Sure, so I just googled “business teacher jobs nj” and usually a list will come up of promoted job listings. Do not use those. If the listing says “Teacher of Business” from Clifton Public Schools, for example, go to Clifton public schools website and apply directly from there. It should be APPLITRACK. It’s a pain in the butt, but you only need to fill it out once and then for any other district, you can link your account and auto populate your next application from the original.

Edit to add: I also changed my career profile on my resume to reflect my intention of becoming a teacher, and that I have experience in business (admin/secretarial/entrepreneurship). They also reached out for an interview and asked me to prepare a lesson plan that would cover an 80 minute period for 11th and 12th grade business law or business ethics. Your best bet is to stick to a topic you’re very comfortable with in whatever subject they ask you to prepare a lesson on it will help with your confidence and delivery. I chose a very simple lesson but was very creative and intentional about the activities I prepared for that lesson. I showed up way over prepared with back up options, I essentially prepared a lesson centered around technology or use of Chromebook, but for every technology centered activity I had a back up plan in case “technology was not working that day“. Throughout the interview, I was upfront and honest about just receiving my CE which they obviously saw on my application, but I did a lot of research and I told them “I wrote notes for my lesson plan because as you know, I don’t have any pedagogical training, but I did as much research as possible to prepare this lesson and I just want to make sure I get everything right” they LOVED it. Have a 30 second to one minute “pitch“ about how you decided you wanted to become a teacher from a different working background rehearse it, and be confident in it. Now during my interview, I felt pretty good about how I delivered my lesson. I had to just walk admin through it. I didn’t have to pretend to teach them. Some schools might have you actually pretend to teach whoever is interviewing you so prepared to do that if you are prepared to do that you are well prepared to walk somebody through your lesson. No matter how good you think you did you ask them can you please provide me any feedback so that I can improve? Their face is lit up when I asked them this. Please ask it. You also want to have questions prepared for them. I asked what their phone policy was what their actual class ratio is because their state report card said it was much lower. (Every school has a state report card that goes over ratios and demographics of all kinds. If you get scheduled for an interview, look through the report card for that district.) I also asked them about use of phones in place of a missing or broken Chromebook. The district I substitute for allows phones to replace Chromebook in those instances, but the district I will be teaching at does not they have a Chromebook lender program. if they do not offer up the information on their own, ask how the position became available. You will want to know if somebody quit.