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a career fair
Feb. 25th, 2025 05:00 pmi have survived a mandatory teacher career fair at my university. it was less scary than i anticipated, but somehow worse bc it wasn't really anything i was expecting. i hate The Unknown. how rude of things to be concealed from me.
i thought i was going to be asked a bunch of hard questions. i even thought somebody might try to interview me on the spot (they said they might! i thought they might!) so i prepared a bunch of answers for potential interview questions. none of them asked me any interview questions! i can't believe it! one school district asked my FRIEND a bunch of hard questions, but i wasn't interested in them, i was just there for moral support, so i didn't want to offer any answers and overshadow my friend.
instead i had a bunch of districts telling me sooo much information about their schools and practices. they were actually all sooo friendly and wonderful. i wish i could apply to all of them, but that's just the people pleaser in me talking. they were so hopeful and generous and smiley--how could i crush their hopes and never contact them again? :( this is a teacher's market rn, as somebody said--the districts have to work hard to find good teachers, not the other way around. i have Power here lol.
anyway i narrowed it down to a top three and i guess i'll start applying right away! my best option would be to stay at the district i'm student teaching at, since i know how they work already and they're very local. short commute. but the other two districts are very promising as well. i'm kind of sad--what if i stay at this district and miss out on great opportunities at the other districts? i lowkey never expected there to be MULTIPLE great districts to choose from. i've only heard about bad ones, but ig that's what the career fair is for--to find all the good ones. i'll need to prepare a bunch of very important questions to ask when i get interviewed so i can make a decision. if only i'd been preparing questions to ASK instead of questions to ANSWER for this fair :T but things turn out the way things turn out. i learned plenty regardless.
i thought i was going to be asked a bunch of hard questions. i even thought somebody might try to interview me on the spot (they said they might! i thought they might!) so i prepared a bunch of answers for potential interview questions. none of them asked me any interview questions! i can't believe it! one school district asked my FRIEND a bunch of hard questions, but i wasn't interested in them, i was just there for moral support, so i didn't want to offer any answers and overshadow my friend.
instead i had a bunch of districts telling me sooo much information about their schools and practices. they were actually all sooo friendly and wonderful. i wish i could apply to all of them, but that's just the people pleaser in me talking. they were so hopeful and generous and smiley--how could i crush their hopes and never contact them again? :( this is a teacher's market rn, as somebody said--the districts have to work hard to find good teachers, not the other way around. i have Power here lol.
anyway i narrowed it down to a top three and i guess i'll start applying right away! my best option would be to stay at the district i'm student teaching at, since i know how they work already and they're very local. short commute. but the other two districts are very promising as well. i'm kind of sad--what if i stay at this district and miss out on great opportunities at the other districts? i lowkey never expected there to be MULTIPLE great districts to choose from. i've only heard about bad ones, but ig that's what the career fair is for--to find all the good ones. i'll need to prepare a bunch of very important questions to ask when i get interviewed so i can make a decision. if only i'd been preparing questions to ASK instead of questions to ANSWER for this fair :T but things turn out the way things turn out. i learned plenty regardless.
