DOCUMENT RESUME ED 418 083 SP 037 875 TITLE Teaching's Next Generation: Five Years On and Growing. A Follow Up Report with a National Directory of Precollegiate Teacher Recruitment Programs. INSTITUTION Recruiting New Teachers, Inc., Belmont, MA. SPONS AGENCY DeWitt Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, Pleasantville, NY. PUB DATE 1996-11-00 NOTE 81p. AVAILABLE FROM Recruiting New Teachers, Inc., 385 Concord Avenue, Suite 103, Belmont, MA 02178 ($6.95 plus $3 shipping and handling). PUB TYPE Reference Materials Directories/Catalogs (132)-- Reports Research (143) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC04 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Career Awareness; *Career Choice; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Minority Group Children; Minority Group Teachers; Preservice Teacher Education; Program Effectiveness; Program Evaluation; *Student Recruitment; Students; *Teacher Recruitment; *Teaching (Occupation) ABSTRACT This report presents the results of a followup survey conducted in the 1994-1995 academic year to examine the Pathways to Teaching Careers Program. This program recruits qualified individuals, particularly minorities, who want to become teachers and work in hard-to-staff, low income, rural and urban public schools. Candidates are recruited from nontraditional sources and include school-age students. In 1992, a study investigated program effectiveness. The study included a survey of programs designed to encourage school-age children to consider careers in teaching; site visits to selected precollegiate teacher recruitment efforts identified by the survey; comprehensive literature reviews; and scans of foundation-, state-, and federally-supported precollegiate teacher recruitment initiatives. The 1994-1995 followup survey involved 253 programs. The survey examined whether or not the precollegiate recruitment programs were effective enough to warrant continued or extended foundation support. Results indicated that over the years, programs became more selective in accepting candidates and significantly increased efforts to recruit minorities. Programs made progress in nine areas: connectedness, apprenticeship-style activities, adequate staff support, clear entrance requirements and high expectations, sufficient resources, resources for college matriculation, modeling an evolving concept of teaching, rigorous evaluation, and long-term commitment at all levels. The publication provides a checklist of recommendations for stakeholders concerned with precollegiate teacher recruitment nationwide. A directory of precollegiate programs by state is included. (SM) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ******************************************************************************** f7rr\4-4-11, r t_irLupuu- , -61177r7r,1 CITry 1)_11 f tip\f A FOLLOW UP REPORT WITH A NATIONAL DIRECTORY OF PRECOLLEGIATE TEACHER RECRUITMENT PROGRAMS 00 00 SIVE AR U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND Office of Educational Research and Improvement DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION REPARED BY BEEN GRANTED BY CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as 'ECRUITING received from the person or organization November 1996 originating it. NEW 1-Lou,srvo"c\ Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. BEST_COPY AVAILABLE] EACHERS, INC. TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Points of view or opinions stated in this INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) document do not necessarily represent Al official OERI position or policy. TEACHING'S NEXT GENERATION: A FOLLOW UP REPORT WITH A NATIONAL DIRECTORY OF PRECOLLEGIATE TEACHER RECRUITMENT PROGRAMS FIVE YEARS ON ANDGROWING November 1996 PREPARED BY RECRUITING NEW TEACHERS, INC. 3 Acknowledgments Recruiting New Teachers, Inc. gratefully acknowledges the sup- port of the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund for the sec- ond national survey of precollegiate teacher recruitment pro- grams (Survey II). Several RNT staff members and consultants deserve special recognition for their contributions to the re- port and national directory: Elaine Yoneoka for layout and de- sign, Janet Angelis for editorial assistance, Heather Meeker Green for compiling the directory, and Dr. Elizabeth Fideler for overseeing survey research and analysis. We also wish to thank all the project coordinators who took the time to share key in- formation with usover 250 middle and high school teachers and administrators, school district personnel directors, college/ university faculty and administrators, state education agency officials, and more. Additional copies of Teaching's Next Generation: Five Years On and Growing are available from Recruiting New Teach- ers, Inc., 385 Concord Ave., Suite 