Navigating Teacher Licensure Exams

Navigating Teacher Licensure Exams offers practical, empirically sourced insights into the high-stakes licensure exams required in most states for teacher certification.

Emery Petchauer is Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Teacher Education and Coordinator of the English Education Program at Michigan State University, USA.

List of Figures and Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements I. Thinking Differently About Struggle and Support 1. Introduction: What We Need More Than Test Prep 2. An Inch Wide and a Mile Deep: How Students Pass after Failing the First Time 3. Spiders and Their Webs: Advice Networks for Licensure Exams II. Addressing What's Felt but Not Seen 4. "Say You're White and You'll Definitely Pass": Working Through Ideas About Cultural Bias and Tests 5. The Story of How We Feel: Understanding the Emotional Side of Licensure Exams III. How Faculty Members Can Support Preservice Teachers 6. From Screening Out to Building Up: Frameworks for Teacher Educators 7. People Pass All the Time: Promising Practices for Teacher Educators. Appendix A: Interview Protocols. Appendix B: Advice Network Survey. Index