Museum, History, Library, Archives, Art, Tourism, Parks & Rec, etc Jobs in Michigan ~ Updated 10/30/14

Best of luck with your museum job search!

Museums

• Administration
  • Annual Fund Coordinator Dearborn (9/17)
  • Volunteer Manager Detroit (9/18)
  • Director of Development Flint (9/29)
  • Studio Administrative Assistant Dearborn (10/3)
  • Executive + Support Assistant Detroit (10/7)
  • Public Relations Director East Lansing (10/8)
  • Development and Special Events Manager (10/23)
  • Executive Director Detroit (10/30)
• Collections
  • Conservation Specialist Dearborn (10/3)
  • Archivist Muskegon (10/6)
• Education
  • Program Coordinator Rochester (9/19)
  • Interpretive Fellowship Detroit (9/30)
  • Education Coordinator Farmington Hills (10/5)
  • Interpreter Milford (10/7)
  • Science Works Instructor Ann Arbor (10/10)
  • Tour Guide Detroit (10/10)
  • Director of Programs Ann Arbor (10/16)
  • Humanities Program Coordinator Dearborn (10/17)
  • Public Programs Assistant Detroit (10/23)
  • Program Scheduler Detroit (10/30)
• Exhibits
  • Exhibit and Environment Designer Warren (9/17)
• Other
  • Special Events Manager Detroit (9/12)
  • Visitor Services Team Member Grosse Pointe Shores (9/15)
  • Guest Services Associate Dearborn (9/17)
  • Website Editor Bloomfield Hills (9/30)
  • Planetarium Coordinator Detroit (10/16)
  • Visitor Services Representative Detroit (10/16)
  • Sales Associate Detroit (10/16)
  • Historic House Leader Grosse Pointe Shores (10/21)

Libraries

• Library Assistant Rochester (9/17)
• Librarian Warren (9/17)
• Library Assistant Grosse Pointe (9/17)
• Librarian East Lansing (9/18)
• Curation Archivist Ann Arbor (9/22)
• Page Genesee County (9/22)
• Library Overnight Supervisor Rochester (10/1)
• Librarian Warren (10/1)

Other Cultural Organizations

• Detroit Symphony Orchestra (several positions, not part of the band) (10/2)

Zoos

• Mammal Department Supervisor Royal Oak (10/2)

Teaching and Other Education Jobs in Michigan ~ Updated 10/30/14

Jobs are posted here the day they are announced. I will attempt to keep the list updated by deleting outdated posts. Best of luck finding your perfect teaching position!

Elementary Teachers

• K-5 Teachers Dearborn Heights (10/1)
• Long Term Sub Music Lake Orion (10/2)
• Long Term Sub Spanish Lake Orion (10/2)
• Long Term Sub 1st Grade Clio (10/2)
• Elementary/MS Art Lapeer (10/2)
• 4th Grade Teacher St. Clair Shores (10/3)
• Art Teacher Detroit (10/6)
• Spanish Detroit (10/6)
• Music Longterm Sub Rochester Hills (10/10)
• PE Teacher Mt. Pleasant (10/10)
• Art Coldwater (10/10)
• Spanish Coldwater (10/10)
• 1st Grade Redford (10/10)
• Art Brighton (10/10)
• Kindergarten Brighton (10/10)
• 3rd Grade Troy (10/10)
• Music Plymouth-Canton (10/10)
• ESL Dearborn (10/13)
• 3rd Grade Battle Creek (10/16)
• Technology Teacher Clarkston (10/16)
• Challenge Program Coordinator Davison (10/16)
• 4th Grade Hamtramck (10/21)
• K-5 Teachers Dearborn Heights (10/23)
• Homeschool Teacher West Bloomfield (10/23)
• Computer Teacher Detroit (10/30)
• Elementary Teacher Brighton (10/30)
• Elementary Teacher Howell (10/30)

