📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Ukrainian Catholic University
💼 What the programme involves
Project: the annual English Summer School (ESS) is an intensive English course which provides opportunities for spiritual growth, challenging work and fun. Its primary objectives are to enable students to immerse themselves in an English speaking community in order to become fluent English speakers and to create a prayerful, retreat-like environment in keeping with Eastern Christian traditions. As a rule School hosts up to 100 students and around 20 teachers.
Work: teaching English. Special Orientation program (lasts 3-4 days) will be provided in L'viv, the teachers will be lodged at UCU Residential College. We encourage the volunteer teachers to stay for a day or two after the camp (we take care of the lodging if it's up to 3 days) to say a proper "good-bye" to the students and do some more sightseeing in city. During the orientation program the teachers get to know each other, there's team-building and basic instruction in the methodology of teaching ESL.
The Academic Program is centered on five daily classes, three in the morning and two in the afternoon. Since two teachers are always assigned to each class, they can help each other or do some in-class-tutoring.
Besides regular classes we also have evening tutoring and evening activities. So, this is not just teaching, but also creating an English-speaking environment and a community of people who enjoy studying and spending time together. Detailed schedule can be send upon request.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Since all of the program participants live in one building, the interaction between the teachers and students is quite intensive. Volunteers will be accommodated in rooms (2 persons per room). Three meals per day will be provided.
📍 About the location
L'viv region has a lot of places of interests that is why you will not feel lack of historical places to visit: castles, monasteries, churches. L'viv itself is a beautiful city of authentic architecture, which is non-formal capital of Western Ukraine. There will an opportunity to visit many museums and other interesting places in L'viv.
During the orientation program in L'viv, the volunteer teachers will have a guided tour of the central part of L'viv and a visit to a museum. During the school, on the second Sunday of the program, the teachers will be taken on a tour to one of the tourist or religious spots nearby the campsite. Also volunteers will have opportunity to stay after the project few days more for proper city discovering.
ℹ️ Additional information
For English speaking volunteers