ALTERNATIVES TO "TRADITIONAL" EDUCATION JOBS
If you are considering a career in education, but need additional experience or would like to try out alternatives to traditional k-12 education jobs, consider some of the options below.
Important: If you want to come back to traditional teaching or are looking to gain experience to get into that area, note that those teaching early childhood or elementary education should look for experience with children in some capacity. Those trained to teach middle school or high school should look for experience in their content/subject area.
Alternative Settings
- University Extension Service – research based teaching in the community
- YMCA
- Training and Development in Business
- Boys and Girls Clubs
- Girl Scouts
- Boy Scouts
- Teaching on a military base
- Upward Bound, Gear Up
- Higher Education- student services
- Admission Possible
- Promise Fellows
- Reading Corps
- Math Corps
- St. Joseph Worker Program
- Other Church–affiliated and non-profit orgs
- LVC (Lutheran Volunteer Corps)
- JVC (Jesuit Volunteer Corps)
- St. David’s Child and Family
- Wilder, Washburn, Fraser
- Resource – Minneapolis Rehab Centers
- Operation Military Kids
- Parks and Rec/DNR/ Outdoor Education
- Boarding Schools
- Huntington Learning Centers
- Sylvan Learning Centers
- Community Education Programs- Minneapolis, St. Paul
Domestic Programs (teaching certification not required)
- Teach For America
- National Association of Independent Schools - positions in private schools
- Minnesota Council of Nonprofits - has an "Education" category
- Positions In Higher Education
Teaching English Abroad
- Council Exchanges (CIEE) - Teaching opportunities in Chile, China, Spain, and Thailand
- Department of Defense Schools - explore this website to learn more about attending school abroad (non-teaching)
- Educational Services International (ESI) - teaching programs in Europe & Asia
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - international teaching opportunities through the ELCA
- English Job Maze - resources for teaching ESL
- ESL Café - job postings seeking native English speakers
- ESL Employment - search engine for ESL/EFL jobs in many countries
- EF English First - teach English in China, Indonesia, and Russia
- ESL Jobs - ESL, TESL and TEFL Jobs and resumes
- ESL Teacher Recruiter - Teach English in Korea
- ESL WorldWide - search jobs by position type, country, and language
- International TEFL Certificate Training - information on completing TEFL certification training
- Japan Exchange and Teaching programs (JET) - year-long teaching assistant program in Japan
- Languagecorps - on-site intensive TEFL certification and guaranteed job placement in Thailand, Vietnam, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, and Ecuador
- Linguistic Funland - lots of links to resources and job listings
- Ole English Abroad
- Oxford Teaching Seminars - detailed, realistic, and diverse look at ESL teaching and TESOL certification, including content on more than 50 high-demand ESL countries
- Pradada Pradati Educational Society - volunteer teaching in Uttar Pradesh, India
- Teach to Travel.com - teach in Thailand
- Teach Abroad - database containing teaching positions all over the world
- TEFL Jobs - Asia - positions in Japan / South Korea / Thailand / Vietnam
- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc.
- U.S. Department of Education - learn more about international schools (non-teaching)
- Work, Intern, Study, or Educate Abroad - WISE Abroad, LLC is dedicated to the dissemination of global awareness and understanding
- World Teach - provides both short-term and long-term teaching opportunities in developing countries
