Profesores Adelante! Recruiting teachers in the target language

Recruiting qualified world language (WL) educators is a continuing challenge in the United States. Limited research has been conducted on attracting potential teacher candidates. Furthermore, recruitment materials are unavailable in target languages, making it difficult for existing WL teachers, as critical advocates for the profession, to incorporate recruitment into their instruction. This study discusses the findings from the implementation of an adapted teacher recruitment curriculum created for secondary students in Early College Experience (ECE) Spanish courses. Using data from pre‐ and post‐intervention surveys, responses to writing prompts, and post‐intervention focus groups, we found that the curriculum contributed to a slight increase in student interest in becoming WL educators, as well as interest in continuing language study beyond high school. However, several teaching‐related student concerns also surfaced, most notably salary and target language ability. We discuss implications for general and WL teacher recruitment, including the importance of targeting potential WL educators in their language classrooms

Curriculum · Intervention (counseling · Mathematics education · Medical education · Pedagogy · Political science · Salary · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Medicine · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching

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• Recruitment and retention of world language teacher education majors

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• Teacher Recruitment and Retention

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• Critical Applied Linguistics

  Alastair Pennycook•Critical Applied Linguistics•2001

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• Aspiring world language teachers

  Open Access•Scott Kissau, Kristin J Davin et al.•Teaching and Teacher Education•2018

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• Filling the Void

  Open Access•Meredith L Wronowski•Education and Urban Society•2018

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• The world language teacher shortage

  Open Access•Pete Swanson, Sally Mason et al.•Foreign Language Annals•2018

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• What Motivates High School Students to Want to Be Teachers? The Role of Salary, Working Conditions, and Societal Evaluations About Occupations in a Comparative Perspective

  Open Access•Seong Won Han, F Borgonovi et al.•American Educational Research…•2018

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• Examining Grow Your Own Programs Across the Teacher Development Continuum

  Open Access•Conra D Gist, Margarita Bianco et al.•Journal of Teacher Education•2019

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