In this post, we speak with Teacher Horizons member and international school teacher, Daniel Akintoye. We discuss his background and his experience with international teaching.

Maxine Huijuan is a Mandarin teacher who started at British School of Bucharest this time last year. As a language and culture teacher, she has always been fascinated by the differences between cultures and intrigued by the different systems via which people live. Exploring the diversity of the world was a big reason for her move to international… Read more »

Jennifer Duffy is one of our talented drama teachers, who has been teaching in Italy, at International School in Genoa now for two years. In this blog she explains how she found the role, and what her life has been like so far in the beautiful city of Genoa.   Where are you teaching and what’s your school… Read more »

Vicky Harris has been teaching Business Studies in Istanbul for almost a whole school year now. She has answered some of the important questions about what the area and the school is like. Have a read if you are considering taking up a position in Turkey and want to know more! Where are you teaching… Read more »

Istanbul is a vibrant and energetic city famous for bridging the East and West. One of Europe’s most cosmopolitan and culturally rich cities, it’s a wonderful place to live and offers an excellent quality of life for teachers. Especially when you work at one of the top schools in the country! Daniel Blanco has just spent… Read more »

Hello, teachers! Are you rested? Are you having fun? Have you forgotten all about schools or are you secretly missing it? Regardless where you’re at I decided to tackle the Teacher Horizons blog with a holiday spirit at least during the two summer months which mark your precious time off work – more or less…. Read more »

Hej! Have you heard of Carlsberg, Legoland, H.C. Andersen, Helene Christensen, Mikkel Mikkelsen, Lurpak and frikadeller? Well surprise surprise, they are all from Denmark! Teaching in Denmark has been an amazing adventure since I moved here from New Zealand about 18 months ago. Here are a few things that I can share about living here as… Read more »

Istanbul is a vibrant city that spans two continents, and yet has its own identity with a unique mix of both European and Middle eastern cultures.

I’ve seen a lot of changes come and go during my teaching career in the past twenty years. Here in Sweden we got a bit of a shock when the last PISA-results were announced. Right now, we’re thinking long and hard about how to improve student performance in both reading and maths.

Unlike many, I hadn’t come to Italy in search of its fine culture of good food, wine and the works of Da Vinci. And even the thought of ever potentially working out there as a teacher had never really occurred to me until I was in need of immediate work.