Chicago Public Schools are going to great lengths to hire teachers-now the school district recruits teachers from other countries to help solve a shortage of teachers. It all started in 1999, when Rouses Hannon, a math and physics teacher from Palestine, visitedChicago. He read about the teacher shortage atChicago Public Schools and asked the school board if they’d hire him. The board was interested and decided to create a special program for foreign-born teachers like Hannon, and he was the first teacher hire
D、 The program is called the GlobalEducator Outreach or GEO, and it’s a partnership between inChicago is so extreme, the Government allows the school district to temporarily hire foreign teaching candidates using H1-B、visas. The Government grants these vise only to skilled foreign-born citizens so they can work in highly specialized jobs that can’t be filled with available U.S. workforce. Through the GEO, the school district has hired dozens of teachers from 22 different countries.Applicants must pass anEnglish language test and specialize in math, science, world language or bilingual education. Hannon and the first GEO teachers started in the classroom at the beginning of the 2000-2001 school year. What do the GEO teachers think of theAmerican classroom Hannon.who was hired to teach math at Gage Park High School,says classrooms inChicago are very different from those in Palestine.For one thing,he says,the fixed schedule that forces students to attend the same classes at the same time each day becomes too dull.In Palestine,the class schedule changes each week.He says in Palestine,the colure forces students to work hard because if they don’t they’ll he kicked cut and put in vocational schools,which limits their career options.There is not nearly as much pressure forAmerican students to do well.He says he has lo do double the amounts of work just to get his students intereste D、