Table 2

Average scores for closed survey questions

Question numberQuestionMSD
1.1To what degree did GST impact your ability to identify ways that the school culture (e.g. values, norms and practices) is different from your students' home culture?8.61.3
1.2To what degree did GST impact your ability to implement strategies to minimize the effects of the mismatch between your students’ home culture and the school culture?8.081.23
1.3To what degree did GST impact your ability to establish positive home-school relations?7.921.89
1.4To what degree did GST impact your ability to use a variety of teaching methods?8.561.89
1.5To what degree did GST impact your ability to develop a community of learners when your class consists of students from diverse backgrounds?9.362.15
1.6To what degree did GST impact your ability to develop a personal relationship with your students?9.21.05
1.7To what degree did GST impact your ability to revise instructional material to include a better representation of cultural groups?8.761.03
1.8To what degree did GST impact your ability to critically examine the curriculum to determine whether it reinforces negative cultural stereotypes?7.921.49
1.9To what degree did GST impact your ability to explain new concepts using examples that are taken from your students’ everyday lives?9.121.14
1.10To what degree did GST impact your ability to use the interests of your students to make learning meaningful for them?9.520.8
1.11To what degree did GST help prepare you to work with ELLs?8.00.97
1.12To what degree did GST helped prepare you to meet the needs of diverse learners?8.760.79

Note(s): Scale 1–10 (1 = very little or no impact, 5 = somewhat impacted, 10 = greatly impacted)

Source(s): Authors’ own work

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