Effects of International Student Teaching on U.S. Classroom Practice: Understanding Instructional Transfer, Adaptation, and Integration

• In Event: Poster Session 6
  In Poster Session: Cultural (Mis)Understanding

Abstract

Public schools in the United States continue to serve an increasingly racially, ethnically and culturally diverse and growing student population. Student teaching abroad programs represent one approach among US Colleges of Education in providing experiences to meaningfully provide future teachers with experiences that will enable them to interact effectively and productively with the increasingly diverse student population enrolled in U.S. schools. This study investigates the degree to which former student teachers abroad have transferred, adapted and integrated previous experiences gathered in their student teaching abroad (STA) experiences in semester-long international school-, classroom-, and cultural-settings to (a) positively shape the current culturally responsive context of their U.S. classrooms and (b) enhance the instructional and curricular experiences of their increasingly diverse students.

Authors

• Binbin Jiang, Kennesaw State University

• Robert A. Devillar, Kennesaw State University

• Woong Lim, Kennesaw State University