An itinerant teacher teaching in a bush school in Queensland

Itinerant teachers (also called "visiting" or "peripatetic" teachers) are traveling schoolteachers. They are sometimes specialized to work in the trades, healthcare, or the field of special education, sometimes providing individual tutoring.

Historically, the term has also been used to describe traveling teachers in regions without formal schools, as well as the sophists of Ancient Greece, the disciples of Jesus of Nazareth, and even Jesus of Nazareth himself. Itinerant lecturers include James Ferguson (Scottish astronomer).

References

• Lynch, Paul; Steve McCall (June 2007). "The role of itinerant teachers". Community Eye Health. 20 (62): 26–27. PMC 1906922. PMID 17612693.