Many enroll in college courses or workshops to continue their education. Many states offer alternative licensure programs to attract people into teaching and to fill certain jobs. Employment growth for secondary school teachers will be more rapid than for kindergarten and elementary school teachers due to students enrollments, but job outlook will vary by geographic area and by subject specialty. Teachers held about 3.1 million jobs in 1996. Of those, about 1.7 million were kindergarten and elementary school teachers and 1.4 million were secondary teachers.
Employment is distributed geographically, much the same as the population.