Teaching Assistant

Tasks & Responsibilities:

TBD

Qualifications:

Adviser Permission Necessary; Three year language Track – Generally Advanced Standing; Our focus is on education at a very basic level. The majority of our volunteers work in the schools with young children. Nicaraguan schools have two sessions each day, half of the primary school students attend school in the morning, and the other half attends in the afternoon. The early grades attend school in the morning, starting at 7 am and the higher grades in the afternoon, starting at 12.30 or 1pm. A team of volunteers will work in each school where we are helping, assisted by a local intern. For all positions, we prefer that volunteers have at least an intermediate level of Spanish. We work in four or five government run public schools in the poorest barrios of Granada. We work in the schools with the permission of the Nicaraguan Ministry of Education.