Secondary Teachers

• HS Health St. Clair Shores (9/29)
• HS English Southfield (9/30)
• HS Math Dearborn (10/1)
• MS Vocal Music Bloomfield Hills (10/1)
• HS/MS Teachers Detroit (10/2)
• HS Biology/Environmental Science Beecher (10/2)
• HS Spanish West Bloomfield (10/2)
• MS Social Studies Long Term Sub St. Clair Shores (10/3)
• MS Science Long Term Sub St. Clair Shores (10/3)
• Math Support Fenton (10/3)
• Art Teacher Detroit (10/6)
• ELA Dearborn Heights (10/6)
• HS Math and HS Social Studies Teachers Detroit (10/7)
• MS Math, Social Studies ELA Teacher Detroit (10/7)
• MS Social Studies and Language Arts Teacher Flint (10/7)
• MS Math Science Social Studies English Teachers Flint (10/7)
• Woodshop, Mechanical Drafting, PE Teacher Troy (10/8)
• ESL Dearborn (10/13)
• MS Long Term LA sub (10/16)
• MS Math Intervention Specialist Berkley (10/16)
• Teachers Grand Rapids (10/16)
• MS ELA Long Term Sub Swartz Creek (10/16)
• Technology Teacher Farmington Hills/Auburn Hills (10/16)
• Social Studies Substitute Zeeland (10/21)
• HS Math Bloomfield Hills (10/21)
• HS Vocal Music Bloomfield Hills (10/21)
• 6-12 Science Dearborn Heights (10/23)
• HS Math Wixom (10/23)
• History Clarkston (10/30)

Special Education Teachers

• HS Special Education Hazel Park (10/1)
• Resource Room Troy (10/6)
• HS special education Dryden (10/16)
• Special Education Detroit (10/21)
• Special Education Warren (10/30)

Early Childhood

• GSRP Teacher Grand Blanc (10/16)
• Early Childhood Program Coordinator Whitehall (10/23)
• Preschool Teacher Rochester Hills (10/30)

Paraprofessionals

• Plymouth-Canton Many Openings (9/22)
• Library Parapro Plymouth-Canton (9/23)
• ESL Paraeducator Troy (10/21)

Other

• High School Media Specialist Mt. Morris (10/3)
• Homebound Teacher Grand Blanc (10/3)
• Education Coordinator Farmington Hills (10/5)
• Youth Development Professional Washington Twp. (10/7)
• Technology Teacher and Coach Bloomfield Hills (10/7)
• Enrichment Instructor Oakland County (10/16)
• Live-in Residential Educational Counselor Detroit (10/16)
• Librarian Dryden (10/16)
• ESL Program Implementation Coordinator (10/21)
• Academic Assessment Specialist Saulte Sainte Marie (10/23)
• After School Chess Teacher Metro Detroit (10/23)

Our Student Teaching Abroad experience was featured in the TEPD newsletter!

The newsletter, The Focus, is from CMU’s Teacher Education and Professional Development Department. There is a short article about student teaching in the Dominican Republic.

Read the newsletter here: https://www.cmich.edu/colleges/ehs/program/teach/at-ehs/documents/The%20Focus%20Newsletter/thefocus_january.pdf

Looking for a Government class lesson plan?

If you are teaching your government class about political parties here is a week-long unit!

I created and used this powerpoint in the 12th grade class I taught in the Dominican Republic. They were learning about U.S. government using Magruder’s American Government textbook. This is from chapter 5. The powerpoint includes the lecture slides, practice quizzes after each section, anticipatory sets, and a group project. My students loved the group project, they were very creative! Check out their work at the link below.
 You can also download the test I created to be given after this unit is taught.

Lesson/Powerpoint download: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/American-Government-Political-Parties-PowerPoint-1024030

Examples of my students work on the project: https://misshanel.wordpress.com/2013/12/06/i-forgot-to-write-in-my-journal-yesterday/

Chapter 5 Test: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Magruders-American-Government-Chapter-5-Test-Political-Parties-1024036

 

Have you enjoyed following my student teaching blog?

If you have enjoyed reading about my adventures in student teaching, and thought some of my lessons looked good, please consider supporting my efforts!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Hillary-Hanel

I am (slowly) putting many of my lesson plans and resources online for other educators to use. I am using the website TeachersPayTeachers.com to showcase and sell my work. My items are mostly priced at $1, but my maximum price is $3. I also have some free lessons in my store!

