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Implementing Professional Development
    Working with Administrators
    Ideas for Improving Teacher Recruitment
    Successful Workshop Strategies
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Ideas for Improving Teacher Recruitment

Recruiting teachers for professional development can be a challenge.

  • Maintain a database of teachers who have used your facility for any reason
  • Mail promotional flyers to teachers who have used your facilities; be explicit about the benefits of your workshop
  • Contact key people in school administration to recommend workshop to teachers
  • Partner with local colleges to offer credit
  • Work with the local board of education to offer clock hours to teachers
  • List your workshops on your institutional web site
  • Send out e-mail to area teachers
  • Offer special packages to workshop participants that allow them to bring their classes to your institution
  • Schedule the workshops so that teachers will not need substitutes add space here (unless you have support by a school district who will provide substitutes to participating teachers) 
  • Develop strong ties with local schools and use those personal relationships to inform teachers about the workshop
  • Offer open houses or free workshops to administrators/teachers to increase awareness of how they can use your facility
  • Attend local science teacher meetings to establish your presence in the community 
  • Encourage teachers to sign up with a friend or colleague and offer discounts
  • Offer special behind the scenes tours or other perks

 
       


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