2011-2012 Teacher Education Graduates Employment Status by Endorsement Area

Endorsement Area Respondents

(Response Rate)

Employed Teaching

(Full-Time)

Employed Teaching

(PT/Para/Substitute)

Employed Outside K-12 Education

Attending Graduate School

Still Seeking Employment

Art 6/7 (86%) 5/6 (83%)

1/6 (17%)

Elementary 45/51 (88%) 42/45 (93%) 2/45 (4%) 1/45 (2%)

English/Language Arts 11/13 (85%) 7/11 (64%) 2/11 (18%) 1/11 (9%) 1/11 (9%)

Foreign Language 12/17 (71%) 9/12 (75%) 1/12 (8%) 2/12 (17%)

History and Government 15/21 (71%) 11/15 (73%) 1/15 (7%) 2/15 (13%) 1/15 (7%)

Mathematics 18/21 (86%) 18/18 (100%)

Music 25/33 (76%) 20/25 (80%) 3/25 (12%) 2/25 (8%)

Physical/Health Education 10/15 (67%) 5/10 (50%)

4/10 (40%) 1/10 (10%)

Science 28/34 (82%) 25/28 (89%) 1/28 (4%) 2/28 (7%)

Unified Early Childhood (UEC) 14/22 (64%) 11/14 (79%) 1/14 (7%) 2/14 (14%)

Total 184/234 (79%) 153/184 (83%)

12/184 (7%) 5/184 (3%) 9/184 (5%) 5/184 (3%)

Note: Totals may not equal 100% due to rounding. Placement percentages given as percentage of respondents.

83% 7%

3% 5%

3%

Teacher Education Graduates

Employment Status (% of Total)

Employed Teaching (FT) Employed Teaching (PT/Para/Sub) Employed Outside K-12 Education Attending Graduate School Seeking Employment

The destination survey for the 2011-2012 teacher education graduates had a 79% response rate. This year’s respondents are largely employed as teachers (83%), but a few sought other forms of post-graduation employment. Five of the graduates are employed outside of education and 9 are attending graduate school. Five respondents were still seeking employment at the time they completed the survey.

90% 3%

7%

UKan Teach Graduates Employment Status (% of Total)

Employed Teaching (FT)

Employed Teaching (PT/Para/Sub)

Employed Outside K-12 Education

31 UKan Teach graduates completed a destination survey. Most are employed as teachers (90%). Two of the graduates are employed outside of education and one is employed as a substitute teacher. None of the UKan Teach graduates were still seeking employment or attending graduate school at the time they completed the survey.

1% 1%

0.5%

6%

82%

0.5% 6%

0.5%

0.5%

0.5%

0.5% Employment by Location

Arizona

Colorado

Iowa

International

Kansas

Minnesota

Missouri

North Carolina

Oklahoma

South Carolina

Texas

2011-2012 Employment Status by Major

Total employment rate (including graduates who were employed or attending graduate school) for the 2011-2012 year is 97%. There were 5 respondents still seeking employment at the time of the survey.

2011-2012 Employment Location

The majority of respondents (82%) found employment in Kansas followed by Missouri (6%) and international locations (6%). Note: Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding.

97%

3%

Employment Rate (2010-2011)

Employed

Still Seeking Employment

Major Respondents

in Major

Total Respondents Employed or Attending

Grad School

Employment Rate (resp. placed/resp.

in major)

Art 6 5 5/6 (83%)

Elementary 45 45 45/45 (100%)

English/Language Arts 11 10 10/11 (91%)

Foreign Language 12 12 12/12 (100%)

History and Government 15 14 14/15 (93%)

Mathematics 18 18 18/18 (100%)

Music 25 23 23/25 (92%)

Physical/Health Education 10 10 10/10 (100%)

Science 28 28 28/28 (100%)

Unified Early Childhood (UEC) 14 14 14/14 (100%)

TOTAL 184 179 179/184 (97%)

Employment Location

Number Employed

Percentage of Total Employed

Arizona 2 1%

Colorado 2 1%

Iowa 1 0.5%

International 10 6%

Kansas 137 82%

Minnesota 1 0.5%

Missouri 10 6%

North Carolina 1 0.5%

Oklahoma 1 0.5%

South Carolina 1 0.5%

Texas 1 0.5%

TOTAL 167 100%

2011-2012 Destination Survey of Teacher Education Graduates Job Search Data

In addition to information about current employment status and job information, the destination survey included questions about the respondents’ job search, Education career events, rejected job offers, and salary information. Responses to these questions are summarized below.

