Recruitment Strategies
This page includes a searchable database of strategies, programs, and reports related to the recruitment of teachers, something we also think about as activating the desire within many students to serve their communities in a meaningful way, with a special emphasis on recruiting for diversity. Specific characteristics of future teachers are listed when the resource specifically targets those populations. Resources can be searched by keyword and filtered by population and/or type of resource.
We welcome new strategy suggestions; you may submit them using the Recruitment and Strategies Suggestion form. Generally, these resources are available at no cost or through a subscription carried by CSU campus libraries.
View a list of barriers to teaching that have been used to address some of the real and perceived obstacles that teaching candidates face.
We welcome new ideas for activating and recruiting future teachers; use the Recruitment Strategies form to submit additional suggestions to the list.
This 2019 report from an AACTE Network Improvement Committee is an invaluable resource for CSU teacher educators. Among the report's key topics are:
- Submitted by
- Ken Futernick (via Ernest Black)
- Populations
- Paraprofessionals, Students of color
- Strategies
- Advising and mentoring, Financial assistance, Test prep assistance
- Links
This initiative targets current credential students who are pursuing credentials in other fields or multiple subject credentialed teachers who are at risk or may have already lost their job and who may be able to qualify for a foundational level math or science credential by earning a supplementary authorization.
- Submitted by
- CSU Los Angeles
- Populations
- Credential Student, Math, Other graduate, Science
- Strategies
- Other
We have made great efforts to recruit from within the College of Science. Specifically, the MSTI Scholarship Program (which replaces our Noyce Scholarship), the PhysTEC program, and the Bio LA program heavily advertise to students at the sophomore level.
- Submitted by
- Cal Poly Pomona
- Populations
- Math, Science, Undergraduate
- Strategies
- Advertising, Promotion by non-ed faculty
We have made great efforts to recruit from within the College of Science. Specifically, the MSTI Scholarship Program (which replaces our Noyce Scholarship), the PhysTEC program, and the Bio LA program heavily advertise to students at the sophomore level.
- Submitted by
- Cal Poly Pomona
- Populations
- Math, Science, Undergraduate
- Strategies
- Advertising, Promotion by non-ed faculty
Cites some of the research on the benefits of a diverse workforce. Describes several programs throughout the U.S. that are successfully recruiting and supporting students of color into the teaching profession.
- Submitted by
- Ken Futernick
- Populations
- Students of color
- Strategies
- Research Report
A Minor in Natural Sciences prepares students to pass the CSET Subtests #118 and #119 – which are the CSET Subtests for the FLGS Credential.
- Submitted by
- CSU Fullerton
- Populations
- Math, Science, Undergraduate
- Strategies
- Other
Under the direction of the school of education and funded from TRP, local 7-12 teacher leaders in math are featured in a new set of recruitment videos.
- Submitted by
- Humboldt State
- Populations
- Math, Undergraduate
- Strategies
- Social media
In this important 2019 study, authors Richard Ingersoll, Henry May, and Gregory Collins examine recruitment, employment, and retention patterns of white and non-white teachers. From the abstract:
- Submitted by
- Ken Futernick
- Populations
- Credential Student, Students of color
- Strategies
- Research Report
- Links