Cross-Cultural Issues Arising for Four Science Teachers During Their International Migration to Teach in U.S. High Schools

摘要: U.S. schools have experienced a perennial shortage of teachers. Recently, many school districts been inviting foreign veteran teachers to help mitigate such teacher shortages. This study describes the initial cross-cultural issues four international science encountered when they immigrated teach in high schools. In-depth, semistructured interviews (from Ghana, Britain, and Germany) produced main source data. The faced variety support system problems, which were not directly classroom related, but nevertheless had an impact on their instructional effectiveness. They also teaching-related issues, including differences organization structure, assessment philosophical beliefs, communication, textbooks, teaching methods, teacher-student relations. all expressed need become active learners order function effectively new contexts. implications are discussed based findings.