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Location: English Teachers Urgently Needed to Work in Koh Tao, Thailand
Closing Date: August 13th, 2011
Job Description
The Project
Based on the Thai island of Koh Tao, this is the only school on the island, attended by children aged between 5 and 12 years old. Our teaching project works in close collaboration with the school to teach native Thai children English from native English speaking teachers. Part of the project is to continually encourage the local children to keep attending school and to remain in education to give them better job prospects at the end of their formal education.
The school is home to a diverse range of children as it is the sole educational institution on the island. As a result, the school is full of local and underprivileged children as well as children of expatriates and more wealthy families. As such, your time on the project will be diverse and rich in activities.
Throughout your time volunteering, we try to create a comfortable environment for the locals to speak and interact with foreigners. As a result, the local impact of this project allows for students to learn proper English conversation and grammar, while helping them to pursue continuing education and aids them in attaining a job that utilize the English language
Role of the volunteer
Volunteers support the local teacher in classes of all ages to teach English from Monday – Friday. Your time at the school will vary between two to four hours daily in primary grades one to six (children aged 6 to 12) and you will also spend three hours a week in nursery, helping children aged 3 to 5 years old.
The project requires a lot of hard work and preparation outside of school hours, as well as the actual teaching but is an incredibly rewarding project to be a part of. Your role outside of your teaching hours will be to compile lesson plans, research teaching materials and new activities, to constantly improve your lessons and obtain the best results from the students as well as spending time getting hands on with helping the kids to participate in environmental and community activities along side the other volunteers.
Skills Required
At present, the children study grammar, writing, reading and conversational English so prior knowledge in these areas will be very beneficial. To avoid loss of focus and create interest in learning English, the teachers make part of the lessons interactive, so the kids get to do fun activities like playing educational games, singing, rhyming, drawing and painting, as well as environmental lessons to keep the kids aware and interested in conservation and be active in preserving Koh Tao. You will be an integral part of each of these activities as well as brining your own personal slant to the lessons with your own lesson plans so prior teaching and community experience is needed.
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