Colleges Sending Teacher-Candidates To See the World
Become a student of the world, and you'll be a better teacher when you return to America.
That's
Craig Kissock's pitch to prospective educators at the University of
Minnesota-Morris as he shows them the floor-to-ceiling world map that
adorns one wall of the school of education. Choose to teach in Belize,
he suggests, or Lithuania. How about the United Arab Emirates? Working
in a predominantly Muslim nation will surely make you a more successful
practitioner when you take a job back in Minnesota, the education
professor tells his college students.
"Over 90 languages are spoken in the Minneapolis schools," said Mr. Kissock, who has dispatched more than 800 teaching prospects to 30 nations as director of the institution's Global Student Teaching program. "The world's going to come to you whether you...
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