The Effect of Administrator Perceptions and Hiring Practice on the Lives of Teachers

• In Event: Lives of Teachers Roundtable

Abstract

This study was designed to investigate school district administrators’ perceptions and hiring practices of teachers with international student teaching experience and the long term effects on the lives of teachers and the students whom they teach. Thirty central office administrators from 12 states across the United States were interviewed. Administrators included superintendents, assistant superintendents and human resource directors who were directly involved in the hiring process and ultimate decision to hire teachers. The responses and practices of these administrators and the districts that they represent were compared with the perceptions of student teachers and teachers from previous studies who had student taught abroad.

Authors

• Ann Cancilla Gaudino, Millersville University

• Eleanor V. Wilson, University of Virginia