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[quote=Anonymous]1) Have free teaching license/certification programs available to top graduates of content majors in college.  Earn a certain GPA and you can get your licensure program for free.

2) Students with a certain SAT/HS GPA can be given scholarships to enroll in a concurrent teaching licensure program during their undergraduate years (or do precursor courses for it and then have a free +1 year to finish up).

3) Provide students with a certain SAT/HS GPA/College GPA a stipend to do their student teaching.

There are a number of majors (e.g., English, History, Math, Biology, Physics, Foreign Languages) where students sometimes struggle to find their first job or are planning to do graduate work but aren't ready to start yet where financial support to get the teaching license might encourage them to at least teach for awhile.

Once they are teachers, provide teaching-centered routes towards advancement--e.g., you can achieve leadership/administrative positions that still involve part-time teaching--such as curriculum writing, faculty coach etc. that pay significantly more.  I think advancement opportunities with notable increases in pay for merit are needed.  Admin roles should all have a teaching requirement (e.g., you teach 1 course a year or a semester full time a minimum every three years) so good teachers get recruited into higher paying leadership positions.[/quote]

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