Tennessee educators looking to teach online can teach in our partner schools across the country over livestreamed video. If you have a standard or professional license in Tennessee, Proximity Learning can support you through the license reciprocity process to work in states where this is required.
Working as a teacher for Proximity Learning has helped teachers find better work/life balance, teach to students across the county, and improve technological skills.
Proximity Learning teachers are not only certified, background checked, and experienced, but they're also dynamic, engaging, and caring. Learn more about our online teaching jobs in Tennessee.
Teacher vacancies are not new to Tennessee, but they have been exacerbated by the pandemic. The abrupt shift to virtual learning with little training caused excess early retirements and resignations leaving empty classrooms in their wake. The Tennessee Education Report states, “This staffing shortage is the result of the well-documented failure of Tennessee’s school funding formula, the Basic Education Program (BEP), to adequately fund the cost of education for all students, especially students in the state’s poorest districts and schools."
Ultimately, the most recent teacher shortage report shows 1,200 teacher vacancies plus 1,483 under-qualified teachers in Tennessee during the 2020-21 school year.
In April 2021, Frontline Education surveyed 1,200 district leaders to discover that two out of three respondents reported having teacher shortages in their schools. This is a record high since launching the survey in 2015.
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