Although only 20 percent of teacher education students nationwide who completed their training and were certified during the 2009 spring semester were employed as teachers during the 2009 fall semester (U.S. Department of Education ED Review statistics, Nov. 20, 2009), 100 percent of Western Kentucky University (WKU) teacher education spring 2009 graduates who participated in an international student teaching experience were employed as teachers during the fall 2009 semester. That statistic, while impressive, results from two factors. First, students who successfully complete such an experience are talented, outgoing, adventurous, and well-prepared, and they have been carefully screened and selected. The second factor results from the experience itself. In other words, these students who have actually traveled elsewhere and have experienced cultural differences firsthand during their preparatory teaching can be and are expected to be highly successful in working with students of varying cultures and abilities. This paper describes how WKU started internationalizing its student teaching experience and discusses how the program benefited its participants.