Recruitment Resources
34 Activities to Promote Careers in Special Education & Related Services/ National Clearinghouse, 1996. This book contains activities designed to interest people in the field of Special Education. It's purpose is to offer long term solutions to shortages in the field of Special Education rather than short term.
Available from the National Clearinghouse for Professions in Special Education
The Council for Exceptional Children
1920 Association Drive
Reston, VA 20191-1589
(703) 620-3660 TTY(703)264-9449
www.cec.sped.org
All Classes of Special Education Teachers in Demand Throughout Nation/ Sack, Joetta. Education Week On-Line, 6/24/99. This is the third installment of a five-part series about the nation's supply of and demand for qualified teachers. It examines the reason's many special ed teachers burn-out. Special ed positions come with more time-consuming duties and legal responsibilities than teaching in other fields - usually without additional pay. Those demands are driving thousands of special education teachers to transfer into regular ed or leave the profession each year, at a time when schools are seeing increasing numbers of students needing special education. It discusses innovative incentives being used to increase supply..
Internet - can download directly
www.edweek.org.ew/current/28speced.h18
Burgeoning Nevada District Concentrates on 'Growing' Its Own/ Sack, Joetta. Education Week On-Line, 6/24/99. Clark County, Nev. School officials couldn't find enough special educators to fill classrooms in the fast-growing district. So they turned to the school system's special education classes themselves. They found 30 paraprofessionals, long-term substitutes, and parents of students with disabilities--all of who were already familiar with special education--who wanted to become teachers. They worked with University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to create a curriculum that would put them on a fast track to a special education degree..
Internet: Education Week on-line
www.edweek.org/ew/current/28vegas.h18
Do you Want to Make a Difference in the Lives of Students with Special Needs? Careers in Special Education and Related Services/ National Clearinghouse for Professions in Spec Ed, 1998. Designed for high school students interested in careers in special education and related services, this guide outlines the different roles of special education and related services professionals who teach and provide specifically designed instruction and services to children with disabilities. It addresses the different disabilities that students may have and federal legislation that requires services to be provided. Profiles are provided for different types of professionals..
National Clearinghouse for Professions in Special Education
1920 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191-1598, 800-641-7824, email: ncpse@cec.sped.org; web: www.cec.sped.org.ncpse.htm
or
EDRS - ERIC #420979
EDRS Ordering Information:
website: www.edrs.com
Customer Service Representatives are available Monday thru Friday from 8:00am to 6:00pm (EST).
To Contact: 703-440-1400, or TOLL-FREE (in U.S. & Canada) 800-443-3742, FAX 703-440-1408
EMAIL service@edrs.com
Introducing High School Students to Careers in Special Education: An Activities Guide/ Office of Special Education and Rehab. Services, Sept. '91. The purpose of this guide is to assist chapters of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) and other groups of special educators to plan, design, and implement community activities that increase awareness of high school students about career possibilities within special education and provide information about how to pursue a career in the special education. profession. The guide describes activities designed to introduce students to the rewards of working with children who have disabilities and to provide information about the profession..
EDRS - ERIC # ED342146
EDRS Ordering Information:
website: www.edrs.com
Customer Service Representatives are available Monday thru Friday from 8:00am to 6:00pm (EST).
To Contact us: PHONE 703-440-1400, or TOLL-FREE (in U.S. & Canada) 800-443-3742, FAX 703-440-1408
EMAIL service@edrs.com
Measured Steps: An Evaluation Handbook for Improving Teacher Recruitment Programs/ Recruiting New Teachers, Inc., 1998. Addresses the information and assessment needs of teacher recruitment programs. Designed for the beginning evaluator, a step-by-step guide to examine the effectiveness of program activities and strategies and track program participant's progress after graduation. Includes many worksheets and instructions..
Recruiting New Teachers, Inc.
