Middle School Teacher Jobs – A USA Listing

Welcome to our Middle School Teacher Jobs site. The purpose of this site is to provide a frequently updated list of current open positions for the middle school teacher. Our focus is on middle school teacher jobs which are available in the United States. Our list of jobs consists of a page for each state, and each page combines the results from several job search engines. Our paradigm is similar to the meta-search engines like Dogpile, except here we combine the results from job search engines as opposed to regular search engines. If you own a job search engine and you provide an RSS feed for your search result, and your RSS feed is not on our result page, contact us by going to our “About” page, and we will include your result for each page.

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Here we also provide informative articles, useful statistics, videos, a selection of relevant books, and current career news. By definition, middle school refers to grades 6, 7, and 8 and also includes junior high school grades of 7, 8, and 9. The jobs available here are, for the most part, teaching positions for grades 6, 7, 8, and 9. This site is produced by IntellegoJobs, a division of Intellego Web Publishing.

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 middle school teacher who resides within the United States. This data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and is for May, 2007.

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

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

Texas $45,180
New Mexico $47,120
Kansas $38,170
Maryland $54,110
New Jersey $59,120

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

New York $64,140
Connecticut $63,320
California $60,820
Rhode Island $59,640
New Jersey $59,120

Mean annual salary for middle school teachers:

$50,630

Metropolitan areas with the highest concentration of middle school teachers with annual mean wage:
(highest at top)

Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton, NJ $49,100
New Bedford, MA $55,830
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX $45,890
Yuba City, CA $63,940
Brownsville-Harlingen, TX $47,980

Top paying metropolitan areas for middle school teachers:

Nassau-Suffolk, NY Metropolitan Division $78,150
Modesto, CA $66,690
Napa, CA $66,230
New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division $66,070
Kingston, NY $65,980

Top paying industries with annual mean salary for the middle school teacher:
(highest at top)

Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals $51,710
Elementary and Secondary Schools $50,700
Residential Mental Retardation, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities $48,590
Educational Support Services $47,200
Individual and Family Services $46,810

Education required for the middle school teacher:

Education required for the middle school teacher usually requires the obtainment of a bachelors degree in a teacher education program followed by obtaining a teaching license. However many states now allow alternative routes in terms of educational preparation to be a teacher. For example, some states allow you to obtain a teaching license even though your bachelors degree may come from a non-teacher education program. In any case, you need to have at least a bachelor’s degree if you want to be a middle school teacher. Private school teachers do not need to be licensed but require a bachelors degree.

All public schools in the 50 states and District of Colombia require a teaching license. To obtain a teaching license, you need to take an exam which is specific for the middle school teacher. Almost all States require applicants for a teacher’s license to display basic skills, such as reading and writing, and teaching. Almost all also require teachers to exhibit proficiency in their subject.

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

Job outlook for middle school teacher:

Employment for the middle school teacher is expected to grow at an average rate relative to other occupations during the 2006 to 2016 time frame. This growth is expected to be at around 12%. This is average growth, but it should also be noted that because teaching is such a large occupation, 479,000 new teaching jobs are expected during this time frame. This is for all teachers at the preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, and secondary level. Therefore, it can be concluded that also at the middle school level, many new teaching jobs should be expected across the United States.

Source for the above data:
Bureau of Labor Statistics

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