Volunteer Teaching Local Schools in Ghana - Lowest Fees & High-Impact Projects
Highlights
- Volunteer teaching local schools in Ghana to local children with difficulties and make a local impact while improving their educational prospects.
- Gain real-life experience in teaching abroad in a limited resources country and gain self-confidence as a result.
- Assist local school staff and provide them with additional resources while infusing new ideas in classes.
- Discover a new country and a new way of life
- Make unforgettabe memories travelling with your fellow volunteers at weekends to places such as Mole Safari Park, Cape Coast Castle & Boti Waterfall.
Overview
The Teaching Local Schools in Ghana project provides the children with some basic education to help them get ahead in life, as well as two meals a day, which they probably wouldn’t get otherwise. The schools caters to young children to give them the education they need to succeed in life. This teaching local schools in Ghana project has been set up in a penurious communities in Ghana. The schools have been solely funded through volunteer contributions and foreign government support.
The Teaching Local Schools in Ghana project works with the school's headteachers to follow through the needs of the pupils at any given time.The schools classes are large with over 40 pupils per teacher, making it difficult for the teachers to provide the one-on-one attention some pupils might need. The Teaching Local Schools in Ghana project also works with the government schools to provide the curriculum the children need.
Important Information
The real need for this project at the moment is to teach pupils English as well as reading, but you may be asked to teach other subjects. Depending on your interest and qualifications, you will be teaching local children according to the Ghanaian national curriculum. You may be placed in the local community school with a handful of children, or you may be placed in the local government school in larger classroom settings. You might be expected to plan the lessons, give discipline while respecting the local culture. Your responsibility will be to improve the literacy, numeracy and communications skills of the pupils in innovative ways. Volunteers tend to bring a lot of creativity to teaching that is not traditional in Ghana. And in some cases, pupils learn better through games and innovative ways.
Please NOTE: A positive and dynamic attitude is required for this project. Also, flexibility and patience is key to be working with the children. Someone independent and self-supporting is important to teach these children with an often difficult situation at home.