Maybe they should all be cats? Designing a persuasive game for teacher recruitment
20 October 2023
Blog for BERA from ERP project Rethinking teacher recruitment: New approaches to attracting prospective STEM teachers from University of York researcher team: Rebecca Snell, Michael Saiger and Robert Klassen
![the image shows two cards from the game the researchers are developing. The cards each show a hand drawn image of an empty classroom. One card has the heading 'Students with low aspirations' the other, 'Neurodivergent students'](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/education-research-programme/sites/education_research_programme/files/styles/large_image/public/maybe_they_shoudl_all_be_cats.png?itok=RMw4Mdwi)
Not only do we hope to better understand what is motivating young people – primarily undergraduates – into selecting their career paths, but also to craft a cutting edge, persuasive recruitment game aimed at raising awareness of STEM teaching as a career choice.