School Teaching Assistant

Voluntary teaching assistant work in Ghana is an ideal way to get involved and help improve the welfare and education of the children. You can contribute toward this important development work during a gap year or career break, or as a worthwhile way to spend a vacation. Energy, passion, and commitment to the work at hand are all that you need.You will be helping teach children in the local community with a partner school under the supervision of trained Ghanaian staff how to read and write.  Your participation will really benefit the children you work with, while gaining valuable skills yourself. Teaching in community schools with limited resources provides an engaging environment for educating children and teenagers. Your ideas, energy, and presence are exciting for students and invigorating for the teachers and parents. The students are full of curiosity about the world around them and they welcome your perspective, you will also serve or be seen as a positive role models to students. You will be placed in one of our community schools where you can choose to teach a class on your own or assist a local teacher till you are confident or ready to teach solo. You can choose to teach pre-schools (age 1 to 6-years), primary (age 7 to 11), junior high or senior high school. You may also be involved in creative projects and non-classroom based activities which help create a stimulating learning environment. All our community schools are under staffed and this is a common phenomenon in both rural and urban areas of Ghana, hence the need to recruit and place volunteers in communities where there are simply insufficient teachers to cater for the number of children.  You will be effectively placed in rural and urban   

communities where  you will teach solo and assist the few teachers available to teach basic  subjects  like English, Mathematics, Science, French, environmental studies, physical education, creative art, drama, music, and Computer from per-schools(1-year to 6-year), primary (7-year to 12-years), junior high

Your responsibilities will include but not limited to the following

Below;

>> Prepare lesson notes >> Organize learning materials >> Develop a

>> teaching method >> Teach classes through lecturing, discussions and

>> Demonstrations >> Discuss output and methods with fellow teachers and

>> Supervisor >> Access the performance of the students through work

>> Assignments, etc. >> Organize recreational games with students.

Volunteering for Future For Africa is flexible. This provides you with great chances to get out and see as much of Ghana as you can. Weekends provide a good time to get into the cites and the countryside  and see the sights or even take an overnight bus to an attraction further afield and you can take a few extra days on to weekend trips to make them worthwhile. Places to visit includes Mole National Park, Kakum National Park ,Paga Crocodile Pond ,Tongo Hills , Green House Eco Village Karimenga and the Cape Coast Castle