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.
According to a Cal Poly Pomona website This link will take you to an external website in a new tab., "The College of Education & Integrative Studies (CEIS) has received a $1.1 million federal grant to help alleviate the shortage of special education teachers in Southern California.
- Submitted by
- Ken Futernick
- Populations
- Special Education
- Strategies
- Financial assistance
- Links
We provide scholarships to math/science Internship Boot Camp participants.
- Submitted by
- CSU Fresno
- Populations
- Math, Science
- Strategies
- Financial assistance, Professional conferences
A team of faculty in the School of Education serves as mentors to enrolled who have signed up for the "Be A Teacher" (BAT) pathway. These faculty identify students by their subject area and pair them with a mentor.
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- CSU San Marcos
- Populations
- High School, Undergraduate
- Strategies
- Advising and mentoring, SCTA and other clubs
We make 5-minute visits to mathematics classes to talk to students about the rewards of a teaching career and the need for math and science teachers in California. Students are provided MSTI brochures, web addresses and on campus resources for more information about pathways to credentials and financial aid.
- Submitted by
- San Diego State
- Populations
- Math, Science, Undergraduate
- Strategies
- Financial assistance, Presentations, Promotion by non-ed faculty
The Sisters in Mathematics and Academic Relations in Teaching (SMART) Girls club provides mentoring for women mathematics majors in the teaching track at CSUF and has helped increase retention among this population.
- Submitted by
- CSU Fullerton
- Populations
- Math
- Strategies
- Advising and mentoring, SCTA and other clubs
Candidates who have attended our CSET preparation workshops, but are not fully qualified for admission to the credential program, are encouraged to apply for exceptional admission or ITA status.
- Submitted by
- CSU Northridge
- Populations
- Undergraduate
- Strategies
- Applications, surveys, etc., Other, Test prep assistance
In the past year, we have expanded upon the STEM early field experience course, which places undergraduates (both future elementary and high school teachers) in after-school settings to conduct weekly NGSS aligned engineering design activities with the public school students who attend.
- Submitted by
- Sacramento State
- Populations
- Math, Science, Undergraduate
- Strategies
- Early field experiences
Cal Poly SLO has a STEM Early Field Experience Pathway. You can't choose what you haven't experienced. This pathway lets undergraduates work with kids, then work with kids as a teacher would, and then work in work in actual classrooms with actual students. Here is our pathway:
- Submitted by
- Chance Hoellwarth
- Populations
- Math, Science, Undergraduate
- Strategies
- Early field experiences