General Teaching Volunteer
Location
Chios
Minimum Commitment
6 weeks
Type of Position
Volunteer Opportunity
Start date
Immediately
About the position
Join our teams on Chios working across a number of exciting centres, including the Youth Centre, Mastic Campus and High School. Engage with students and help deliver high-quality classes in foreign languages and other subjects. Provide psychosocial support, facilitate activities, and create a welcoming, safe spaces for all our students.
Requirements
Key responsibilities of the job include:
providing support to children and adults in their development of the English language
Developing and delivering lesson plans in the following subjects: English, maths and science
helping to develop programmes of learning activities and adapting appropriate materials
Provide social support including creating an environment to build the confidence, resilience and self-esteem of participants
motivating and encouraging pupils
attending regular meetings and buddy talks with supervisor
Travelling on the bus to pick up students to and from the camp
Participating in the youth centre activities including developing project ideas, facilitating a team of teenagers in cooking a meal, providing social support when needed
Attending weekly trainiings
Reporting any child or adult protection concerns
Remaining flexible based on the project needs
Your set of skills:
Background in teaching, ESL, social work or youth work
You possess knowledge of the higher education sector, non-formal education or are experienced in non-academic, pedagogic fields of action.
You share our vision of a world in which everyone has equal chances to education.
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Multi-tasker who performs well under pressure.
About the organisation
Action for Education is an independent, grassroots organisation founded in the UK and Greece in 2017. We develop and support projects that aim to remove the barriers to education for displaced communities. In early 2019, we launched a Youth Centre project on Samos as an emergency response to the desperate condition of refugees on the island – a critical bottleneck on the road of flight to Europe.
AFE pursues two main goals with this project:
First, we offer an essential safe space to the children and youth, in which they can rediscover a piece of childhood. Careful guidance in learning, playing and communal activities build resilience and develop peace-building mechanisms, an opportunity they are ill-afforded in the harsh, tense and frequently violent conditions in the camps.
Second, we help students develop language and concentration as well as motor and cognitive skills through curricula of English, languages and projects, which also stimulate imagination and let students and participants explore their own interests, old and new.
Location
Chios