Reply To: I am dying to get my first teaching job, but …

[nafmeadmin]

I share the same fear as many others here, the lack of true knowledge of finding those job opportunities. Though you have already covered this. Currently I’m a senior, the realization that student teaching and finding a career is just kicking in. Everything is just frantic at this point, due to rushing through the past two year as a MUED major (I was passing between science/math based majors for three previous years), I feel as though a lot of important material I may need to find that job might have been lost. The lack of time in this school has severely hindered my ability to build connections. Where I am going with this is, how important are the connections you have with other educators and faculty when applying for the first job? I am just in fear with how crammed I have been trying to complete this degree, I may have passed up a major necessity for actually obtaining the job.