Youth In Action Against Poverty and HIV/AIDS ,VOLUNTEER SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER Volunteer Opportunity in Tanzania

Volunteer
Opportunity description

The Anna Mkapa Secondary School
is one of the affordable school in Tanzania( Having 890 Students and 14
Teachers). We minimized their school fees so that the majority of children
living in the Kilimanjaro region can afford to attend their school. Now we
provide teaching from level one to four which includes children from
approximately thirteen to seventeen years of age.

Volunteer teaching assistants
are
needed at this placement to assist the teachers in all subjects that the
volunteers are capable of teaching. Volunteers would be given the school
curriculum in advance in order to be able to review it and see where they best
can assist.

The list of subjects taught are:
mathematics, science, geography, English, civics and history. This requires a
load of work for the teachers in preparing lessons in all subjects for all the
levels of education at the school. Volunteers would be expected to help the
teachers prepare lessons and deliver them.

Teaching the English language at
secondary school is when students from the public school system first are
introduced to English language courses. This is not necessarily the case of
students from private primary schools.

A volunteer teaching assistant at
this placement does not need to have a teaching certificate or previous
experience in teaching but must be a mature individual who is willing to
participate in any of the numerous teaching endeavors. Any volunteer who is
contemplating a career in the teaching field would obtain an unlimited amount
of experience at this placement. It all would depend on the volunteer’s efforts
and commitment.

Volunteer Tasks Required

Teach English

A volunteer teaching assistant at
the school would be expected to teach the English language courses. This would
include English grammar and the speaking and writing of the English language.
Most of the students require a great deal of assistance in this subject as it
is the learning of a second language skill.

Teach Science, Geography
& Math.

The school would appreciate
assistance from the volunteers in teaching science subjects (biology, chemistry
and Physics), as well as geography and mathematics. We don’t have enough
teachers for these subjects so the teachers are forced to alternate subjects
throughout the day.

Homework Assignments

Teaching is the basic reason for
your going to the school so as a volunteer you would be providing teaching
assistant to the students by: helping them better understand what was taught in
class, giving them assignments and making sure they do it. It is one of the
most efficient ways of finding out how much they understood of the lessons
taught that day.

Prepare Lesson Materials

Prepare lesson materials,
bulletin board displays, exhibits and demonstrations for classes. A volunteer
teaching assistant would be expected to discuss with the local teachers the
lessons he/she has prepared for the week.