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Help teach Math in Primary and Junior High Schools in Ghana

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The experience

This program is designed for volunteers to teach math lessons in primary and Junior high schools in rural and semi-rural communities in Ghana based on the Ghana Education Curriculum. This program is suitable for students, volunteers, solo travelers, career breakers, gap years and participants from all over the world.
This curriculum is designed to help children:
Develop basic ideas of quantity and space etc.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Child Care: Caring for, playing with, and spending time with children.

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 25 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers, Materials for volunteer activities, and Donation to project

Description: Volunteers' fees cover accommodation, 3 meals daily, airport pickup, orientation, visa support letter, pre-departure information pack, donation to project, in-country supervision & support by project staff, utility bills, certificate upon project completion, reference letter upon request.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Accommodation: Get discounts for your stay in other hostels.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Beginner English

Between 18 and 70 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

This program is designed for volunteers to teach math lessons in primary and Junior high schools in rural and semi-rural communities in Ghana based on the Ghana Education Curriculum. This program is suitable for students, volunteers, solo travelers, career breakers, gap years and participants from all over the world.

This curriculum is designed to help children:

Develop basic ideas of quantity and space.
Use basic mathematics and necessary strategies for solving problems encountered in daily lives by recognizing relationships between numbers.
Communicate effectively using mathematics terms and symbols.
Use appropriate instruments for various systems of measurement.
Reason logically by selecting and applying criteria for clarification and generalization.

As a math teaching volunteer, you will provide an engaging classroom within a multi-cultural and community-centered environment for learning and growing with children. Volunteers will provide instructions on an array of math-related subjects to students.

There is no specific qualification related to join the project. Volunteers should be enthusiastic, reliable, flexible, patient, understand and passion for teaching and caring for children. Volunteers must also respect the locals and the host organizations, along with their rules and projects. Those who have prior teaching experience may be able to take on a more independent role to teach and lead classes with limited resources. You should keep a flexible attitude towards working in a new and multi-cultural environment.

Teaching project supplies

Picture books, instruments or other teaching materials related to your subject such as pens, pencils, color pens, novels, games, stickers, crayons, exercise books, story books, chalk, abacus for counting, marker pens etc.

Activities & Shift

Volunteers wake up and breakfast time is 7:00-7:30 am.
Work starts by 8 am.
Lunch break is 12:00-12:30pm
Closing period is 2pm.

There are other options which volunteer decide to help the children with homework and learn extra co-curricular activities like local games etc.
Dinner is usually around 5:00 pm-5:30pm.
We work from Monday to Friday in the week.

Weekends are free and volunteers have opportunity to visit tourist attractions like highest waterfall, monkey sanctuary, canopy walk among others within the country.

Rules

We expect all volunteers to respect our local culture, directions, be flexible and humble themselves during their stay at our place.