Clement, Mary C. & Kappa Delta Pi (2003)
The ABC’s of Job-Hunting for Teachers: An A-Z Guide to Landing the Perfect Job.
Indianapolis: Kappa Delta Pi.
Kappa Delta Pi, the international honor society in education, in partnership with Teachers-Teachers.com, a free, online teacher recruitment service, sponsored this publication that is an alphabetically arranged guide to job searching, interview preparation, and more. Written in a breezy style with short entries under most topics, its strengths lie in the presentation of questions that interviewers are likely to ask, the sample of a beginning teacher’s resume, and tips on interviewing etiquette. A few of the entries, such as Graduate School or Books, seem out of place, but the whole is a brief collection of common sense, helpful information, including a job-search checklist that summarizes much of the advice presented throughout the book. The bibliography (Resources) is quite short and the Web Resources listing is mostly addresses for state departments of education in the U.S. The author is an instructor in the teacher preparation program at a private college.
There is little new here, but the focus on teachers and those seeking their first teaching jobs makes this potentially useful for career collections in academic libraries, especially at those institutions with a teacher education program.
Pages: 83
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 0-912099-44-5
Reviewed by Roland Person, emeritus, Southern Illinois University
