Teaching in Philadelphia
PTD – Professional Teacher Development Project

Time periods:

August 2008: workshops in Philadelphia, including child abuse and violence prevention, getting acquainted and settled

School year 2008/2009: September 2008 – June 2009, teaching in public schools

Summer 2009: vacation or possible summer school position

September 2009: new school year begins

The Teaching Position:

Teaching will be done in a public school in Phildadelphia.
The job involves less than 7 hours in school per day,

Monday – Friday. The class periods are about 45 minutes,
sometimes 2 periods are blocked.

Salary:

Salary starts at US $ 41.111,- per year. This is the same salary that American teachers earn. Payment is made through direct deposit to the teachers’ account. Health insurance is covered by the Keystone HMO 10 plan for the first four years of your teaching.

Advanced Training:

The School District of Philadelphia provides for all the teachers, new in the system and established, excellent in service development workshops. The teachers will get a certificate of participation which will guarantee the personal development that returning teachers will need for teaching their subject in English as a Working Langugage.

Accommodation:

The School District of Philadelphia will see to your accommodation during the first days in Philadelphia and they will advise you how to find housing in the city.

Requirements:

• A diploma either from a university or a pedagogical academy with at least one subject in the natural sciences (mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology) and/or Spanish and Special Education (Sonderschullehrer) as well as having taken the required education courses (student internship year is not necessary).

• Good English skills

• Successful completion of an interview with officials of the New York Board of Education

Proceedings:

Please send the three application forms along with three pictures (passport size), a short curriculum vitae in English (4 copies), 4 copies of your diploma plus the English translations of the diploma and 4 copies of your transcripts plus translation to:

Austrian-American Educational
Cooperation Association
Mayerhofgasse 6, 3. Stock
1040 Wien, AUSTRIA

After receipt of your application you will receive information about the place and time of the interviews (beginning of May). At the interview you will also need a police clearance letter, the original plus the translation into English (by you). If you are accepted you have to send you diploma(s) and transcripts to WES (www.wes.org) for international academic credential evaluation. This course-by-course evluation will cost you $ 150,- and is necessary for your hiring. 

You will be informed immediately after the conclusion of the interviews with officials of the School District of Philadelphia of the result. Successful candidates will be informed on the further proceedings connected with their work in the USA, and instructed on how to obtain their visas. 

Unsuccessful candidates are invited to try again for next year’s project after further English language training.