385 Concord Ave, Suite 103, Belmont, MA 02478
(617) 489-6000, fax: (617) 489-6005, e-mail: rnt@rnt.org, website: www.rnt.org
Recruitment and Retention of Special Educators and Related Services Personnel: State Plan and State Strategic Plan Provisions/ Mullins, Frank;Morris, Sidney;Reinoehl, Kim. National Clearinghouse, 1997.
This paper reviews all of the 50 state plans required under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in order to identify state initiatives dealing with the recruitment and retention of special education personnel..
EDRS - ERIC # ED420984
EDRS Ordering Information:
website: www.edrs.com
Customer Service Representatives are available Monday thru Friday from 8:00am to 6:00pm (EST).
To Contact us: PHONE 703-440-1400, or TOLL-FREE (in U.S. & Canada) 800-443-3742, FAX 703-440-1408
EMAIL service@edrs.com
Special Education Personnel Recruitment Practices: A Manual for Administrators/ ERIC, June 1987. This guide deals with issues of recruitment and retention of both regular and special educators, and emphasizes the need for school administrators to upgrade or establish formalized recruitment programs. Discusses factors impacting teacher recruitment and retention. Programs developed by states or localities to meet their personnel needs are briefly described..
EDRS - ERIC # ED297495
EDRS Ordering Information:
website: www.edrs.com
Customer Service Representatives are available Monday thru Friday from 8:00am to 6:00pm (EST).
To Contact us: PHONE 703-440-1400, or TOLL-FREE (in U.S. & Canada) 800-443-3742, FAX 703-440-1408
EMAIL service@edrs.com
State Policies to Improve the Teacher Workforce/ Recruiting New Teachers, Inc. (RNT), 1993. The purpose is to encourage state leaders across the nation to start, continue or refine their own conversations about teacher development and educational reform. Defines teacher development systems and underscores their centrality to reform. Discusses 10 interrelated "guiding principles' that state leaders may find valuable as starting points for the design and implementation of teacher development systems..
Recruiting New Teachers, Inc.
385 Concord Ave, Suite 103, Belmont, MA 02478
(617) 489-6000, fax: (617) 489-6005, e-mail: rnt@rnt.org, website: www.rnt.org
Strategies for Teacher Retention/ Gonzales, Patricia. ERIC, August 1995. Strategies for teacher retention are presented, including successful approaches and elements for operating a state system for personnel recruitment and retention in special education..
EDRS - ERIC # ED389126
EDRS Ordering Information:
website: www.edrs.com
Customer Service Representatives are available Monday thru Friday from 8:00am to 6:00pm (EST).
To Contact us: PHONE 703-440-1400, or TOLL-FREE (in U.S. & Canada) 800-443-3742, FAX 703-440-1408
EMAIL service@edrs.com
Teaching's Next Generation: A National Study of Precollegiate Teacher Recruitment/ Recruiting New Teachers, Inc & the DeWitt Wallace, 1993. This study was conducted for the purpose of identifying, classifying, and analyzing the range of precollegiate teacher recruitment programs now in operation across the nation and make recommendations to the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund on potential grant making opportunities. The study concludes that precollegiate teacher recruitment programs show clear promise as critical contributors to the creation of a new, more diverse, and more professional cohort of teachers. It notes strengths and weaknesses of five district program models and also uncovered nine conditions for successful programs..
Recruiting New Teachers, Inc.
385 Concord Ave, Suite 103, Belmont, MA 02478
(617) 489-6000, fax: (617) 489-6005, e-mail: rnt@rnt.org, website: www.rnt.org
2000 Job Search Handbook for Educators/ American Association for Employment in Education, 1999. A handbook to help teacher candidates organize successful job searches. Gives assistance on analyzing skills, interests, and personality in light of qualities sought most often by school districts. Also give assistance on making most of student teaching opportunities, maximizing college/university career services office, stress management and strategies for a successful first year of teaching..
