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...with most immigrant workers, the financial incentive looms large for Filipino teachers who opt for the U.S. According to Ligaya Avenida, AIC's founder, a Filipino teacher earns from $9,000 to $12,000 a year. In Baltimore the average Filipino recruit makes $45,000 a year. Many Filipino teachers seeking to practice their craft in the U.S. shell out as much as $10,000 to recruiting agencies like AIC to secure interviews with American administrators and receive help with visas and other immigration documents. With some agencies, however, the teachers don't always get what they...
...coming to the U.S. can be a culture shock for people who have worked in countries where educators are accorded great respect. Despite their country's poverty, teachers in the Philippines seldom have to deal with the discipline problems that plague many inner-city public schools in the U.S. In the Philippines students are ritually deferential to teachers and stand to address them. U.S. school districts try to smooth the transition. Tasha Franklin, director of training and teacher development for Baltimore's teaching residency program, led a four-hour workshop in October for the teachers Duque had hired in Manila...
After calmly recording each observation on a blackboard, Franklin turned to her audience. "Being an urban teacher is a lot like being a cardiologist or a dermatologist," she explained. "You may be a doctor, but that doesn't mean you know the heart, or the skin as an organ. It's the same thing with the urban teacher. You have a set of skills that make you a good teacher. But here you need a new set of skills...
Aguilar's principal, Joyce Hughes, says that the transition has been rough but typical. "With any new teacher," says Hughes, "whether you're from the Philippines or whatever, the kids will try you. She's really done a fantastic...
...very helpful, it definitely adds to the quality of learning,” she said.Extension School students represent a variety of ages and occupations and Podcasting has become a convenient asset that allows them to learn with minimal obstruction to their other obligations.Pieter Burgess, a retired nursery school teacher, found Podcasting extremely helpful when she had to miss lectures because of cross-country travel that was planned before she enrolled in “Understanding Computers and the Internet.”Burgess said she prefers Podcasts, which allow her to return to the material after attending an intensive...