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Teaching salary summary page for the state of New Mexico Salary range (2006 – 2007): $32528 - $58,289 Average teacher salary (2005 – 2006): $41,637 Average beginning teacher salary (2005 – 2006): $31,920 Median household income (2007): $51,452 Median house price (Jun. – Aug. 2006): $100,333 Per-Pupil Spending: $6,606 Cents spent on benefits for every dollar paid as salary: 26.1˘ Grade: Summary: Teach New Mexico is supported by the Educator quality Division of the New Mexico Public Education Department. The website help new teachers find information for alternative licensure options and finding a teaching position. The website also provides experienced teachers information on achieving National Board Certification and New Mexico 3-Tiered Licensure system. Some special education teachers in New Mexico are into paperless work completing mandatory paper works by the used of a web-based system built around FileMaker Pro. FileMaker Pro just made it easy for these teachers to comply on government regulations to update each student’s Individual Educational Plan after each class. The teacher is able to complete the course specifics of the students participating in special education or gifted programs even at home by the used of the web based system. The New Mexico Public Education Department is redesigning standardized test for high school students to follow the progress of each students rather than compare progress of an entire class. The new model will cater to individual needs of each student and help them map out their academic lives after graduation. Flawed ineffective organizing principles across the public education in New Mexico are likely to end with the new program the state has implemented. It needs a lot of courage to initiate to deconstruct current institutional policies to take substantive transformative change. To promote reform, performance and accountability, school boards and superintendents are tasked to oversee community based asset inventories, manage comprehensive resource alignment activities and perform standard assessment methods to guide their strategies in investing state funds. The result is an educational profitable portfolio serve to respond to diverse educational articulated needs of their respective communities. And who else can manage most their investment portfolios but the ones who had been teaching about management and mathematics themselves. New Mexico has been changing strategies and is out to utilize human resources to help improve the lives of their students and of their community. Links: AFT teacher’s salaries in New Mexico Return to the Average Teacher Salary Main Page
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