falls, ID $45,310
Pocatello, ID $47,520
Vallejo-Fairfield, CA $61,210
Albany, GA $40,240

Top paying metropolitan areas for high school teachers:

Nassau-Suffolk, NY Metropolitan Division $78,380
Ann Arbor, MI $75,820
Lake County-Kenosha County, IL-WI Metropolitan Division $71,520
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL Metropolitan Division $69,070
Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA Metropolitan Division $68,450

Industries with the highest level of employment for the high school teacher:
(highest at top)

Secondary Schools
Employment Services
Other Schools and Instruction
Educational Support Services
Other Residential Care Facilities

Education required for the high school teacher:

Education required for a high school teacher is a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university followed by the obtainment of a license to teach. The bachelor degree should be from a teacher education program and relevant to the area you want to teach. If you have a degree in other fields, most states allow for alternative routes to licensure. But in all cases, you need to have a bachelor’s degree.

Licensure is not required for teachers in private schools in most States. Licensure is required if you want to teach in a public school. Usually licensure is granted by the State Board of Education. The license is very specific in terms of the level you want to teach. For example, you need a specific license to teach at the secondary school level (high school), which is different from the license needed to teach at the elementary school level. The testing required for the license involves display of basic skills such as reading, writing, and teaching, and requires you to display knowledge in your chosen area in which you
want to teach.

For more information about education required for the high school teacher in the United States go to Occupational Outlook Handbook provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Job outlook for high school teacher:

Job prospects look very good for high school teachers in the United States. Particularly good prospects exist for high-demand teaching areas such as math, science, and bilingual education. The areas of highest demand for the high school teacher exists in the urban and rural areas. Employment is expected to grow around 12% for high school teachers between 2006 and 2016, which is considered average growth. But it should be noted that this growth will create 479,000 additional teacher positions which is higher than most other occupations.

Source for the above data:
Bureau of Labor Statistics

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