Engineers, designers, opticians and lab scientists who decided the classroom was where they belonged.
Zeinab Koaik, UAE
Interior designer. Now running the art room.
Zeinab had come into teaching from interior design, and the basics defeated her: engagement, classroom management, adapting activities to what assessment data showed.
Abdulla had built a medical career up to a doctorate, but UAE schools require a teaching qualification and a B.Ed meant starting two more years of study.
Sadiya joined with no teaching experience and a long list of plans, then a personal loss knocked her off track and she came close to withdrawing from the course.
Watching her children's classes with a teacher's eye
Deepthi had always meant to teach, and spent the COVID years watching her own children's online lessons without much idea of what the teacher was doing.
