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The paper posits that a teacher recruiting agency can make the task of hiring teachers much easier. The paper looks at the Teach for America program and discusses how although its near-exhaustive vetting process makes it an ideal source for recruiting teachers, there are also some real issues with using this agency to hire teachers. The paper looks at other teacher cadet programs and concludes that while the use of a teacher recruiting agency does not eliminate the immense workload required in hiring teachers, using an agency is a good way to start with a pool of pre-qualified candidates.

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"Teaching recruitment agencies and organizations can do a lot of the coordinating, sparing districts and administrators much of the headache of finding the right teacher for the job. In addition, though they do not by any stretch of the imagination solve the issue of the teacher shortage, they do aid those responsible for hiring teachers by helping to consolidate the pool of qualified applicants. At times this may seem to serve little purpose other then to re-emphasize the lack of available teachers, for certain subjects especially but truly across the board, but in less cynical moments it can be seen to be remarkably beneficial to use a teaching recruiting agency for hiring simply because a pool of candidates known to be qualified--and
often with experience--will be available to choose from. This is the major bonus of many teacher recruiting programs; the level of understanding and commitment these individuals have is not an unknown."

Sample of Sources Used:

• CERRA. (2009). "Teacher cadets." Accessed 14 May 2009. http://www.cerra.org/teacherCadets
• Employment Guide. (2007). "Teacher interview questions." Accessed 14 May 2009. http://www.job-employment-guide.com/teacher-interview-questions.html
• Guarino, C.; Santibanez, L. & Daley, G. (2006). "Teacher recruitment and retention: A review of the recent empirical literature." review of educational research, 76(2), pp. 173-208.
• NCSL. (2009). "Teacher recruitment." Accessed 14 May 2009. http://www.ncsl.org/programs/educ/trecru.htm
• Teach for America. (2009). Accessed 14 May 2009. www.teachforamerica.org

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