ECHOES FOR A LIFETIME: INSPIRING TOMORROWS’ TEACHERS

Sandra Duke, Ph.DSenior Lecturer/

FCS Teacher Certification Coordinator

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Objectives

• Remind you of your own motivation for teaching

• Inspire you to look see the teaching potential in your students

• Challenge you to take a proactive position in recruiting the next generation of teachers.

Remember when…

• Favorite teacher• Favorite subject • Love of learning• Love of children/youth• Love of paper and school supplies• Coordinated well with family life

Pursue confidently your dreams of being a teacher.

Teach every day as you once imagined you would.

Don’t let today’s obstacles keep you from

yesterday’s dreams.• ~Robert John Meehan

Why should your students consider a teaching career in Texas?

• Expand career opportunities

• Competitive salaries,

• Good benefits (health and retirement)

• Family-friendly work schedule

• Teachers make a difference

Teaching Outlook 2010 - 2020

Kindergarten and Elementary = 17% increase due to reduction in student teacher ratio and increased enrollment

Middle School = 17% increase due to teacher retirement

High School = 7% due to teacher retirement offset by state and local budget constraints

However…

Texas has High Demand for FCS Teachers

Every year FCS positions go unfilled

About 3,300 FCS teachers currently employed in Texas schools.

55% (1,800) eligible to retire this year!

Who will take their place?

Your students!!

Your role as a Recruiter

• Active pursuit of new participant for an ongoing program (profession)

• Sourcing (locating potential recruits)

• Attracting (incentivizing the potential recruits to look at the profession)

• Recruiting (engaging the most promising of recruits to take a closer look and get some experience with you)

• Interviewing (hiring new talent)

• Onboarding (helping new hires adjust to the culture)

Sourcing, Attracting, Recruiting • Be sure you know what you want

• Diversity

• Look in unexpected places• Athletes, artists, geeks

• Learn to love the jagged CV (i.e., unconventional path)

• Changing courses

• Don’t be blinded by achievements (or a lack thereof)• Those who understand, teach• Passion has its own timetable

• Take small, controlled risks• Seeds of leadership are buried under a lot of dirt

Challenge 1• Student with less than stellar grades …loves children

Teacher says:

Challenge 2• Student who struggles with your content…then explains to

others.

Teacher says

Your Challenge• Think of a student in one of your classes that has teacher

potential.• How can you actively encourage them?

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Be diligent in believing that what you do in the

classroom could possibly echo for a

lifetime in the heart of a student

• ~Robert John Meehan

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