Profesores Adelante! Recruiting teachers in the target language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8937559 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michele Back (0000-0003-0853-5141, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Neag School of Education University of Connecticut Storrs Connecticut, corresponding author), Joseph Dean (0000-0002-0239-3907, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Neag School of Education University of Connecticut Storrs Connecticut) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 613-633 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foreign Language Annals (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-718X • E-ISSN: 1944-9720 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/flan.12482 |
| OpenAlex | W3082682732 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
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
Teacher Recruitment and Retention
Critical Applied Linguistics
Aspiring world language teachers
Filling the Void
The world language teacher shortage
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
Examining Grow Your Own Programs Across the Teacher Development Continuum
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |