GVA Teaching Project

  Ghana

• Accra: 
Accra

Durations of Program: 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks and 3-6 months
Typical Duration of Program: 1-2 weeks
Dates: Please contact us for more details.

Description: We are in need of volunteers who will assist teachers or teach.

Highlights: Education is an important tool in development. Teaching spoken English and extra curricular activities to local school children and seeing the impact this makes on the children can be a very rewarding experience.

You will be working in a Local School, which is lacking in resources or teaching staff. The aims of this project are to support the teaching staff in the classroom and bring an international dimension where your tasks will be; Assisting with English language learning, Using creative teaching methods to encourage and develop learning in the students, Assisting with extra-curricular activities, Inspiring children to learn new languages and learn about new cultures, and teaching the students about your country.

You will be developing teaching methods, planning ideas in the group and passing this information through for future volunteers in a view to create long-term improvements in an educational model, which will be created with the help of hundreds of volunteers.

The volunteers should bring creative ideas to initiate new activities in the school, for example, in environmental, organizational, or computing. You have to love children, as they everyday will surround you with. 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 any subject depending on your personal interests and skills. Volunteers should have a good level of spoken English and some knowledge in teaching children will be useful.

Qualifications: College/University

Minimum Education: High School

Cost in US$: 600

Experience Required: yes

No

Typical Volunteer: Must be fit and strong.

Age Range: 18

This Program is open to American, Asian, Australian, Canadian, European, Kiwi, South African and Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Ghana Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Job and Internship Network

Global Volunteers Africa's Mission Statement: Our main objective is promoting Global Understanding/Inter-cultural programs and to work for togetherness to make the World a better place for all through Youth Mobility. Global Volunteers Africa (GVA) acts as a support structure to assist rural and urban dwellers in the areas of education, health, empowerment of women, and to promote cultural diversity programmes. We work with all ages, genders, and all ethnic groups in Ghana, especially at the rural level. Global Volunteers Africa (GVA) does projects that are always in co-operation with the local community, and always in a section where the volunteers can make a real positive impact towards the local communities, by encouraging the work initiated by GVA and the volunteers.

Year Founded: 2006