Introduction

We described in the preface how this book grew out of our shared experience teaching on the PGCEi, a qualification for teachers in international schools. Many of the participants on this course have come to teaching as a way of funding their travels or, once they have found a place to settle in, or a person to settle with, they have taken to teaching as a way of supporting their new family life. This is not to say that teaching is entirely functional for them, is simply a way of making money; on the contrary many participants have started in language support or teaching English as a second language and realised that teaching is the job for them.