Teacher Recruitment
How about northeastern standards of educating teachers? A friend sent me these pictures of yesterday's and today's Teacher Recruitment Event at the Convention Center. Hundreds of school districts from around the country participate, meeting and interviewing college graduates who are looking for teaching positions.
Paul Murphy Executive Director at Buffalo Niagara Convention Center said many of them hire on the spot, offering signing bonuses to get quality candidates. Imagine being a young teacher fresh out of college and being able to walk around the room, talking to prospective employers with opportunities in virtually every state.
More information can be found here.
Under the Q and A tab: Career counselors from ten local colleges and universities make up the membership of the Western New York Association of College Career Centers (WNYACCC), which sponsors TRD. The members of WNYACCC spend an entire year and hundreds of hours planning all aspects of this event.
The real question is: How do we retain our best and brightest?
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Sobojoe
As a prospective teacher who attended the Erie/Niagara TRD today, I have some thoughts. While many recent graduates lament the state of the city and its education system, and look for greener pastures, I am staying put. When our best and brightest (count me in with that group!) decide that the only way to improve our city is to stay, we will hasten our economic turnaround. Buy a house in the city you can afford and put in some hard work to fix it up. Increase our density and the rest will follow - tax dollars, businesses, and a better education system. I welcome the challenge of working in a Buffalo school and plan a long career of success stories!
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heathersmiles
I attended a few years ago and was very surprised by the number of school districts that sent recruiters. I was sneered at by some of the local school districts for my degrees from Buffalo State, meanwhile districts in California, South Carolina, Texas, and Arizona were very interested in speaking with me. The one representative from Maryvale said that she was looking for people from schools that offered a quote: "different perspective" so in other words she wanted someone who didn't attend Buff State. The out of town schools made very attractive offer that included high salaries, relocation reimbursements and signing bonuses. If I wasn't in what I thought was a long term relationship at the time that I interviewed I would have accepted and moved out of state. This is part of the brain drain, our own local employers don't appreciate or respect the local colleges. I've heard this complaint a lot and have actually heard from more than one local recruiter that if I move away and get more experience then they would hire me in a second when I return.
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westsidemike
This is great "Buffalo" news? It reminds me of the "news" WBEN had about 3 years ago promoting a Texas company recruiting here.
So, what, after they all leave the area we try to entice them back with Buffalo Homecoming? Foolish to promote any event that takes our people out of the area.
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bflorox
Somewhere in a blog from California, South Carolina, Texas, Arizona etc., someone is complaining that teachers are being recruited from out of state instead of from their own backyard...
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flyguy
Western New York is certainly training and exporting teachers across the Country in large numbers and it is true the school districts out of state especially in the south are offering jobs on the spot. Its like a big vacuum moving the educated from Western New York out of here but then again I dont think I can blame them for leaving as there arent an abundance of techaing jobs in WNY with a shrinking population. To stay in Western New York often times means subbing for years before hopefully an opening occurs. The growing areas of the Country offer full time teachers jobs right out of College as whole new schools are opening to cater to the growth. In instances where the job market isnt there I honestly cant blame the students for moving to where work is readily available and its a shame but its true. After you get out of college you are often faced with student loan bills, etc. If the jobs arent where you are unfortunately you have to go and believe me these other states are anxious to grab who they can and take them away.
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flyguy
heathersmiles I totally agree with you. Prospective employees generally arent appreciated very much or even treated very well within the Buffalo market but they are out of town. I think its because employers in WNY know they have the upper hand and that for teachers the jobs are far and few between with a huge labor pool.
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flyguy
And another thing... in order to address these problems of losing the educated population, watching Buffalo sons and daughters get whisked away by job opportunities in mass numbers you cannot buy into this concept of "shrinking to greatness". I think you must take a much more pro growth attitude and attempt to build the population to the point where new schools are needed If you dont want to lose these educators then you must provide the growth to support their choosen professions or watch them go away as they have to other states. Route 15, Route 219, I-81 are great funnels of Buffalonians headed south.
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nick
It seems to me that a large portion of people, at least from my high school, go to school to become teachers. My gf is a teacher and so was my mother and I wholeheartedly respect the profession, but how many teachers is enough? Simple supply and demand tells you that these people will be moving elsewhere. When 200 people apply for 1 teaching position, your odds just aren't very good. I respect people's desire for a certain job and advanced level of education, but don't complain to me that you can't get a job in Buffalo with a teaching degree, there's just not a market.
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Biniszkiewicz
SUNY Geneseo produces a lot of teachers, but I'll bet very few stay in Geneseo. I doubt that fact worries the Geneseo chamber of commerce.
Think of it as successful business: we're in the business of educating potential teachers and we are successful at finding them employment around the country. What this should say to prospective educators is: come to Buffalo to learn and you'll snap up a job somewhere when you're done. Isn't that part of it?
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