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EFL Teaching in a Nepali-Medium School

  India
    Kalimpong

Durations of Program: 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks and 3-6 months
Typical Duration of Program: 9-12 weeks
Dates: Various

Description: This school (the Alghara Primary school) of 12 teachers and 400 children has been in existence for more than 100 years. Based in the small bazaar town of Algarah, 15 kilometres from Kalimpong, at an altitude of 5840ft. Algarah is home to approximately 3000 people. However, unemployment is high, with many working as casual labourers in part time work.

Teaching at Algarah, like at all government primary schools in the Darjeeling district is taught primarily in Nepali, and so the need for English teaching is particularly great. When children move to secondary school, the teaching medium changes to English, so those who come from government schools, rather than private English schools, are at a disadvantage. Volunteers will quickly pick up the ruidiments of Nepali in this environment; the children's English is basic.

EFL Teaching in a Nepali-Medium School

Highlights: A chance to teach children who will really respond to you on a personal level, in a beautiful part of the world.

Qualifications: We are looking for volunteers with a love of children and a desire to teach. In addition,the qualities you will need to make a useful contribution to your school are: resilience and adaptability, an open mind and an interest in other cultures, good mental and physical health, and tact and diplomacy.

Minimum Education: Diploma/Certification

Languages :
  • English
  • Cost in US$: From USD 550 for two months

    Cost Includes :
  • Food
  • Housing
  • In-country staff support
  • Registration fees
  • Written materials pre-departure
  • Cost Include Description:

    * Placement at a school
    * Support from a local HELP representative
    * Written documentation about all aspects of working and living in your Himalayan community
    * Full board and accommodation with a host family.
    * A donation to the school and to other HELP-supported projects

    Salary / Pay: The rewards are non-monetary: the pleasure of helping a poor community in a fabulous part of the world.

    Experience Required: yes

    If you have no experience of teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL), you will need to take a short course in TEFL (an intensive weekend course would be the minimum requirement). A love of children and an ability to communicate skills and knowledge to them is essential. Our volunteers must also be mature, patient, tolerant and diplomatic.

    Volunteer Types :
  • academic reinforcement
  • athletics
  • childcare/children
  • education
  • English teaching
  • primary education
  • sports
  • teaching
  • volunteering
  • youth
  • Typical Volunteer: HELP volunteers are mature adults who are adventurous, self-sufficient, independent, resourceful, tolerant of other cultures and diplomatic. Our volunteers are usually, but not exclusively, graduates, or people taking a career break, or retired.

    Age Range: 19 +

    This Program is open to Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Couples and Individuals

    Typical Living Arrangements :
  • Home-stays
  • Participants Travel to India Independently

    Typically Participants Work Independently

    Application Process Involves:

    • In-Person Interview when Feasible
    • Letters of Reference
    • Phone Interview
    • Resume
    • Written Application

    Post-Program Services Include:

    • Alumni Network

    Himalayan Education Lifeline Programme's Mission Statement: The Himalayan Education Lifeline Programme (HELP) is a charity registered by the Charity Commission of England and Wales. The aim of HELP is to enhance the lives of poor Himalayan communities by supporting selected educational and training projects. HELP realizes its aims by enabling responsible and committed people from the developed world to: - sponsor young people with the potential to benefit from a school or college education, but without the means to do so. - make a donation to provide grants to individual students, and also to schools and health clinics that lack the means to acquire the materials or premises required to provide a satisfactory service to their communities. - undertake short-term assignments as volunteers in support of educational and training projects

    Year Founded: 2002

     



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