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page 6 daily nebraskan friday, march 13, 1981 Officials: Prospects brighter for qualified teacher By Betsy Miller Teaching jobs in Lincoln elementary and secondary schools may be a little easier to come by if a teacher has specific qualifications and preferences, according to an official of UNL and the Lincoln Public Schools. Lauren Holcombe, who has been with the personnel department of the Lincoln School System for 13 years, said that in the elementary schools, more jobs are open tor teachers willing to work in the intermediary grades. Intermediary grades are usually considered to be fourth, fifth and sixth grade, Holcombe said. He said the reason these grades have more job potential is that most elementary education teachers want to get jobs in the lower grades. "More students tend to want to work with the little people," he said. Holcombe said opportunities at the kindergarten and lower primary level grades are "very tight" from the employees' point of view. However, he said that employers seem to think there are fewer qualified candidates for teaching jobs than there were a few years ago. In secondary schools, the subjects employees are able to teach are more important than the grades they are qualified to teach, according to Lee Dejonge, UNL director of teacher placement. Police report vandalism, arrest University Police reported vandalism to a car parked near Abel Hall and reported the arrest of a student in con nection with auto larceny. Sunday prayer time for Atlanta's children The Nebraska Coalition of Black Women will be request ing a community-wide special prayer or moment of silent meditation for the 20 children who have been killed in Atlanta during the past two years. "Prayer Sunday" will be in conjunction with a national rally scheduled in Atlanta on Sunday. It is hoped that the prayer, which is requested to be held during church services, will be viewed as a "gesture of support for the city and a show of concern for the families of the missing and murdered children," a coalition press release said. MMMHMMDflBMIMBHHMMMMBiaHM HOUSE of FLOWERS I 0 Q 8 226 S. 11th 476 2775 We Have SHAMROCK Plant i s and GREEN Carnations tSrJ For 5 W St. Patricks Day! WORLD WIDE LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Pershing Municipal Auditorium Exhibit Hail Lower Level March 13, 14 & 15. 1981 Worldwide 4 '10 P M i. A : i ; r- M.' N A : A ' M A A ' ALL ANTIQUES ARE FOR SALE 1ST I A violent night storm. A mysterious taven on a lonely road. A group of strangers a delirious woman in black, a nameless vagabond who revels in the "glorious" storm, a harried governor, his I ' J wife and daughter and his $f daughter's fiance seek .hn!lu A rrah r1 thunder A flash of lightning. A gun shot! Anything can happen before dawn. Someone apparently used a beer bottle to crack a jeep's windshield in the Abel Hall fire lane at 860 N. Vine St., police said. The damage was estimated at $250 and occurred between Wednesday night and Thursday morn ing. Also Investigator Ron Lundy arrested a 20-year-old man from Abel Hall Wednesday in connection with the theft of a cassette and 8-track player from a car. The play ers were taken between March 4 and March 1 1 from a car parked in the Area 2 lot at 19th and T streets. The players were worth $ 150. Investigator Randy Klcager said the arrest may clear three separate cases of stolen tape players. DeJonge said that for high school teachers, endorse ments in different subjects are very important. An endorsement is a supplement to a major. For example, a teacher may get a major in secondary education with a math endorsement. Currently, Dejonge said that most employers seem to have trouble finding teachers with science and trade industry endorsements. Also teachers capable of teaching agriculture, special education, music, industrial arts, math, distributive education, speech pathology and Spanish are in demand, Dejonge said. In fields such as math and science, it is usually tougher to find qualified teachers because people able to teach these subjects may get jobs in industry, Holcombe said. The teacher shortage in math and science is not getting any better, while special education teachers appear to be increasing yearly, Holcombe said. Dejonge noted that schools in Lincoln don't seem to have a big problem filling teaching spots. However, if stu dents are willing to work in a small town, there arc usually more job openings. "Everybody likes to go toward the bright lights," he said. Both Holcombe and Dejonge said Lincoln and the surrounding area have provided plenty of employment opportunities for UNL graduates. UNL will be holding its annual Teacher Interview Fair March 19 and 20 in the Nebraska Union. 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