Completion deadline for new educators, high school junior and senior students is Jan. 31
Posted: December 9, 2021
Teachers in their first five years in the classroom as well as Hawaiʻi high school junior and senior students are encouraged to complete an online survey to offer insight on what influences students to consider becoming educators.
Kanaeokana’s Hawaiian Culture Based Recruitment and Retention Committee developed an online survey, called Hoʻoulu Kumu Hoʻoulu Lāhui (Growing Teachers to Support Our People), with the goal to increase the number and quality of educators in Hawaiʻi. Kanaeokana is a network of more than 50 Hawaiian language, culture, and ʻāina-based schools and organizations collaborating to develop a Hawaiian education system.
Results will help education stakeholders and supporters learn how to better prepare new generations of Hawaiian culture-based educators and increase the number of Native Hawaiians entering the teaching field. Data from the research will inform the recruitment and retention of teachers.
The survey, which has approvals from the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, University of Hawaiʻi’s Institutional Review Board, and Kamehameha Schools Research and Innovation Division, seeks opinions from new educators who teach preschool through 12 grade and have been in the classroom for five or fewer years, along with high school juniors and seniors. Teachers are encouraged to distribute the surveys to their students regardless of their ethnicity or course of study interest.
Participation is anonymous, voluntary, and takes 15 minutes. The survey is accessible from any device that can access the internet. Note: All students who are minors will have to get parental consent to participate.