Canada is also struggling with the shortage of teachers.
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Here are some strategies for recruiting and retaining first native education students, first nations, and non-first nation teachers:
- Marketing tools
- Consider previous experiences for living
- Networking, collaboration, and partnership
- Induction/mentorship programs at the school and in the community
- Pre-service training and professional development opportunities
- Administrative leadership and support
- Rewards and incentives
The following website shows some of the efforts in recruitment and retention of teachers. http://www.ainc:inac.gc.ca/pr/pub/krw/tec_e.html
Alberta School Authorities
There are many suggestions for recruitment and retention of teachers. The Alberta School Authorities are trying the following:
How Alberta School Authorities Recruit Teachers
- Advertising (national, local, website)
- Active Recruiting
- Attending career/job fairs
- Recruiting on university campuses
- Recruiting further afield (Atlantic Canada, Eastern Provinces)
- Hiring teachers earlier
- Centralizing hiring through division office
- Maintaining ongoing database of prospective staff
- Entering preliminary contracts with exemplary applicants contingent on satisfactory completion
- Marketing Community and School
- Jurisdiction
- Financial Initiatives
- Attractive compensation package (salary and benefits)
- Grant for moving expenses
- Subsidized housing
- Working with local banks to provide assistance to first-time home buyers
- Grant contingent on service
- Commitment in penultimate year of teacher preparation program
- Bursaries contingent on service commitment
- Funding extended practicum
- Students in faculty of education
- Mentoring and orientation programs
- Succession Planning (supporting members within the jurisdiction to develop the skills necessary to fill areas of need)
How Alberta School Authorities Retain Teachers
- Professional development opportunities
- Attractive compensation package
- Mentorship
- Nurturing positive staff relations and morale
- Staff recognition programs
- Being compassionate and supportive of staff in crisis
- Valuing teachers- stressing sense of family
- Wellness initiatives
- Teacher preparation time
- Assigning teachers to areas of expertise
- Focusing on quality learning and teaching
- Providing state-of-the-art technology and teaching resources
- Having and maintaining modern facilities
- Pedagogical support
- Vertical teams (job-alike groups for sharing resources)
- Providing continuous contracts
- Educational leave
- Deferred salary leave
- Temporary assignments after retirement
- Bursaries
- Revisiting early retirement incentive plan
- Subsidized housing
- Working with local colleges and universities to broker programs to prepare teachers
- Job sharing
- Long service allowances
- Sabbatical support
This website discusses some of them. 
