While my lovely husband is looking after the kids at home, I am doing a teacher training course through the College of New Jersey. Surprisingly though, it's not held in New Jersey, but as an extension program in Johannesburg, S. Africa. It's an intense 3 weeks - followed by a year long distance course, and then another 3 weeks next summer. It's quite a different course than a PGCE from UK, but it will give me a piece of paper at the end that the International Schools will be happy with! On the course, we have teachers (and wannabe teachers) from all over the world - China, Turkey, Japan, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, S. Africa, Kenya, and then me and another guy from Uganda. One of the main criteria for the course is that you are teaching in an International School. There has been a TONNE of reading - a lot about child psychology, which has been very interesting but VERY deep! I'm attaching a picture that has some of the students on it, on one of our day trips to the National Museum of S. Africa.
