"I suffered from anxiety after I was put into a school on my year abroad teaching placement," says Susie (not her real name).
Universities offer PGCE courses which include a teaching placement alongside lectures.
Sam is now in South Korea on a teaching placement and plans to get into teaching on his return to the UK.
Arriving at any new job is daunting; walking through the school gates to start a teaching placement is in a fear-league of its own.
"When I'm on teaching placement I don't feel so well off because I have to pay extra travel costs.
"I went from learning a few words to doing a teaching placement in a deaf school and being trained by the UN in special education".
When I finished university, I moved myself to a teaching placement with an indigenous community in the Northern Territory and was adopted by an Aboriginal family, who are still my family now.
The programme, which offers a month-long teaching placement at Pyongyang Tourism College in the secretive country's capital city, is run by Juche Travel Services (JTS), a certified travel company which promises "unparalleled levels of interaction and engagement with local Koreans".
Student teachers were placed in a 16-week student teaching placement in one of the 10 classroom teacher's rooms.
The triads work together during the 16-week student teaching placement to introduce upper elementary students to engineering concepts by integrating engineering activities in the cooperating teacher's classroom.
