在10月26日的教学庆祝活动中，学生们与老师交谈，老师们吹捧了这个职业的优点和机会。 （博彩平台/安德里亚·普莱斯）乔纳森·莫拉莱斯
十月初，埃莉诺·洛耶收到了一封神秘的电子邮件。
One of her professors – she doesn’t know who – submitted her name as someone who would make a good teacher. 这封邮件是一封邀请函，邀请洛耶参加一个活动，在那里他可以了解更多。
“I trust my professors to an extent, so I decided I’ll go, see what it is, how I feel,” said Loyer, a sophomore majoring in Biology and who plans to become a pediatrician. “I will actually consider this. I’m not going to just ignore it.”
Loyer是10月26日参加第四届年度教学庆典的200多名学生之一。 Put on by the College of Education and its Educational Equity Program, the event is part of the 博彩平台’s EduCorps initiative to increase the number and diversity of teachers. It’s designed to introduce the teaching profession to students who might not have previously considered it. 为此，所有专业的学生都被提名，而不仅仅是教育学院的学生。
“There are so many students who are studying all the vast, different degree programs we have here, and those people are needed in classrooms, too,” said Deidre Sessoms, chair of the Teaching Credentials Department.
“We need people who can think creatively about problems, who understand psychology or economics or engineering.”
特别鼓励教师提名有色人种学生。 That’s because California’s teachers – and 萨克拉门托 State’s credential students – do not reflect the diversity of the state’s K-12 students or even the University’s overall student population. 教育学教授Mae Chaplin表示，扭转这一趋势是改善教育成果和继续发展多元化劳动力的关键因素。
“If students see themselves as a teacher, because their teacher looks like them, has a similar background as them, then they themselves might be more likely to consider teaching as a career,” said Chaplin, one of the event’s original organizers.
卓别林说，博彩平台是科罗拉多州立大学系统中最早实施EduCorps计划的大学之一，教学庆祝活动被认为是其他此类活动的典范。
活动以总统罗伯特·s·尼尔森（Robert S. nelson）的讲话开始，他分享了自己从未来的政治家、西方服装推销员到教师的经历。
“I learned that teaching is a sacred profession, and I learned that teaching is one of the most rewarding professions you can have,” Nelsen said. “It’s a crazy world out there. 谁来拯救这个世界？ Teachers.”
然后参与者分成小组，在那里他们有机会听取现任K-12教师和博彩平台教师的意见并提出问题。 他们还被介绍了各种可供教师候选人使用的咨询和经济援助项目，活动以小组讨论结束。
安娜·奎特（Anna Quitter）是一名历史学/预认证专业的大二学生，她早就知道自己想成为一名教师。 但她说，参加教学庆祝活动仍然是有益的，因为它帮助她理清了获得证书的道路，并将她与志同道合的学生联系起来。
“Being able to be in that community and say, ‘Yes, we like teaching, and we love history, and we’re passionate about it. We want to teach it to new generations’ – that sense of camaraderie and community has been good,” Quitter said.
组织者正在收集数据，以确定过去四年来参加过该项目的大约800名学生中，有多少人最终进入了博彩平台或其他地方的证书课程。 But Chaplin says even anecdotal stories, such as a former student who had completed a master’s degree in another field before deciding to become a teacher after Chaplin nominated, are powerful.
“At a small level, it’s a reward to see that, because I know the student will be able to go on and do good things in terms of teaching,” she said. “That’s always my long-term goal. Are we preparing teachers who will meet the needs of the community?”