Teachers' Preferences to Teach Underserved Students Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • To increase the supply of teachers into underserved schools, teacher educators and policymakers commonly use two approaches: (a) recruit individuals who already report strong preferences to work in underserved schools or (b) design pre-service preparation to increase preferences. Using survey and administrative data on more than 1,000 teachers in a large, urban district, this study provides some of the first district-level evidence for both approaches. Individuals with stronger underserved preferences and teachers of color were more likely to enter underserved schools. Underserved preferences also increased across pre-service student teaching, although increases were mostly unrelated to working with underserved student populations.

published proceedings

  • URBAN EDUCATION

altmetric score

  • 1

author list (cited authors)

  • Ronfeldt, M., Kwok, A., & Reininger, M.

citation count

  • 15

complete list of authors

  • Ronfeldt, Matthew||Kwok, Andrew||Reininger, Michelle

publication date

  • November 2016