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 résumé, 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.
Reviewed by Roland Person, emeritus, Southern Illinois
University |