website: www.aaee.org
American Association for Employment in Education
PO Box 1265
Columbus, OH 43216-1265
Cost: $8
Surveys To Examine Lack of Special Ed Teachers - article in Special Education Report/ Capitol Publishing Group, 9/15/99. Federally funded researchers have written four surveys for an ambitious three-year study of the nation's acute shortage of special education teachers. The surveys - a wide-ranging series designed to examine factors ranging from salary to demographics-will conclusively identify causes of the shortage and effective ways to alleviate it, according to researchers..
surveys available online at www.spense.org
for article reprints, contact Linda McKenna at (301)417-7591 or e-mail lmckenna@aspenpubl.com
Special Education in an Era of School Reform - Preparing Special Education Teachers./ Hardman, Michael;McDonnell, John;Welch, Marshall. Regional Resource and Federal Center Network, Sep. 97. This report is part of a series on contemporary school reform and special education. Schools are under increasing pressure to change, and the push is coming from many sources. This current series discusses four elements of school reform and shows how they impact special education, additional papers on special education and school reform will be published by the Federal Resource Center..
The Federal Resource Center
Academy for Educational Development
1875 Connecticut Ave., Suite 900
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 884-8215
email: frc@aed.org
Website: www.dssc.org.frc
What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future/ The National Commission on Teaching & Amer. Future, 1996. The initial 1996 report in which the 26 members of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, after two years of study, laid out a blueprint for recruiting, preparing, and supporting excellent teachers for America's schools.
Both the full and summary set.
Kutztown Publishing Co., Inc.
PO Box 326
Kutztown, PA 19530-0326
toll free: 1-888-492-1241
fax: 1-610-683-5616
cost: $20 - for full and summary set
Can prepay by check or will take PO's from institutions such as schools, school districts, universities, etc. Price includes shipping and handling.
What Every Special Educator Should Know: the international standards for the preparation and certification of special education teachers - 2nd ed./ Council for Exceptional Children, 1996. Explains CEC International Standards for Entry into Special Education Practice. Lists the requirements for entry-level special educators seeking certification to practice and stipulations of continuing education required of practicing special educators..
The Council for Exceptional Children
1920 Association Drive
Reston, Virginia 20191-1589
(703) 620-3660 TTY(703)264-9449
www.cec.sped.org
Teacher shortage: False Alarm/ Merrow, John. The Merrow Report on PBS, 11/19/99. A PBS program which discusses the flaws in the system that creates shortages of teachers in different credentialed areas or geographic locations..
internet: www.pbs.org/merrow/tv/shortage
Standards of No Standards? Teacher Quality in the 21st Century/ Wise, Arthur. NCATE (Natnl. Council for Accredit. Of Teacher Edu, 11/19/99. Discusses NCATE standards to insure teacher quality in the 21st century. The standards focus on teacher competence and knowledge of subject matter content. It makes recommendations to solving the problem of inadequately prepared teachers. It discusses the problems inherent and demonstrated in granting emergency licensure to those who are unprepared for their roles..
internet: www.ncate.org/specfoc/preparation.htm
The Teacher Shortage: Wrong Diagnosis, Phony Cures/ Merrow, John. Education Week, October 6, 1999. Merrow states "Education's real problems lie within the system that is already in place, and no influx of idealistic men and women will change that." He also says"…our educational system has an unacceptably high tolerance for mediocrity. What's more, our current national, state, and local policies merely reinforce the status quo." He concludes that the reason there is a teacher shortage is that teacher training is not rigorous or demanding enough, teaching is not a well-paid occupation in which expertise was respected, and out-of-field teaching is acceptable and widespread..
Education Week on-line
www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=06merrow.h19
or
Education Week, October 6, 1999
Vol. 19, Number 6, Page 64, 48
The Official Travel Guide Oregon/ State of Oregon Tourism Div, 1999. A book which lists sites and attractions around Oregon geared toward attracting tourists. Text and pictures can be used to inspire publications about local areas.
Oregon Tourism Commission
775 Summer St NE
Salem, OR 97310
503-986-0000
fax: 503-986-0001