What are the key differences in culture, including education, compared to your own that you will need to grasp and understand before taking up your post?
‘Because we are human, we can never hope to be culture-free in teaching and evaluating our students, but we can at least attempt to be culture-fair by being sensitive to our own biases and by recognising that cultural differences do not represent deficiencies.’
What biases do you think teachers of English should be sensitive to when teaching in a non-English speaking country? How can we strive to be culture-fair in the classroom? You can focus on one specific non-English speaking country if you wish to.