How many school districts have you applied to?

Total Responses: 101

How many employers have you interviewed with?

Mean: 3.3

Median: 3

Range: 0-15

--------------------

Total

Responses: 63

How many job offers have you received? ------------------- Total Responses: 63 3

How many job offers have you rejected?

23

21

19

38

0 10 20 30 40

1-3

4-6

7-10

10+

Number of Districts Applied To

3

62

25

6

5

0 20 40 60 80

0

1-3

4-6

7-10

10+

Number of Interviews

7

56

30

4

4

0 20 40 60

0

1

2

3

4+

Number of Job Offers Mean: 1.51 Median: 1 Range: 0-10 -------------------- Total Responses: 101

Total Responses: 101

63

28

6

4

0 20 40 60 80

0

1

2

3+

Number of Rejected Offers Mean: .59 Median: 0 Range: 0-9 -------------------- Total Responses: 101

Total Respondents Reporting Rejected Offers: 38

Total Rejected Offers: 60

Of the 38 respondents that rejected offers, all but one are currently employed.

2011-2012 Destination Survey of Teacher Education Graduates Job Search Data Continued…

Length of Job Search

Mean: 2.76 Median: 2 Range: 1-10 -------------------- Total Responses: 97

Date Accepted Primary Position

Employers Hiring 4+ Completers (as reported by grads)

EMPLOYER NAME

CITY, STATE

# OF HIRES

USD 512 – Shawnee Mission Shawnee Mission, KS 11

USD 497 - Lawrence SD Lawrence, KS 10

USD 233 – Olathe Olathe, KS 8

USD 500 - Kansas City, KS Kansas City, KS 6

USD 229 - Blue Valley Overland Park, KS 7

USD 501 – Topeka Topeka, KS 5

USD 437 - Auburn-Washburn Topeka, KS 4

Alta Vista Charter School Kansas City, MO 4

USD 450 – Shawnee Heights Topeka, KS 4

USD 464 - Tonganoxie Tonganoxie, KS 4

USD 202 – Turner Kansas City, KS 4

33

20

12

15

10

7

0 10 20 30 40

1

2

3

4

5

6+

Number of Months from First Application to Acceptance of Position

14

17

22

18

13

3

4

1

4

0 5 10 15 20 25

District Website

Student Teaching

Networking

Teaching Jobs Website

Ed Interview Day

Ed Career Fair

Faculty

UCC Referral

Other

Source of Jobs

How did you first learn about your job?

1

4

6

18

23

20

14

9

3

Jan-12

Feb-12

Mar-12

Apr-12

May-12

Jun-12

Jul-12

Aug-12

Sep-12

Month/Year Accepted Position

All employers that hired 4 or more graduates were located in Kansas, except for Alta Vista Charter School, which is located in Kansas City, MO.

Out of the 98 respondents who answered this question, most (77%) signed contracts with school districts between April and July, but a few (12%) signed contracts in August and September 2012.

2011-2012 Destination Survey of Teacher Education Graduates Job Search Data Continued…

Did you attend Education Interview Day in March 2012? Yes: 71 No: 42 -------------------- Total: 113

Did you receive any job offers from Education Interview Day?

Yes: 22 No: 49 -------------------- Total: 71

Did you attend the Education Career Fair in November 2011? Yes: 50 No: 63 -------------------- Total: 113

Did you receive any job offers from Education Career Fair?

Yes: 8 No: 42 -------------------- Total: 50

63%

37%

Attended Education Interview Day (March 2012)

Yes

No

16%

84%

Received Job Offers from Education Career Fair

Yes

No

31%

69%

Received Job Offers from Education Interview Day

Yes

No

44%

56%

Attended Education Career Fair (November 2011)

Yes

No

2011-2012 Destination Survey of Teacher Education Graduates Salaries Reported

OVERALL 2011-2012 2010-2011

Total Graduates Reporting Salary: 98 (58% of total employed) 86 (64% of total employed) Mean Overall Salary: Median Overall Salary: Overall Range: Low Less than $20,000 Less than $20,000 High $45,000 $50,000

8

9

3

33

37

8

0

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40

Range of Salaries report: 2011 - 2012

2011-2012 Destination Survey of Teacher Education Graduates Career Services Information

Which of the following career services did you utilize as a KU student?

