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- Title
Navigating an Undergraduate Teacher Licensure Program as a Non-Traditional Student.
- Authors
Andzik, Natalie R.; Conderman, Gregory; Walker, David A.; Koehler, Kristen
- Abstract
Nearly eight million "non-traditional" students face adversity beyond financial instability, childcare, or full or part-time work when seeking teacher licensure. They must manage logging clinical hours in schools far from home, feel isolated in cohorts of 18-20-year-olds, and sometimes lack support and flexibility from their professors and advisors. We surveyed non-traditional, undergraduate, teacher licensure candidates at a large midwestern university to better understand current attending students' demographics and determine if any relationship(s) existed between variables related to logistical decisions, supports received, or barriers faced/encountered. We summarized findings from 53 participants and offered suggestions to university administrators, professors, and staff to support the growing population of non-traditional teacher candidates.
- Subjects
TEACHER certification; NONTRADITIONAL college students; STUDENT teachers; COLLEGE administrators; PART-time employment
- Publication
Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2022, Vol 34, Issue 4, p395
- ISSN
1056-3997
- Publication type
Article