Goal #6:

   Identify additional routes through which individuals can become teachers of D/HH students.

Objective    /    Outcomes    /   Individuals Responsible    /     Time Line    /    Budget    /   Weekly Update

Weekly Update:

    4/1/2000

ACE-D/HH Conference
Harold Johnson

Data Collection:

• Fall ’99
• 5 KSU grad students
• contacted 73 Deaf Ed. Teacher Prep. Pro. in the U.S. & Canada via e-mail, faxes & phone calls
• talked with faculty, current students and admission offices
• Question asked:
• “How do you recruit students to your program?”
• information received from 30 Programs (i.e., 40%)
• learned that four Programs are no longer accepting applicants = have closed:
• Univ. of TX, Austin
• Jacksonville State University
• University of  Alabama

Results – Listed (frequency) most to least frequent recruitment strategies:

• 16 – responds to letters, phone calls & e-mail messages from interested individuals
• 12 – word-of-mouth, recent graduates & collegial network
• 11 – University/College – Career, Visitation, Discovery Days/Fairs & Open Houses
• 10 – referrals from community colleges, undergraduate programs & other faculty
• 10 – University/College/Prof. Org. Web pages
•   8 – Admissions Office work
•   7 – announcements concerning the availability of grant support
•   6 – close association with schools, organizations & centers for the deaf
•   6 – visits and letters to high schools, e.g., Career Day
•   5 – Program brochures
•   5 – intro courses, e.g., ASL, SPED & Deaf Studies
•   4 – referrals from members of the Deaf community
•   3 – specific recruitment of minority students, e.g., publications, visits to historically “x” schools, multicultural recruitment teams
•   3 – do not need to recruit, only program in large geographic area/always have high enrolment
•   2 – student organizations
•   2 – advertisement in magazines, journals, & professional publications
•   2 – dispense information at annual conferences/conventions
•   1 – Cyber Mentors
•   1 – offer summer courses
•   1 – information about Deaf Ed. Pro. shared in freshman seminars
•   1 – none, rely upon students to find the program on their own

   Todate, the KSU grad students have not had much luck in collecting informaiton re. how our Deaf Ed. Teacher Prep. Pro. recruit students.  Thus far, e-mail messages to program faculty have served to begin the collection process from only a handful of programs.  The next step will be for the students to FAX and then to call the program faculty.  As indicated in the 9/30/99 update, the design of these contacts is to identify one student at each program that can gather information from their faculty and peers regarding how students "hear about" and/or are recruitted into the programs.  The purpose of this work is to gather/share the current recruitment strategies and then "brainstrorm" additional strategies that we all might use to identify and encourage qualified applicants to join our programs.

    9/30/99

    The KSU grad students are continuing their efforts to contact Program faculty concerning the strategies that are used to recruit students into our Deaf Ed. Teacher Prep. Programs.  Given how busy faculty are, the grad students are asking each faculty member to identify one student within their program that can serve as an inforamtion liaison for the Program.  It is hoped that this same liaison can serve to encourage their peers to joing and use the "Deaf-Prep" listserv that has been established to assist networking and informational exchanges between our program students.  To date, the grad students have manged to contact only a few program faculty.

    9/23/99

    Graduate students at Kent State University/Deaf Ed. Teacher Prep. Pro. have been assigned the responsibility of contacting each U.S. Deaf Ed. Teacher Prep. Pro.  The students will talk with faculty and students concerning the strategies that are most frequently used to recruit students into the Programs.  In addition, the students will work with program students in an effort to encourage them to join the "Deaf-Prep" listserv.  This listserv was established for students in preparation to become teachers of d/hh students.   Once functional, the listserv will serve as an effective means through which information can be efficiently shared between students at U.S. Deaf Ed. Teacher Prep. Pro.   This sharing, and the resulting network that will occur as a result, may prove to be yet another  way to tell current/potential students about upcoming professional development opportunities, thus enhance our future recruitment efforts.

submitted by:  Harold Johnson

Objective:

    A "Project Leadership Team" will be formed from the "Lead" faculty members for each of the Project's teams (i.e., "Syllabi", "Case Study", "Faculty Development" & "Support") and the Project's two Co-Directors. This team will collaboratively identify, describe and share how individuals are currently recruited and encouraged to become teachers of the deaf. The team will also identify, pilot and share additional/alternative strategies that can/should be used (e.g., recruitment of educational interpreters and parents of deaf children to become teachers; establishing e-mail exchanges between current D/HH Education majors and high school students who are volunteering in K-12 D/HH Education classrooms; etc.). The team will share the resulting information at the 2000 ACE-D/HH conference and on the CED Web site.

Outcome:

   Current recruitment strategies will be identified and alternative strategies for recruitment of additional individuals into the field of D/HH Education will be identified, piloted and shared.

Individuals Responsible:

    Drs. Johnson, Dilka, Brelje, Marvelli, Mercaldo & Schirmer.

Time Line:

    Oct.-Apr.= identify current recruitment strategies, identify additional strategies & pilot additional strategies; Apr.= present additional recruitment strategies at the ACE-D/HH conference & seek feedback; Apr.-Jul.= modify recruitment strategies; Jul.= disseminate.

Budget:

   Personnel:

      Project Director (PD) - Harold Johnson     $1,000

        Project Director (PD) - Karen Dilka         $1,000

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