10

46

6

5

9

67

31

4

4

19

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

Career Counseling

Resume/Cover Letter Review

Practice Interview

Job Search Assistance

Workshops

Career Fairs

KU Career Connections

Reference Letter File

Other

Did not utilize career services

Career Services Utilized

2011-2012 Destination Survey of Teacher Education Graduates Academic Information

58%

40%

2%

Usefulness of Content Courses

Extremely useful

Moderately useful

Not useful

How useful do you believe each of the following college academic experiences will be to you as you begin your career?

60%

36%

4%

Usefulness of Methods Courses

Extremely useful

Moderately useful

Not useful

58%

33%

9%

Usefulness of Early Field Experiences

Extremely useful

Moderately useful

Not useful

96%

4%

Usefulness of Student Teaching/Internships

Extremely useful

Moderately useful

Not useful

2011-2012 Destination Survey of Teacher Education Graduates

Academic-Related Comments from Graduates:

GLP students need more opportunities in the classroom. Prior to student teaching, I only had one very short experience in the classroom. It would also be nice to give GLP students experience with more than one grade level. I have zero experience working at the middle level because the opportunity wasn't given to me in the GLP.

I am grateful they have us do so many lesson plans because with the job I accepted, only have seven days to prepare. It is nice to not feel completely lost since I've made a basic curriculum and done lesson plans!

I believe the new four year program will be much more practical and financially appropriate for the teaching profession. However that being said, my favorite class was the Educational Law class taken during the graduate hours of my time at KU.

I feel that I received a fine education while at the University of Kansas. My only issue was with the KTPT, because it was unnecessarily stressful load in addition to student teaching. I think it could be revised to benefit both students and the licensing committee.

I would like to have had further exposure to practical applications of the theoretical methods and course content prior to student teaching. I felt under-prepared for actual classroom teaching.

KU has given me a great education and has prepared me extremely well for my current employment. I couldn't have chosen a better program.

KU students should be pushed to take Spanish classes or at least a dedicated ELL class ESPECIALLY if they have plans to teach outside of Kansas. Every other job posting in Colorado required the teaching candidate to be fluent in Spanish. Additionally, there were thousands upon thousands of elementary teaching jobs that ONLY required you to have taken an Early Childhood Education 101 class. This one class can guarantee a job immediately after graduation. My goal was to teach secondary mathematics, and I did find a job, but not until the day before school started. Having taken that single class as a safety net to know I'd have a salary this year would have made my summer and job search much less stressful.

More content courses and less methods courses. Most of my learning occurred during my internship working for a PDS school. Also, provide students early with opportunities to teach mini lessons in classrooms around the Lawrence area. I never taught a lesson to students before my student teaching experience and feel I could have greatly benefited from hands-on experience in a 6-12 grade classroom prior to my internship.

Participated in PDS and it was a great experience. Wish I could've been a part of the 4 year program because the graduate tuition is ridiculous on top of not being able to work.

The educational program could be improved by providing more opportunities for students to prepare random lesson plans for their content area that encompass multiple grade levels. This would help prepare students for their student teaching experience. One other thing I feel would greatly benefit students is for students to have exposure to K-12 student work and practice grading papers. Students would then compare their grades to the actual grades given and again be better prepared for the classroom and what can be expected from their students.

The Health/Physical Education content courses need to include more field experiences at earlier stages in the students' college career.

The math and literacy courses we are required to take at the beginning of our experience should be taken at the END of our time at KU. Especially the math labs. I forgot a lot of content learned by the time I got to student teaching and now as a new teacher.

This pertains specifically to music education. I think we should have an equal amount of time in primary and secondary student teaching. I ended up accepting a job similar to my 5 week student teaching, and I do not feel as prepared as I think I should feel if I had spent more time student teaching in this grade level. We all have preferences, but we never know where we will be hired. We need to be prepared for anything.

