📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Private Montessori-school with public status for children aged 6-15 years, primary and secondary level. We offer a lot of: outdoor activities, sports activities, projects, creativity, individual and open learning. At our school there are at the moment 70 children/juveniles and 16 teachers, mostly working part-time, 7 teachers at school daily. We start at 7.30 am until 12.30 pm (primary level) and for the secondary level 7.30 am until 12.30 (Monday and Friday) and 7.30 am until 04.00 pm (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). Our school is located in a beautiful house with a huge and adventureous garden for the children to play in. Our hometown Telfs is a community with 16.000 inhabitants in western Austria. Find more on our homepage: www.schulgarten.at
💼 What the programme involves
At Schulgarten – Aktive Montessorischule Telfs (https://europa.eu/youth/volunteering/organisation/57533_en) each child (aged 6 to 15) is treated like an intelligent, emotional and mature human being and is coached based on personal possibilities, abilities and interests by our pedagogic team. They learn free of pressure and over-stress. They are allowed to have their individual pace in learning, achieving and implementing. Tasks and activities: Active participation in the daily routines (lessons, outdoor activities, nature day, leisure time, project-based work, creative projects), Coach the children according to our school concept, Accompany excursions (museums, cultural events) and to sports activities (skiing, climbing), Bring own talents, creative ideas, skills (cooking local dishes, handy-crafts, music), Attend parent-teacher conference evenings, Creating a personal project. The project expectedly lasts from 07.09.2022 until 12.07.2023 (dates may change).
🏠 Accommodation on site
The school is located in the Telfs, with 15.000 inhabitants. There is good infrastructure, opportunities of outdoors and sports, basic shops etc. The regional capital Innsbruck can be reached in 30 minutes via train/bus. Public transport is easily accessible and well organized. The volunteer will receive a ticket valid for the public transport in the region of Tirol. We offer a flat for our volunteers. Each volunteer has his/her own room and there are shared facilities, kitchen, living room and bathroom. Transportation to work is not needed, everything is within walking-distance.
🎒 Leisure activities
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> TO APPLY: Send your Motivation letter, CV, and the application form to Angelika Widauer VIA MAIL. Applications via the Youth Portal will not be considered! More info on how to apply can be found here:
www.infoeck.at/infoeck-eu-jugendprogramme/esk-freiwilligendienst/volunteering-tirol
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We are happy to host a volunteer who: wants to experience working with school children aged 6-9 years or aged 12-15 years,
- is eager to participate actively, is interested in learning more about another culture and different backgrounds, is open-minded, friendly, enthusiastic, creative and communicative, is willing to work in an interdisciplinary team and reflect her/his work, is motivated to learn German (and some Tyrolean German dialect), brings her/his own culture and interests into the project, is ready to volunteer for 10 months starting in September 2022.
Deadline: Application deadline: 26/06/2022
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.