TEACHING PROJECTS

While education, helps us develop it also enables people to acquire skills, knowledge,develop positive attitude and values which are fundamental necessities for asustainable future.As a volunteer for Regular Teaching, you will find it rewarding to teach spoken English,basic Math, Health and Hygiene Awareness, Environmental Education and conductingCo- curricular activities with local schools. The schools teach using Kannada/Tamil asits primary Medium but lacks English Teaching Staff. The main aim of this project is tosupport the faculty and bring an international dimension to learning.Some of the tasks include - Assist during the learning of English as a language using creative teaching methods,encourage and develop learning levels and cognitive skills of the students Assist during extra-curricular activities, inspire children to learn new languages anddifferent culturesAdditionally following tasks may also require your assistance: Develop teaching and learning aids with low or no cost using locally availablematerial, and facilitate simulation games for the children and the teaching faculties Design appropriate tools for development and set certain criteria for assessment ofchildrens learning levels and cognitive skills; Individual goal setting for children withlearning disability; lesson planning etc.Develop teaching-learning methods and pass the methods (through the FinalEvaluation/Report) to future volunteers with a view to creating long-termimprovements.The volunteers are encouraged to bring creative ideas to initiate new activities in theschool, e.g:- for environment, organization or for computer education.It is important for the children to feel the love, care and concern from your part, asyou will be interacting with them every day. If you have interesting ideas in teachingthat includes games, songs, arts, crafts, sports and athletics for children, then thistype of project is for youYou will be teaching a variety of subjects depending on your personal interests andskills. Volunteers should have a good level of spoken English, and previous experiencein teaching children will be useful. Do go through the Info-sheet, which has completeinformation regarding the individual projects with schedules, and activitiesNote: Due to school holidays, these projects will remain closed during the followingmonths: March until May; the month of October; and sometimes in December. Duringthe non-teaching months i.e during the school holidays, FSL India organises camps toits LTVs: Summer Projects (in March/April/May) and Winter camps (in October).