Teaching Placement in Local Schools

The project

If teaching is your career of choice, and you are looking for unique opportunities, you should consider an international teaching internship. Education is a crucial tool in helping the children of developing countries to have a brighter future, but an internship program can also benefit an ambitious professional who wants to make their job application stand out from the crowd.

We hope that by volunteering you will be able to help local children to improve both spoken and written English, as well as other more general skills, like computing. All volunteers must have good conversational English abilities and enjoy working with children. Previous teaching experience is highly valued but not essential for this placement.

Introductory week

Your placement will start with a Cultural Discovery Week, which will introduce you to the Balinese way of life, and prepare you for the rest of your placement. This week is automatically included in your placement. Your schedule will look like this;

Monday
After our coordinator collects you from the airport, you’ll be taken to check in at your guest house. The day begins with a briefing to outline your program, and to tell you our house rules. You’ll be introduced to Bali on a walking tour of Monkey Street, the main commercial road in the city. There’ll be a welcome dinner, followed by a traditional Balinese dance in Ubud palace.

Tuesday
After breakfast, you’ll be given a language lesson to teach you some key phrases. After that, you’ll go on a walking tour of the village, where you’ll get to experience how Balinese families live.

Wednesday
After breakfast, you’ll be given a language lesson to teach you some key phrases. In the afternoon, you’ll go to a local batik shop, where you’ll learn how to draw, and paint your own batik designs.

Thursday
You will be given a Balinese Cooking Class. You will learn to cook Balinese food. In the after noon you’ll learn how to make an offering to God, and the spirits of the Hindu religion. There will be a flower offering class, and you’ll be taught how to make a flower basket. You can use your flower offering in the next day.

Friday
Spiritual Tour: We will bring your Flower offering to the Holy temple. We go to visit the famous temple " Pura Tirta Empul " the holy water temple and you can enjoy a shower with the Holy Water.
You’ll be free to enjoy your weekend however you choose, and you will start your volunteer placement on the following Monday!

The location

Bali is an Indonesian island located in the Western region of the Lesser Sunda Islands, between Java, and Lombok. It is one of the country's 33 provinces with the provincial capital at Denpasar in the south of the island.

Bali is renowned for its diverse and sophisticated art forms such as painting, sculpture, woodcarving, handcrafts, performing arts and Balinese percussion orchestra music, known as gamelan. Balinese art often portrays stories from Hindu epics such as the Ramayana but with a heavy Balinese influence. Dancing is extremely prominent in local culture, and famous Balinese dances include pendet, legong, baris, topeng, barong, gong keybar, and kecak (the monkey dance). Bali boasts one of the most diverse and innovative performing arts cultures in the world, with paid performances at thousands of temple festivals, private ceremonies, or public shows throughout the year.

Volunteers are invited to teach English and Special Education to the children of local primary schools in Bali. You’ll be free to choose how you want to teach, and will have access to facilities both in a school and in our centre premises. You’ll be asked to work throughout the week, from Monday to Friday. Your timetable will be created based on your skills, and our needs. You’ll be given time to plan your sessions, as well as evaluate the lessons you’ve delivered.

Teaching English will be your main task, but you might be asked to offer other subjects, such as arts and crafts; or sports like football, hockey, cricket and athletics.