Projekte Ecuador: Fundación Proyecto Chiriboga
Requested knowledge of language in all projects: Spanish and English
Teaching English at Local Schools (Grade 1 -10)
CHIRIBOGA-01: Costa
1. Project-host: Three schools in Coastal Region
Region: Costa 2. Number of volunteers: 3
Starting-date: May or September 3. Field of work: Education
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CHIRIBOGA-02: Cordillera
1. Project-host: One school in Highlands
Region: Cordillera 2. Number of volunteers: 1
Starting-date: May or September 3. Field of work: Education
CHIRIBOGA-03: Amazonica
1. Project-host: Two schools in Amazonica
Region: Amazonica 2. Number of volunteers: 2
Starting date: May or September 3. Field of work: Education
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Special qualifications required in ALL projects:
- To have a good knowledge of the Spanish language
- To have a good knowledge of the English language
- To have experience in working with children
- Teaching skills and passion to teach
- To be responsible
- To be involved in the community work with heart and mind
- To have a strong character
- To have no prejudices
- To be very patient with the children
- To involve with heart in the education area with a lot of own creative ideas
- To be able to accept and work in challenging teaching cirumstances (e.g. lack of material or staff, etc) and trying to find ways for the benefit of the children
- To have a defined personality (the volunteers have to teach groups of students with at least 25 up to 50 students)
- To be punctual in their work! School starts at 7:30am, thus volunteers need to get up early, in order to have breakfast and travel to school.
- To respect the new culture with all their customs and to live in such a culture in (very) simple conditions
- To be willing to change one's habits of life
- The volunteer will go to the schools well dressed, well combed, it is forbidden to attend with sandals, small t-shirts, or short pants.
- To offer help in the afternoons for those children - sometimes including other people of the community - who have learning problems
- To dedicate a lot of time to the school children
- To accept the school's itineraries, e.g. Christmas time, Independence Day, Povince Day, Canton Day, school holidays
- To adapt to family rules: in Ecuador families are very protective over young people
- To integrate into the values and rules of the host families and the host culture
- To maintain their rooms clean and in order
- To share home cleaning tasks
Special qualifications recommended in all projects:
- The volunteer is well prepared for the hosting country and the hosting project
- Not to drink alcohol during the working days
- To be organized and dedicated with the entrusted tasks
- Easy adaptation with Ecuadorian food
- To have skills and dynamics to work with children
- To be able to improve any kind of work with children, or adults
- The volunteer can not just be an observer s/he must be part of the solutions (in many cases the volunteers affirm they can not work with children because there is not a library, didactic materials or plays which the volunteers can work with)
- The volunteers need some skills to identify the level of knowledge or limitation of the students
- To be honest and sincere, with all the people involved in order to have a friendly atmosphere
Description of the tasks of the volunteer in all projects:
- To give the opportunity to the students to ameliorate their learning with English (and Computers lessons if needed) (grade 1 - 10)
- To “wake the interest of students” in order to look for new techniques of learning
- To incite the students to participate out of the scholar centres
- To provide opportunities for the maturing and character building of the volunteers, very often volunteers gain unique learning experiences that are no longer available in the traditional centres of learning
- To give the opportunity in two ways (German volunteers –Ecuadorian students) to learn one from another
- To organize extra-curricular activities using the motivation of the students
- The volunteer will make and prepare didactic materials for English lessons, Environmental teaching, or any subject which is taught in benefit of the school
- The volunteer will make a report of every grade where s/he teaches for the benefit of following volunteers
- The volunteer always gives a monthly report to the Principal of the school
- Will work with the same schedules of the rest of teachers or workers depending on the project
- To attend the Seminars in order to evaluate the Program “weltwaerts”
- To give a written report after 3 and 9 months of the placement and at the end of the placement
- The actual tasks can vary according to the projects current needs and depend on the volunteers own initiative