Teacher Transition Obstacles
Here are just a few of the hurdles I had to overcome in order to exit my career in K-12 education.
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Here are just a few of the hurdles I had to overcome in order to exit my career in K-12 education.
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Confession… I needed therapy to get through my last year as a teacher. In fact, I had a whole mental health team at my disposal consisting of a psychiatrist, a therapist, and my primary care physician.
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Are you a teacher looking to transition to instructional design who wants free guidance? Starting this upcoming Monday, I will be setting aside a few time slots weekly for free 1:1 chats.
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The hardest job hunt will be the first. The lesson for transitioning teachers is to broaden your job search for your first official ID role.
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Teachers looking to break into the field of corporate instructional design need to redo all of their application materials.
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This is my first summer working my full-time job, ever. So what’s it like working a corporate job all summer?
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When building your digital portfolio, I would recommend including a variety of these work samples.
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The job market for instructional design is competitive, and I have had many aspiring IDs ask me how they can stand out amongst a pool of hundreds of applications.
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Being able to demonstrate that you have experience developing employees in the workplace will highlight your instructional design acumen.
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TPLD is a group of former educators who help current educators with their job transition to the corporate world of L&D, for free. We aren’t going anywhere, but we are evolving.
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