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Full Day Teaching English and Nature Trail Development
(VWB 104)
Description: Assist in teaching English in a rural Thai school in the morning, and spend the afternoon working with villagers on the development of the Pang Soong Nature Trails.
Duration: One day. (app 2 hours teaching, and 2-3 hrs trail work).
Meal Code: Lunch (Picnic box)
Introduction – Morning activity:
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.
Introduction – afternoon activity:
As part of Track of the Tiger’s VWB Initiative, voluntourists are assisting the villagers of Ban Pang Mano to develop the Pang Soong Nature Trails into a world class ecotourism product with appeal to numerous niche markets; ecotourism, education, corporate team building and adventure racing. In addition, the trails are being developed as an axis along which scientific study is conducted, and NTFP (non timber forest products) are farmed in a low intensive manner – all with the aim of alleviating poverty and protecting the forest habitat.
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. Lunch with the teachers and students.
1230 hrs. Say your good-byes, take some photographs of yourself with the teachers and children, then depart for the Pang Soong Lodge, Outdoor Education & Research Centre some 20 or minutes away.
1300 hrs. Arrive at Pang Soong Lodge, Outdoor Education & Research Centre.
1330 hrs. Change into your outdoor work clothes, receive your gloves, tools and drinking water, and set off along the trail, accompanied by your English speaking guide (or interpreter), and led by a community forest guide to join your village co-workers (who have been on the project since the morning)
Arriving on site, you meet your co-workers, there will be a minimum of 2 villagers, but otherwise one co-worker per voluntourist, and join them in completing the task allocated to the group for that day.
1530 - 1600 hrs. - Cease work, and prepare to return down the trail to the Lodge.
Note* Depending on where you are working along the trail, participants will be given the option of exploring the rest of the 4km trail with the community forest guide before returning to the city.
On retuning to the Lodge, you are served with tea or coffee, and may also opt to visit the nearby village of Ban Pang Mano – as guests of the headman, to see how your hosts live.
1700 hrs. Reboard the transport for a return trip to the city.
1800 hrs. Arrive back at your hotel – after a fascinating but tiring day.
| # persons | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| price (in THB) | 5,170 | 3,370 | 2,770 | 2,470 | 2,290 | 2,170 | 2,100 | 2,020 |
| 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 both sites @ Baht 2’000.- per vehicle (9 seats) per day.
• English speaking guide/ interpreter @ Baht 1’000.- per day.
• Community forest guide fee @ Baht 200.- per group/per day.
• Day rate for village co-worker. Baht 200.- per person/per day (minimum 2 workers)
• Contribution for tools and trail project materials (bamboo, wood, cement etc.) – Baht 500.- per person/day.
• Picnic lunch – Baht 150.- per person/day.
• *VWB Onsite Liaison Team – Baht 500.- per person/per day.
• Tour agent or placement agency booking fee @ Baht 400 per person/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:
• Meals – other than those stated in the itinerary.
• Water – free bottle refills are available at the school or Pang Soong Lodge.
• Donations – (see below).
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.
Or for:
• Village labour wages for regular maintenance or research related work required when voluntourists are not on site.
• Funding to cover major item costs like, the Pelton wheel hydroelectric project, greenhouse construction, or purchase of seeds/saplings during Feb/March/April annually – to support the biodiversity augmentation and NTFP (non-timber forest product) farming projects.
Pang Soong Nature Trails
Northern Thailand Map
Volunteer Handbook