What It Takes to Recruit Future Teachers During the Pandemic — from edsurge.com by Rebecca Koenig
Excerpts:
“Efforts that seem to be working have had a common ingredient: close ties between colleges and local K-12 school districts.”
“Taking out loans to earn a college degree, then entering a profession where they can’t pay those loans off—that’s a challenge,” she explains.
So for the first time, this academic year education students are eligible to receive a stipend during their student-teaching internships. Based on a recommendation made in 2019 by a “teacher shortage task force” commissioned by the Oklahoma department of education, the state allocated some of its COVID-relief money to pay student-teachers a total of $3,250—half up front, and half after they’re hired into a teaching job by a school district.
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