📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Teaching Children between the ages of 6 to 16 Year old. PLEASE NOTE : Due to school holidays, these projects will remain closed during the following months: March until May; in the month of October; and sometimes in December.
During these months, volunteers are encouraged to take part in the Summer camps (March/April) and/or Winter camps (October). These camps are organised by FSL- India and are open to our LTVs in 'Regular Teaching' projects.
💼 What the programme involves
Education is an important tool for development. Teaching spoken English, basic Math, Health and Hygiene awareness, Environmental education and conducting co-curricular activities with local school children can be a rewarding experience.
You will be working in a Kannada/Tamil Medium School, which lacks in resources and/or English teaching staff. One of the important aims of this project is to support the staff in the classroom and to bring an international dimension to learning. Your tasks will be to assist with English language learning using creative teaching methods to encourage and to develop learning levels and cognitive skills of the students. You will also assist with extra-curricular activities, inspiring children to learn new languages and learn about new cultures.
Additionally, you may have to assist in the following tasks:
a) - Develop teaching and learning aids with low cost or no cost locally available materials, and facilitate simulation games for the children and the teaching faculties.
b) - Undertake capacity development of teaching faculty in classroom management; children's learning needs assessment.
c) - Design developmentally appropriate tools and criteria for assessment of children's learning levels and cognitive skills; Individual goal setting for children with learning disability; lesson planning etc.
d) - Develop teaching-learning methods and pass this information (through the Final Evaluation/Report) to future volunteers with a view to creating long-term improvements to the educational model.
The volunteers should bring in creative ideas to initiate new activities in the school, for example - environmental, organizational or computer education. You have to love children, as you will be surrounded by them every day. If you have many ideas in teaching different kinds of activities such as games, songs, arts and crafts or sports and athletics to children, then this type of project is for you! You will be teaching a variety of subjects depending on your personal interests and skills. Volunteers should have a good level of spoken English, and previous experience in teaching children will be useful.
The Info-sheet will have more information regarding the individual projects with schedules, and activities.
Note: Please note that due to school holidays, these projects will remain closed during the following months: March until May; in the month of October; and sometimes in December.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You could be staying with local families near to the project. You could be sharing rooms with 2-3 volunteers or staying on your own. Sometimes, projects provide accommodation for the volunteers. The project will provide a room that is shared by other volunteers or with the staff of the project.
📍 About the location
Our projects are spread out across different regions in South India. Your project location could be in any one of the following locations - Bangalore, Mysore, Chennai, Kundapur, Udupi, Mangalore, North Karnataka or Pondicherry. You will be notified of the location of your project a month prior to your arrival. During the Orientation week, one can find out the leisure activities around your area. There are lots of things to do in south of India.
ℹ️ Additional information
Project starts on the first Monday of each month.