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1 Day Teaching English
(VWB 102)
Description: Assist in teaching English in a rural Thai school.
Duration: One day. (app 4-5 hours teaching)
Meal Code: Lunch – Picnic box.
Introduction:
As part of Track of the Tiger’s VWB Initiative, aimed at assisting the rural Thai villagers establish their own ecotourism product, we need to teach good basic English and other business skills to the children who will most likely become the managers of their community tourism project. There are 4 schools (some 1000 plus) students in the catchment area that are eager for your help.
Note* Given two weeks advance notice your arrival date, we will be able to provide you with (a) your teaching schedule, (b) the lesson objectives, and (c) suggestions for lesson plans and the materials you might consider using to support them.
Itinerary:
0700 hrs. You are collected from your hotel in the city by an English speaking guide (or interpreter), and transported by minibus to the designated school – 45 minutes from the city, at the base of the hills that separate the Chiang Mai and Lampang valleys.
0800 hrs. Meet the headmaster or the senior English language teacher, and take a brief tour of the school facilities.
0830 hrs. Meet the class teacher whom you will be assisting for your first lesson, and go through your lesson plan with him or her. You will actually conduct the lesson under the Thai teacher’s guidance, whilst the teacher and your guide keep discipline in the class, and assist with translation as and where needed.
The morning continues in this manner, with you going through your lesson plan with a teacher, and then delivering it to a given class. Your guide (or interpreter) is there to assist wherever you want him or her to do so.
1130 hrs. Take lunch with the teachers and students.
1230 hrs. Continue your teaching role, either in the same school, or another school close by – as dictated by the programme coordinator.
1430 hrs. Say your good-byes, take some photographs of yourself with the teachers and children, then depart for the city.
1530 hrs. You arrive back at your hotel – probably more exhausted that you would normally be from a full day at work.
| # persons | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| price (in THB) | 4,070 | 2,570 | 2,070 | 1,820 | 1,670 | 1,570 | 1,500 | 1,455 |
| for more information go to our pricing policy page / prices valid until oct. 31st 2009 | ||||||||
What is included in the price:
• Transport to and from the school @ Baht 2’000 per vehicle (9 seats) per day.
• English speaking guide or interpreter @ Baht 1’000.- per group / per day.
• Picnic lunch box @ 150.- per person/per day.
• *VWB Onsite Liaison Team – Baht 500.- per person/per day.
• Tour agent or placement agency booking fee @ Baht 400 per person/per day.
• Track of the Tiger (project development partner) – no fee.
• Standard Thai tourism insurance cover @ Baht 20.- per person/day.
What is not included in the price:
• Material used in lesson your lesson plans.
• Meals – other than those stated in the itinerary.
• Water – free bottle refills are available at the school or Pang Soong Lodge.
• Donations – (see below).
*VWB Onsite Liaison Team – Normally one full time foreign project manager, (environmental background) plus two Thai assistants, tasked with: Looking after the needs of the volunteers / voluntourists, planning the work to be undertaken, recording job progress and scientific research detail, communicating with the village committee, training the community forest guides, ensuring work continuity when we do not have assistance from volunteers/voluntourists.
Donations: It is customary, but not mandatory for voluntourists to make a donation to the VWB Initiative development fund. This fund covers such things as:
• Classroom materials – text books, notebooks, paper, pencils, crayons etc.
• Small construction projects – toilet blocks, dishwashing areas, classrooms – normally constructed with the help of visiting schools.
• Computer class project – aimed at equipping those children who are interested with the skills to undertake a village outsourcing work centre – accepting basic data entry work from Bangkok based companies.
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