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Mon 30 Apr, 2007 08:46 pm
My wife and I are career educators ( school psychologist and guidance counselor K-5). Ohio is not hiring. Where can we go to continue our careers?
Are you looking for areas hiring in your fields or looking to change fields?
work after retirement
We would like to continue to work with children.
Have you thought about becoming consultants to parents who need help with deciding what colleges their kids should apply to? Its a rather interesting business here in New England.
Do the degrees that allow you to be a school psychologist allow you to hang up your shingle as a private practioneer?
Funny thing is that I was coming here to suggest you work at a school! Are you looking to help fund your retirement or just be out and about? School systems and families seem to always be looking for tutors.
Shingle
We enjoy helping students while they are still fixable. Working as a private school psych is almost as bad as working in school. We cannot shake the idea that even sixth grade students can be helped to improve their brains.
There I go again trying to actually do something. Schools are so test oriented. We both recall when the child was the center for attention. We know too much for schools today and it is ashame.
Do I sound like a school board candidate? Oh dear!
Lots of retirees move to Las Vegas and work for the Clark County School District. If you're licensed in Ohio, you'll probably have no trouble getting licensed out here. CCSD has lots of problems and is far from the ideal school district, but it's easy to get hired, hard to get fired, and you won't have to shovel snow. CCSD is looking to hire 3,000 teachers for the next school year (except PE and social studies) and is offering a $2,000 signing bonus.
This is a link to CCSD's
Human Resources Division's page, and this is a link to Nevada's
Department of Education's Licensing page.
Despite the fact that I have been actively looking for work for almost a decade, I just recently discovered some interesting resources here in Massachusetts, which leads me to believe that might be similiar organizations in Ohio.