Why would you buy lesson plans from a brand new teacher? Most of the lessons I have up for sale were taught while being observed by one of my university professors and they all received very good feedback. I taught most of the lessons multiple times each day, and worked out any kinks throughout the day. The 15 day unit plan I prepared was for a History Teaching Methods class, so I worked closely with my professor to develop the unit.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments on my store or work, I would love to hear from you!

Thank you for your continued support! All proceeds from my lesson plan sales will go toward the Hillary-Needs-to-Pay-her-Student-Loans Fund. 🙂

Graduation!

I made it! I have officially graduated from Central Michigan University with my Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education degree!

I began my new job as an educator at a children’s museum. I am very excited for this opportunity!

Here are the 6 of us Dominican Republic student teachers! We made it home to Michigan just in time for a snowstorm!

Thanks to everyone who has supported me as I worked to complete my degree. I have wonderful family and friends who have enriched my life so much.

I am hoping to start working on my master’s degree next fall!

It’s already been 5 weeks in the DR??

Somehow time has just flown by and we are heading back to Michigan tomorrow!

Last night we went out to dinner with our professor, Karen, our coordinator Bernadette, and our host moms Adela and Estela. It was so much fun! The restaurant was called El Conuco and besides yummy food there was music and dancing for entertainment. The dancers were so talented, I cannot believe the moves they were doing. The girls were spinning so fast I don’t know how they could stand up after. They taught some of us to dance too. I am an awful dancer and I didn’t want to be the entertainment for the whole restaurant so I joined the band instead. I do really want to take salsa dancing lessons when I get home because it looks like so much fun!

Today was our last day at school, and it was another half day of exams. My students took their Spanish and Sociales exams. I felt bad because I wasn’t much help to them because they obviously study Spanish at a much higher level than I am capable of and I do not know much about Dominican social studies. But, it’s not something I should worry about because I wasn’t expecting to become fluent in Spanish in the short time I’ve spent here. I took 3 years of Spanish in high school and an intermediate course during college, but it has been 4 years since I’ve used it at all, so it took me a few weeks just to get used to the language again. I was looking through some old papers that I wrote for my Spanish 201 class and I was pretty good at Spanish back then, I wish I had kept practicing! I was proud of myself for writing a thank you note to my host family in Spanish though! So when I get home, the plan is to take Spanish and salsa lessons!

Thank you to my host teacher, Ms. Pacheco, my students, everyone at St. Thomas School, my professors, my host family, and of course the other 5 student teachers for making this an unforgettable experience. I will forever treasure the memories made here!

Top 10 Reasons I’m Excited to go Home and Not Ready to Leave

I’m ready to head back to Michigan because…

10. There is hot water at home. I can’t wait to take a warm shower.

9. I can brush my teeth with water from the faucet without potentially poisoning myself.

8. Going to a restaurant and ordering a water doesn’t mean paying for a bottle of water.

7. Feeling like I will probably survive car trips. I feel like kissing the ground every time I step out of a car alive here.

6. I can drink milk! It’s weird how much I love milk (I sometimes drink a half gallon a day). Milk is so strange here, it is super pasteurized and is kept warm on the store shelves for months. I can’t.

5. Knowing how much things cost. 500 pesos? Is that a lot? I don’t know. Take 5000 pesos out at the ATM, sure!

4. Not getting hissed at every time I walk down the street. Yes, we are a group of light skinned and blonde young women, but staring and hissing is unnecessary, and is not going to make us like you, sir.

3. Normal doors. The door to my apartment has a normal lock, a deadbolt, a chain lock, a latch lock, and bars with a padlock. The hallway to my bedroom also has padlocked bars. It literally takes 5 minutes to get out with all of the keys involved. What if there was a fire?

2. Having independence. I love just getting in the car by myself and going to do whatever it is I need to do. I can’t even go to the grocery store alone here!

1. To see my friends and family, of course! So much fun is planned for this weekend in celebration of graduation. I can’t wait to see everyone!

I’m really going to miss…

10. Being able to count on beans and rice at dinner every night. Lula makes the yummiest rice!

9. Being greeted by Adela when she gets home from work. She is the sweetest lady ever! I’m going to miss hearing “Hola chicos! ¿Como estan?”

8. Practicing my Spanish skills with native speakers. I really loved talking with Adela in Spanish. I want to take Spanish lessons when I get home because it would be so great to be fluent.

