Student Teaching in Karachi
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Authors
Wood, Margaret
Issue Date
1987
Type
Thesis
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en_US
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Student teaching at the Karachi American School in
Karachi, Pakistan was an unforgettable and challenging
experience, one that will always have immeasurable value on
my ability to be an effective and conscientious teacher.
Not only was I faced with the challenge of teaching for the
first time, but also with the challenge of teaching foreign
students and adjusting to a foreign culture. The Karachi
American School is a very small school consisting of 200
students within the secondary division. Of these 200
students, one third are "Americans," meaning they hold
American passports, but the majority of these students are
from Pakistan and have spent most of their lives in
Pakistan. Therefore, the school has a majority of Pakistani
students as another one third of the spaces are reserved for
Pakistanis and the remaining third are reserved for students
of other nations. As a result of this Pakistani majority in
my classrooms, I was able to learn much about teaching
foreign students by adjusting to the foreign culture in
which I was teaching and incorporating the various
experiences of the students into my teaching techniques.
Student teaching in this environment enabled me to become
aware of the need to relate to students individually (i.e.
understand their unique outlooks on life) and taught me a
great deal about adjusting my teaching methods and choice of
curriculum so that the students could be effectively
stimulated.
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