Outline the projected supply and demand of teachers in Colorado for the next five years.
This should include: ● Areas of greatest supply ● Critical subject needs and shortages ● Geographical needs: rural versus metro area supply issues ● Bibliography of sources
● In Colorado, minority students was 43% in 2012-13
● In 2011-12, 48% of the nation’s public elementary and secondary students were minorities ● Increased to 50% in 2013-14 Calendar year ● In 2011-12, 18.1% of teachers were represented by minorities ● 12% of all newly hired teachers in Colorado are minorities ● 10% of current colorado teachers are minorities ● 21% of bachelor degree students are minorities ● In 2013-14, Elementary Minority student representation rose to 50% ● Colorado’s Workforce of teachers has increased by 17% from 1999-2013 ● In 2003-04, It was rather hard to fill rural area ESL classes ● 37% of rural school reported the ESL class as “difficult to fill” ● Student to teacher Ratio is 16:1 as of 2016 ● Many schools have great difficulty filling Secondary Language courses ● New teachers represent half of teacher population ● From 2009-2014, there was a 35% reduction in undergraduate and post baccalaureate teacher preparation enrollments ● Only 5% of the students in a recent survey of those taking the ACT college entrance exam were interested in pursuing a career in education ● From 2007-2014, Teacher entrant supply dropped by 80,000 ● Larger cities garner larger amounts of teachers, rural areas are in greater need of teachers, their supply is rather low.