7. Everyday adventures. If you’ve kept up on my blog, you know what I mean.

6. Warm weather. When I looked at the weather this morning it was 4 degrees at home. I was chilly when it was 72 the other day. I will be the one at graduation with a snowsuit, blanket, boots, and mittens under my gown.

5. Panadero! The bread seller rides his bike cart in front of our house every evening yelling panadero. Estela always goes out to buy delicious bread for us. How convenient!

4. Colmado. Basically a 7-11, but you can hang out with your friends and watch the baseball game over a cold presidente.

3. Knowing that the ocean is so close.

2. Relaxing on the patio with good friends. The 6 of us student teachers have gotten pretty close in the past few weeks. Spending our evenings on the patio with a game of euchre and conversation has been great.

1. Time passing so slowly. Dominican minutes last twice as long as American minutes. If it feels like I’ve been at school for 4 hours, it’s only 10am. It seems like we have endless hours of free time after we have finished all of our work.

 

One Last Trip to La Zona Colonial

As I mentioned yesterday, it is exam week for all 3 of our schools in Santo Domingo. All of use student teachers either have a half day of giving exams or no school at all, so our professor decided to excuse us from school so that we could spend one more day exploring and doing some souvenir shopping.

We went to the Colonial Zone this morning and visited a market. It was set up kind of like a flea market in the U.S. with people selling all sorts of goods. I was glad that we had Estela, one of our host moms, with us to help us barter. If she hadn’t been there we would have been charged so much more! We are not used to bartering at home, so it is pretty difficult, at least for me. Shopping was very overwhelming because the merchants were so persistent that we buy something from their shop. They would say things like “it is free to look” to try to get us into their store. I ended up with some very nice gifts for my friends and family, I’m so excited to see them in a few days! I also bought some jewelry for myself. I love wearing cute rings so I bought a larimar ring and an amber ring. Larimar is a type of stone that is only Found in the Dominican Republic. It is the pretty blue one in the picture. I have just always liked amber (fossilized tree resin) so I was excited to find that in many shops here too.

After the Colonial Zone we went to lunch at a Mexican restaurant near our apartment. It was delicious! I highly recommend Gastronomia Mexicana to anyone in Santo Domingo!

I forgot to mention in yesterday’s blog that I tested out Dominican Taco Bell. Anyone who knows me knows that I am quite the Taco Bell connoisseur. The verdict: Fiesta Fries are not as fun as they sound, but they have way better desserts than are offered in the U.S. I had a dulce de leche quesadilla that was quite yummy. Also, crunch wraps are crunchy wraps. Remember this, because I learned that they don’t know what you mean if you just say crunch wrap. I think it’s funny that there are so many American fast food and casual dining restaurants here and that they use the same (or very similar) names (in English) for the items on their menus.

Exam Week for St. Thomas and CMU Students

It is funny to think that this time last year I was studying for exams in classes such as Ecology, Education Theory, and Museum Programming and now I am sitting on my balcony in the Dominican Republic relaxing because I have completed all of the requirements for graduation. Graduation is THIS WEEK. And real life is starting Monday since I have a big girl job. How crazy is that?!

My students are under pressure this week too, because it is midterms week. Today the high school students completed their math and social studies exams during the half day of school. Tomorrow there is no school because it is a “study day.” Then another half day Wednesday. If exams were like that in my high school or college midterms would be a piece of cake! Like regular school days, exam days here are very different from what I’ve experienced at home. Students are still pretty talkative even though they are taking an important test. The teacher whose class the test was for would walk around to the different classrooms to answer questions. They were giving a lot of help because students had tons of questions. I felt like I was not very helpful at all today.This is what I accomplished: Helped a girl put her hair in a ponytail because she had a broken finger. Updated my LinkedIn profile. Made the finishing touches on my electronic portfolio. I did not know how to help because if it was my class I would have been much more strict on the talking issue, but I did not want to overstep any boundaries because I realize there is a difference in expectations here. Or maybe I’m just a “mean lady,” as a little boy at the museum once told me when I saved him from running into traffic…

Good luck to all my friends at CMU who are slaving over a hot scantron this week 🙂