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Excellence in Education
Teaching in Hawaii means personal involvement in making school improvements through dedicated, creative collaboration at all levels of the school system. Schools are viewed as partnerships involving students, teachers, parents, administration, business, and the community.
Education is everybody’s business. Hawaii is the only state with a single, unified school system. The DOE operates 255 regular schools and 3 special schools. Student enrollment exceeds 182,000.
Employment Opportunities The Department of Education employs almost 13,000 teachers, librarians and counselors. The renewed emphasis on excellence in education has contributed to an increase in teachers’ salaries, reduced class size, improved curricula, and expanded educational resources. Geographically, job opportunities occur on all islands—Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and Kauai. However, the greatest demand for new teachers occurs on the neighbor islands and in the more rural areas of Oahu, away from the major population center of Honolulu.
Qualification Requirements The Hawaii Teacher Standards Board requires candidates to meet licensure requirements. They are:
The Department of Education requires completion of a structured interview with an authorized professional staff interviewer. Teachers are eligible for tenure after completing two consecutive semesters of probation. A teacher must possess a teaching license before starting probation. Sometimes a teacher is permitted to begin employment without fully meeting standards. In these cases, employment is temporary to a maximum of three school years and these teachers do not have an opportunity to earn tenure. (huyehara081021)
Performance Expectations The Hawaii Public School System offers a wide variety of teaching opportunities for the most qualified and talented teachers. These are teachers who are caring, competent, effective, and committed to obtaining the best results for our students.
The Department of Education is looking for informed, vibrant, and committed teachers who can make things happen for our learners. We seek those who can invigorate the learning process so as to make a difference to each pupil. Hawaii is a special place with students representing a variety of multi-ethnic backgrounds. Therefore, the professional staff must be sensitive to the enriching contributions that island students can make to the total teaching-learning environment.
Salary and Compensation
Application Procedure If you meet the requirements for teaching and have a strong desire to nurture and develop students to become contributing members of an educated society, the Department encourages you to apply for teaching or specialist positions in Hawaii’s public schools. School librarians and school counselors are specialist positions. To apply for employment, obtain a complete application from the Teacher Recruitment Section as indicated below:
By mail: State of Hawaii, Department of Education Department’s website: http://doe.k12.hi.us, go to “Jobs” link The packet contains the Application for Professional Employment for Teachers, School Librarians, and School Counselors. Instructions for completing the form are also included. Once the Office of Human Resources receives the application and all documents, arrangements will be made for a personal interview with an authorized Department representative.
Employee Benefits The State of Hawaii and Department of Education offers many employee benefits for eligible DOE employees, which include the following:
Equal Opportunity The Department of Education does not discriminate in its educational
policies, programs, and activities on the basis of sex, race, color,
religion, national origin, age, and disability in accordance with Title IX
of the Education Amendments of 1972, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of
1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Age Discrimination
Act of 1975, and Americans with Disabilities Act of 1991. The
Department of Education does not discriminate in its employment
policies, programs, and activities on the basis of sexual orientation,
arrest and court record, and National Guard
Other Sources of Information For more information about working and living in Hawaii, contact the Chamber of Commerce for the island on which you plan to reside as well as the Hawaii Visitors Bureau. The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii (Oahu) Hawaii Island Chamber of Commerce
Kauai Island Chamber of Commerce
Maui Island Chamber of Commerce Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau
Teaching in Hawaii Office of Human Resources/Personnel Recruitment and Management Branch Webmaster follow-up: This is most current copy as of 3/31/08.
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....Our standards set the course, while students, families, and community fill the sails with expectation as we voyage with the treasure of bright, young minds ready to lead the way to the future.
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The elected Hawaii State Board of Education (BOE) and the State
Superintendent of Education, appointed by the BOE, are committed to
achieving excellence in Hawaii’s public schools.
The Department of Education (DOE) has adopted standards-based
reform and the Hawaii Content and Performance Standards,
establishing high expectations of academic and professional
performance and accountability at all levels in our statewide public
school system. Professional educators are the cornerstone of our
mission to prepare Hawaii’s youngsters for the 21st Century.
Most of Hawaii’s schools embrace the
concept of School Community Councils
(SCC), which involves shared decisionmaking,
encourages parental participation,
provides administrative flexibility, and
empowers school communities.
To become and to remain
a part of our educational
experience, teachers
must be dedicated to the
profession and to the
students. They must show
result-producing attitudes
and abilities; they must
perceive learners as
individuals and must
empathize with them.
Educators must lead by example and empower students to become
literate, caring, effectively functioning, and constructive members
of society. 
The collective bargaining contract
establishes the annual salary rates
for new teachers. Such information
is published annually to reflect
the most current salaries in the
document “Teachers’ Salary
Schedule.” 
Up to six years of non-DOE teaching
experience is accepted for salary
placement. Experience must be
officially verified before being
credited and must have been
in a recognized K-12 public or
private school. Certain active
military experience, up to four
years, may also be used in
combination with acceptable 
teaching experience for salary
credit, allowing an individual
to enter at a higher step. A
combination of teaching and
military experience may not
exceed six years.
If you qualify and successfully complete the application process, your name enters the Department’s teacher hiring pool. The Personnel Regional Office refers a list of eligible applicants to each vacancy for employment consideration and selection. The school principal and/or designated representative(s) will interview and consider referred candidates and make a final selection for the vacancy. This process permits selection of the best qualified candidate for each teaching assignment. Qualified applicants from the teacher applicant pool will be referred by matching the requirements of the vacancy with each candidate’s comparative strengths based on the Department’s assessments of application information, including academic preparation, teaching experience, personal interview results, college transcripts, geographic and grade level placement preferences, and other sources of information. Depending on the hiring demands for your teaching specialty, you may be referred to many school interviews before being selected for employment from the teacher applicant pool.
Flexible Spending Accounts. Island Flex flexible spending
accounts allows the payment of eligible health care and dependent
care expenses with pre-tax money. For more information, please
contact Comprehensive Financial Planning, Inc. at 596-7006 (Oahu)
or 1-877-550-5552 (Neighbor Islands).
participation, as well
as on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, and
disability, in accordance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of
1967, Americans with Disabilities Act
of 1991, Equal Pay Act of 1963, and
Chapter 378, Part I, Hawaii
Revised Statutes.