Transitioning From High School Students to Aspiring Future Rural Educators: Promising Practices to Fuel the Rural Teacher Pipeline (original) (raw)
This study examined the potential of a residency/concurrent enrollment program to support rural students that are interested in the field of education. With 17 students in the program, the goals were to make a career in teaching more accessible to rural high school students through concurrent enrollment, to help future teachers solidify their career choice, and to establish partnerships with rural districts to continue expanding concurrent enrollment and ultimately fuel the teacher pipeline. For the purposes of this study, we investigated how these efforts might influence high school students’ understanding of teaching as a profession and examined if and how the program might be able to facilitate participants’ first steps toward becoming culturally aware, highly effective educators who can return and give back to their own communities. Using an interpretivist model of qualitative research, we found that community was an essential thread that was multifaceted, complex, and extended ...
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