Volunteer Online Teachers Needed

EnglishWorks is looking for volunteers to begin next week ! If you want to practice your teaching skills , learn and have fun with brazilian students from your home, you should apply!

Skype Volunteer Project

EnglishWorks English course, focuses in develop and improve in its students the ability to communicate in English, using the tourism context as the trigger to generate conversation. To achieve this goal it is imperative that the students have many opportunities to listen and speak English.

The listening and speaking opportunities are given to the students throughout the class, using the technological tools available in the classroom and the support of monitors and volunteers that are in class.

EnglishWorks is implemented in low income communities in the city of Rio, where the students rarely have the opportunity to interact with native and/or fluent speakers of English, for this reason we implemented the routine using skype to have one-to-one conversations between native/fluent speakers and the students, to practice the use of language they learned in class and go further in conversations if the student is ready for it.

The one-to-one conversation with native/fluent speakers of English, brings to the classes not only the contact with the use of language, but with different cultures.

The goal

The main goal of the skype volunteers project is to increase the opportunities to listen and speak English, the students will have during the EnglishWorks classes.

Location, duration and resources

EnglisWorks in 2014 is implemented in 7 communities of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Penha, Madureira, Irajá, Nova Brasília (complexo do alemã0), Santa Cruz, Vila Aliança e Padre Miguel and is a partnership between Sequoia Foundation and the Secretaria de Ciência e Tecnologia through the Project called Naves do Conhecimento.

The classrooms are equipped with internet and laptops, one for each student.

The duration of the classes is 2 hours once a week .

At the end of the class, the students have 30 to 45 min to do online activities on Moodle, this is when they can go one each time to interact on Skype with the native speakers.

The native speaker will then, be at home or other location, that has to be appropriate to allow the conversation to flow without interruptions.

Duration:

September10th to November 26th

Wednesdays

11:00 – 11:40

15: 00 – 15:40 (Level 2)

17:15 – 17:50

19:30 20:10

September 12th to November 28th

Fridays

10:30 -11:10

12:45- 13:25

15:45 -16:25

18:10 18:40 (Level 2)

Profile of the volunteer

The person interested in volunteering with EnglishWorks, must believe in social change through education.

We need a minimum engagement of 40 min per week on Wednesdays or Fridays for the interactions with students and time every week to study the language structures that will be used in the conversation that will take around 10 more minutes a week.

The volunteer must have access to a computer with good internet connection in a location that allows the conversation to flow without interruption.

Certificate

The volunteer will receive a certificate at the end of the course.

Send your resume until Friday September 5th to :
npatricia@sqafoundation.org

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