Strategies
START EARLY: Waiting til they are Seniors may be too late.
- Use every opportunity to share your profession
- Tell them how much you love your job
- Ask them “Have you thought about teaching?”
- Explain the steps to becoming a teacher
- Talk, talk, talk about the advantages of being a teacher
- Include teaching as a career at Parent Open House
- Get involved in the College Search
- Learn about and explain the role of the FAFSA
- Provide access to the AATF Directory of French Major Programs
- Promote “Career Pathway” programs in your high school
- Invite “Career Pathways” counselor to your classes
- Tell your students about immersion school teaching opportunities
- Give them role models
- Ask for testimonials from former students who are French teachers
- Accept a student teacher
- Promote the Teaching Assistants Program in France (TAPIF)
- Offer AATF Chapter outreach
- Offer recruiting workshops, webinars, podcasts for students
- Invite French majors and French education students to programs
- Contact post-secondary French and Education professors regularly
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