103, Belmont, MA 02178, tele- phone (617) 489-6000. Recruiting New Teachers', Inc. National Center for Precollegiate Teacher Recruitment Advisory Board 1995-1997 Dr. Michael Acosta Dr. Jacqueline Jordan Irvine Administrator for Certified Employment Project Director Operations Branch The Center for Urban Learning/Teaching and Los Angeles Unified School District Urban Research in Education and Schools Division of Educational Studies Dr. Jerry Bread Emory University Director American Indian Teacher Corps Dr. Shirley Kilgore Univeristy of Oklahoma Principal College of Education Booker T. Washington High School Ms. Ruth Campopiano Dr. Jowel Laguerre Co-Director Director Celebration of Teaching Teachers of Tomorrow Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Lake Superior College Mr. Michael Casserly Dr. Shirley Mc Bay Executive Director President Council of the Great City Schools Quality Education for Minorities Network Dr. Esther Coleman Ms. Sandra Mc Brayer Executive Director 1994 Teacher of the Year American Association of School Personnel Administrators Dr. Marvin Peek Coordinator Ms. Therese Dozier' Urban Teachers' Project 1985 Teacher of the Year Kent State University Ms. Emma Farmer Dr. Janice Poda Instructional Coordinator Director Green Oaks Laboratory High School South Carolina Center for Teacher Recruitment Ms. Rutha Gibson Mr. Greg Roberts Executive Director Executive Director Community Youth Creative Sununerbridge National Project Learning Experience Dr. Anne Rothstein Dr. Mildred Hudson' Associate Dean of Professional Studies Program Officer Lehman College DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Dr. George Kersey, Jr. Associate Executive Director Phi Delta Kappa ex officio advisory board member (continued) Precollegiate Advisory Board continued Dr. Phil Rusche Dr. Marta Sanchez Dean of School of Education and Allied Director Professions Operation Chicano Teacher University of Toledo California State University-Northridge Mr. Joe Salevemini Dr. Elaine Witty Director Dean of Education The Eagles Center Norfolk State College Central High School Dr. Herb Sa linger President American Association of School Personnel Administrators CONTENTS About the Surveys 1 Foreword 3 Key Findings of the Survey 7 Elements of Successful Programs 9 Connectedness Apprenticeship-style Activities Adequate Support for Staff Clear Entrance Requirements and High Expectations Sufficient Resources to Enable Student Participation Resources for College Matriculation Modeling an Evolving Concept of the Teaching Profession Sufficient Attention to Rigorous Evaluation Long-term Commitment at All Levels Conclusion 21 Recommendations 22 Directory of Precollegiate Programs 27 TEACHING'S NEXT GENERATION: FIVE YEARS ON AND GROWING 1 ABOUT THE SURVEYS The Pathways to Teaching Careers Program of the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund seeks to recruit qualified individuals, particularly minorities, who want to become teach- ers and are willing to work in hard-to-staff public schools in low-income urban and rural communities. Candidates are re- cruited from nontraditional sources: paraprofessionals and noncertified teachers already working in schools; returned Peace Corps volunteers and other adults seeking to change careers. The largest privately supported effort of its kind in the United States, Pathways operates at 44 colleges and universi- ties nationwide. Program participants receive scholarship and other support services that enable them to take courses lead- ing to degrees, certification, then teaching jobs. The program also encourages undergraduates at liberal arts colleges to in- vestigate teaching as a career and introduces young people in middle schools and high schools to the profession. In 1992, Recruiting New Teachers, Inc., (RNT) of Belmont, Massachusetts, conducted research for the Fund that included several elements: a survey of programs designed to encourage school-age children to consider careers in teaching; site visits to selected " precollegiate" teacher recruitment efforts identified by the survey; as well as a comprehensive literature review and scans of foundation-, state-, and federally-supported precollegiate teacher recruitment initiatives. The combined results were analyzed and published in Teaching's Next Generation: A National Study of Precollegiate Teacher Recruitment (1993). The 1992 survey found a small but healthy body of 216 programs in 39 states across the country involving approxi- mately 30,000 students per year in a variety of programs, in- cluding tutoring, career awareness, summer academies, extra- curricular clubs, and magnet programs.(An additional 156 programs, identified after the 1992 survey results were com- piled, were included in Teaching's Next Generation's directory listings.) a 2 TEACHING'S NEXT GENERATION: