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Literature Review

Stephanie Massimino

National University

TED 690-Capstone Course

December 1, 2016

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Abstract:
The following pages are a literature review of Exchange Teaching for Professional Growth by
Margaret J. Butcher. By leaving ones own country or state even it allows the person and teacher
to experiences outside of their normal place. These experiences then help the teacher create new
techniques and skills that before may have not been something they knew they needed. These
experiences add to our journey as teachers and enhances are abilities as educators.

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A teacher is someone who is will influence people and generations to come. They influence
those generations not just through their subject matter but also through their example, their
criticism, and their general position towards students and ideas. By being an exchange teacher
you are moved into an environment that you may not be accustomed too and therefore have to
begin to develop ways of teaching within this environment. This is what Margaret J. Butcher
talks about in her Article Exchange Teaching for Professional Growth.
As an educator, the biggest thing one needs to be able to do is be open and inclusive of all
people and cultures. By doing an exchange program it allows the teacher to leave their country
and experience what another countrys culture and education structure is like. The first thing I
think it does is allows the teacher to learn new was of teaching information. As Margaret J.
Butcher states The opportunity to teach in a new environment, then, with the privileges and the
quite normal sense of detachment that guest teachers are accorded, is one that permits not only
the obvious release physically, but affords the teacher on leave unwonted leisure for revising, or
completely changing, his teaching and lecturing materials. This allows the teacher to grow as
an educator and as discussed in the article then the teacher will go home and be more effective to
his students from his new experiences in his field.
As a history teacher, there may also come times when subjects of emotional sensitivity need
to be used. When a teacher is around students who are already exposed to these things it becomes
easier to product the lessons and ideas of the events or situations without ones own personal
beliefs being brought up. While be an exchange teacher this may not the case as some things
questions or discussions will come because you are not of the same country or belief structure as
your students. As Exchange Teaching for Professional Growth states Penetrating questions are
posed about our democracy, actual and theoretical, about our sense of culture and tradition, about

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our economies and our confusing politics. He who is questioned must be prepared to make
responses that are honest, that can be supported with argument and reasonable explanation, and
that are representative of sincere belief. This begins the understanding as a teacher of just how
much you can influence or affect a students structure or beliefs.
While teaching we as teachers should always be willing to open ourselves up to now learning
and student possibilities. The more we experience the easier we are to create lessons that
inclusive and universal to all students. It also makes us better as teacher the more cultures we
open ourselves up to as it allows us to know how to teach to those kids as well. Personal growth
also comes from being a part of the exchange program as a person it allows you to experience
life in ways you had not before which helps you grow in your own life.

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References:
Margaret J. Butcher. Exchange Teaching for Professional Growth. The Journal of Negro
Education. Vol. 19, No. 2 (Spring, 1950), pp. 211-214
http://www.jstor.org.nuls.idm.oclc.org/stable/pdf/2965998.pdf