Took a year off before beginning 5th year. I worked at the Lawrence Head Start Program. I received hands-on experience that helped me throughout my 5th year

UKanTeach is great. I loved it for the most part, and I felt like I learned a lot. But I also felt completely unprepared to teach once the full force of my duties kicked in. We spend so much time writing lesson plans in college, and what no one tells you is that you will NEVER ever have time to do that once you start working. They should teach us how to use resources, find lesson plans, implement differentiation, implement flexible grouping, and actually let us practice that rather than have us design units and projects, because honestly, in the first few years of teaching, we are probably not going to be doing that, so much. We are going to be flying by the seat of our pants and getting 6 hours of sleep at night, not designing amazing units. I also wish UKan included a classroom management course, as well as an ed psych course. Loved the instructors, loved the classes for the most part, but there are holes, for sure.

2011-2012 Destination Survey of Teacher Education Graduates Additional Comments

One thing that I would recommend that future students do for the career fields is make a portfolio. I made one for every district I interviewed with (for them to keep) and it really made me stand out with a lot of districts. When I went for second interviews, they still had my original portfolios. The 'Why I Teach' and my philosophies and beliefs really made my teaching style stand out.

Melissa Johnson was INCREDIBLY helpful.

I have moved to my hometown of Madison, Alabama to be with family. I was offered a job and then it was taken from me because of certification reasons-this state makes it nearly impossible to transfer a license. Not the university's problem but just an explanation for my situation.

2009- 2010- 2011-

2010 2011 2012

no

survey

Art 7 2 2 8 5 4 2 2 7 0 3 5 1 5 3 5Total Respondents 12 2 5 8 6 4 2 2 7 0 4 5 2 8 3 6

Early Childhood 4 8 1 1 1 2 5 14 12 5 14Total Respondents 4 8 1 1 1 2 6 14 12 5 14

Elementary 46 30 11 34 29 32 25 47 40 13 20 42 30 33 37 45Total Respondents 64 40 40 42 33 32 26 49 41 13 21 44 33 36 38 45

English/Jour. 10 10 4 8 10 7 9 7 13 3 4 10 9 10 24 10Total Respondents 15 17 16 10 11 7 9 7 13 4 4 11 12 11 24 11

Foreign Lang. 12 6 4 7 4 2 3 2 10 3 5 10 7 12 7 12Total Respondents 15 11 7 9 5 2 3 2 11 3 5 10 8 13 7 12

Mathematics 8 9 5 12 5 11 9 12 11 4 5 12 15 15 16 18Total Respondents 11 15 17 15 5 11 9 12 11 4 5 12 16 16 16 18

Music 3 9 6 4 4 9 10 12 12 5 12 7 8 6 11 23Total Respondents 6 15 8 5 5 10 11 12 13 5 12 7 11 8 11 25

Phys Ed/Health 3 8 0 7 2 1 6 10 7 1 6 6 3 9 5 10Total Respondents 10 12 10 9 3 1 7 11 8 1 7 7 5 11 5 10

Science 13 16 6 9 10 5 7 6 9 2 4 13 6 16 21 28Total Respondents 20 27 8 16 13 5 7 6 10 2 5 13 7 16 21 28

Social Studies 4 11 5 14 11 5 15 8 5 6 4 10 11 10 15 14Total Respondents 9 19 18 18 12 5 15 11 6 7 4 10 12 10 15 15

Total Employed 106 101 43 103 80 80 94 107 115 37 65 121 104 128 144 179Total Respondents 162 158 139 132 93 81 97 113 121 40 69 126 120 141 145 184Total Graduates 149 129 127 152 146 104 158 155 167 178 208 234

Response Rate 41% 83% 62% 63% 76% 74% 83% 38% 44% 81% 72% 79% 70% 79%99%

Seventeen-Year Comparison of Teacher Education Graduates: Total Employed or Attending Graduate School

93% 94%

2008-

2009

87%

2006-

2007

2007-

2008

96% 91%95%

% Employed or

Attending Grad School 65% 64% 31% 78%

Endorsement Area

1995-

1996

1996-

1997

86%

2002-

2003

99% 97% 97%

1997-

1998

1998-

1999

1999-

2000

2001-

2002

2000-

2001

2003-

2004

2004-

2005

2005-

2006

95%