CHAPTER 8: Recommendations for Recruiting Students of Color into the Profession
As we look at recommendations for increasing the actual numbers of minority youth choosing careers in teaching, we must identify solutions for all aspects of the problems facing students of color as they move through schooling and compete for careers. After all, professional careers are going to continue to be available only on a competitive basis. The skills needed for eventual success must be acquired early in their educational lives, along with the motivation to face the often inhospitable confines of college and graduate study. Clearly, we need to increase the levels of achievement for African American, Latino, and Native American students beginning in the early grades and continuing through college (Vegas, et al., 1998). We also need, however, to seek ways to make the teaching profession attractive to students of color so that all groups are eventually more represented in future classrooms.
There are several recommendations for recruiting students of color into the profession:
1. Improve school education
2. Improve the image of teachers
3. Encourage students
4. Involve parents
5. Stress the importance of education
6. Provide early teaching-like experiences and bring in role models
7. Recruit in the community
8. Enhance financial aid options
9. Increase salary of teachers
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