Administrator Hiring Practices of Teachers Who Student Taught Abroad

• In Event: Worldwide Perspectives on Teacher Education and Experiences

Abstract

his study investigated school district administrators’ hiring practices of teachers with international student teaching experience and their perceptions about the value of that experience. Administrators concurred that international student teaching experience helps teachers to develop increased personal confidence, cultural awareness, ability to self-reflect on their professional practice and implement change, and ability to differentiate instruction for diverse learners. In addition, while the student teachers and teachers in previous studies opined that their international student teaching experience was a distinct advantage for them in the hiring process, 29 of the 30 administrators interviewed in this study indicated that their districts have no formal way of accounting for international student teaching experience any differently than student teaching experience in the United States.

Authors

• Ann Cancilla Gaudino, Millersville University of Pennsylvania

• Eleanor V. Wilson, University of Virginia