California is a dichotomy. Yes, it is liberal-in large metropolitan areas
mostly. The valley and southern California is very conservative. For
example look at Prop. 8. The conservative vote prevailed in California.
Even Iowa is more liberal on the gay marriage issue than California.

I live and work in the "liberal" San Francisco area. I've had student
teachers. I haven't seen "humanistic ideology" coming from the colleges
nor have I seen student centered teaching as opposed to teacher directed.
What I have seen is student teachers approaching teaching trying various
methods-group work, multisensory approaches, use of technology, etc.
California credentialing is very strict-just ask anyone who has come from
out of state. My school district-a large diverse district in the SF bay
area-is very careful to avoid becoming a "jump on the latest fad"
district-as I think most districts are. We're pretty mainstream.

It's interesting to me that people across the country assign labels to
California without seeing first hand what really goes on here.

On 6/26/09, Good choice! wrote:
> I'm originally from Oklahoma and wish I could go back. California has
> been my home for a long time but it's just too "out" there for me. I'm
> more small town, conservative. I've also read articles about how
> California's teaching colleges are pushing humanistic ideology,
> student-centered teaching rather than teacher directed. I just have a
> different philosophy.
>
> Oh boy, wait to see what others post after reading this! lol
>
>
> On 6/26/09, Casey LE wrote:
>> My husband and I have decided to stay in Texas. I can't believe it's
>> that bad in California right now. I really didn't realize the extent
>> to which California is messed up financially.
>>
>> My husband said we may try again in a few years, altho it seems to me
>> as if Texas is just all around better and sounder than California.
>>
>>
>> On 6/24/09, No jobs in CA sorry nfm wrote:
>>> On 6/19/09, Novalee wrote:
>>>> On 6/19/09, Casey LE wrote:
>>>>> So my husband is a lawyer and he REALLY wants to move to
>>>>> California to be with his family. We currently live in
>>>>> Dallas, Texas. I am fully certified in Texas and have
>>>>> taught 2 years. I do not want to move unless I have a job,
>>>>> and I've heard it is REALLY bad.
>>>>>
>>>>> What is the job situation like? We'd be targeting the
>>>>> Riverside, San Bernardino, Corona, Rancho Cucamonga, Inland
>>>>> Empire area.
>>>>>
>>>>> My certification is ESL/Middle School/4-8 and I've taught
>>>>> 6th Grade math for the past 2 years.
>>>> Ditto to sounds like a bad idea!
>>>> I'm a special ed teacher in New Mexico and applied and
>>>> received a license from Cal last year. I have ESL endorsements
>>>> in both states and speak Spanish. I've been on Edjoin.org for
>>>> over a year and was interviewed for one position in all of
>>>> that time. Beside that, there are waivers on my license that
>>>> require me to repeat my level 1 training over again in their
>>>> state because they don't like the training I got in NM. Think
>>>> twice and three times before leaping!

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