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I am reading A woman makes a plan: advice for a lifetime of adventure, beauty, and success by Maye Musk, but I've never seen the use of 'teach' in 'teaching this modeling school' in this context:

“Here was this beautiful woman,” she will say, “who is teaching this modeling school. Great model, dresses terribly. Just terribly.”

I learned from here that the correct one should be 'teach at a school'. Is the collocation 'teaching a school' idiomatic? If not, why is 'teach a class' correct?

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  • A single teacher doesn't teach a whole school, unless it's a very small one. I find "Here was this woman... who is teaching" strange as well.
    – Kate Bunting
    Commented Mar 14 at 8:55
  • @KateBunting But that's exactly what I read, and as so far as I have cruised through the book the diction in the book is very good except for this minor issue.
    – Lerner Zhang
    Commented Mar 14 at 9:02
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    I don't know anything about modelling schools; maybe in this one the number of students was small enough for one woman to teach them all. I meant that in an ordinary school (for children), that's why we say teach a class but not usually teach a school.
    – Kate Bunting
    Commented Mar 14 at 9:20

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"Teach" is a transitive or intransitive verb (meaning to instruct). Your quoted text is acceptable.

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