how do Americans feel or should feel about it? no offense meant.

As long as she is qualified for the position then more power to her! If she can come here and help the American school system more power to her. We need all the help that we can get! Like others have said, as long as the kids can understand her there should be no issue. I too had some professors in college that I could not understand at all. I listed to a professor for a week use the word geerow. Finally I had to ask the TA what geerow was, as I could not figure out what he was saying and I could not figure out what it was. Apparently geerow really ment zero.

As long as she is qualified and doesnt have a very think accent, it doesnt bother me. To teach you must have clear communications and if there is a thick accent that is hard to overcome, it can be distracting. I guess that your friend doesnt have that problem since she got a job right away as an English teacher for that matter. I wish her well in our country.

I had a few teachers that were not from America. I didn't have issue with them as long as I could understand them. One school I attended had a science teacher that was from Portugal and no one could understand a word he spoke in English and he couldn't explain everything in 100% English. After a month and a lot of complaints and kids failing, he was fired.

I have found that some foreigners speak more proper and better english than do American children these days. There will be some students that may think it odd and may poke fun at her but those are children of narrow minded parents so don't worry she will be fine!

Our students do not care about nationalities, If your friend is highly intellectual that's all it takes.

When I was in highschool I had many teachers who were from different countries. I had no problem with them because my education was more important to me than where my teacher had come from. Of course not all think like me, but I believe children are more accepting of people from different countries than most adults are.

I am the son of a Retired teacher. In the U.S. a teacher is not paid accordingly. Prepare your friend to have to get a second job to keep up with the cost of living here. We are very short handed on teachers, but the way they are paid, you wouldn't know it. Things will be better off if she is teaching at a college/university or private school. As u should with any job, she should travel to the place where she will teach in advance without notice. Not just the school, but the nieghborhood, and the vibes around the school. I am not trying to scare u guys, but the U.S. is also a Third world country when it comes to respect. But in all I feel your freind will have no problems. With all of the immigrants here she will always be needed if her english is bad because we have English As A Second language courses where she would fit right in. I hope this helps.

I am the son of a Retired teacher. In the U.S. a teacher is not paid accordingly. Prepare your friend to have to get a second job to keep up with the cost of living here. We are very short handed on teachers, but the way they are paid, you wouldn't know it. Things will be better off if she is teaching at a college/university or private school. As u should with any job, she should travel to the place where she will teach in advance without notice. Not just the school, but the nieghborhood, and the vibes around the school. I am not trying to scare u guys, but the U.S. is also a Third world country when it comes to respect. But in all I feel your freind will have no problems. With all of the immigrants here she will always be needed if her english is bad because we have English As A Second language courses where she would fit right in. I hope this helps.

I agree with the previous posts about being able to understand. I have had teachers that were from other countries, but spoke excellent English (probably better than most of the people I know). I have no problem with them. It seems that there is always a shortage of good teachers. However, if the students are unable to understand her, then that would obviously be a problem.

I am not a student, but a classroom staff person. I believe that foreign born English teachers might be more particular, and work harder, just to prove they can do the job. I would probably be pretty accepting of your friend.

yes as long as the teacher speaks english that the students can understand.. then i think he or she will be fine even if she has not set foot in america yet

I have had plenty of foreign teachers and have never had a problem, as long as it was easy to communicate with them, I don't mind at all. But, none of them were ever ENGLISH teachers. I admit that would be rather peculiar, to have someone teaching me english that didn't even have English as their first language. She may have a tough time dealing with attitudes toward that...I don't know. Like, I don't know what language it is that is your first language but, wouldn't it seem somewhat weird to you, if *I* showed up to teach you that language? I wish her luck though. =)

my sister is a teacher here in the states and has worked with teachers from other conuntries and has said that the students dont even care where they're are from.

I can only speak for myself, of course, but it would not have troubled me in the least to have a teacher from the philipines. I may or may not like a teacher due to the teacher's personality and integrity, but not due to where he or she was born or their native language. that would be silly.

As long as she is qualified and understands the language, I don't see a problem. So many Americans aren't traditionally from America that I don't see how it makes much of a difference.

We all have accents. We may not think we do but yep, we all have them. The whole situation in teaching is communication...it doesn't matter as long as real communication occurs. Personality is much more important in my estimation. Personality can get around almost anything, a smile can both encourage or discourage a student. Knowing how and when to smile can make all the difference. Having a passion for the subject can help a lot too...imparting a portion of that passion is what teaching is. It's been a long time since I was a student, but I can remember teachers with accents from other parts of the country and other countries...they all did just fine.

as american i have no problem with foreighner teacher so long is good in her field

Well I had an professor in college that spoke broken english but would go into his native language during his lecture at times. This was very difficult for us as american students to understand. I really don't have a problem with people from other countries coming here to work, but I think if you are going to be a teacher and teach english speaking students, you should teach everything in english. This is the law for teaching children in the US Public Schools. Of course, universities are not under this law.

obviously she speaks well enough to be accepted as an English teacher. I know a young man in Lebanon that has an english teacher from lebanon, he isn't satisfied with her because of her accent. He wants to learn English the way we speak. I myself think a little foreign accent with english sounds cool.

i think that's a great opportunity for the teacher. if she speaks good english and has studied english language then i think that's great for her. students should feel good having a non native speaker as a teacher cause if she can learn and teach english then so can native speakers. because it's twice as hard to learn as a second language.