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2 Day Teaching English and Nature Trail Development
VWB 201
Description: One day as an assistant teaching English in a rural Thai school, overnight at Pang Soong Lodge, Outdoor Education & Research Centre, and one day spent working on the Pang Soong Nature Trails project.
Duration: 2 days.
Accommodation: Male only, female only or mixed - dormitory style accommodation options at Pang Soong Lodge, Outdoor Education & Research Centre.
Meal Code: Lunch, Dinner on day 1, Breakfast & Lunch on day 2.
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 /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 / interpreter) is there to assist wherever you want him or her to do so.
1130 hrs. 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 Pang Soong lodge, Outdoor Education & Research Centre some 20 minutes further up into the mountains.
1500 hrs. You arrive at the Lodge, check in, and relax – perhaps exploring the nearby village of Ban Pang Mano with your guide/interpreter, or opting for a walk up the main Pang Soong Nature Trail to the first big waterfall (60-90 minutes) there and back.
1800 hrs. – You are briefed on tomorrow’s nature trail related task by the project manager.
1830 hrs. Dinner – a set Thai meal, followed by time around the campfire – often joined by the village headman and others as keen to know about you, as your are about them and their project.
Retire to bed at your leisure.
Day 2.
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.
0700 hrs. Breakfast served in the open air restaurant overlooking the pond.
0800 hrs. You meet your co-workers, and are provided with gloves, tools and drinking water. There will be a minimum of 2 villagers, but otherwise one co-worker per voluntourist.
You and your co-workers set off along the nature trail to the task area, accompanied by your guide/interpreter and led by a community forest guide, and commence the work allocated to the group for that day.
1130 hrs. Break for lunch with the workforce.
1230 hrs. Either return to work with your co-workers, assuming you did not explore the length of the main trail the day before, do so at your leisure, escorted by your guides, before returning back down the trail to Pang Soong Lodge, Outdoor Education & Research Centre, wash up, return your work tools.
Note* Your village co-workers, paid for the day, will continue the work until 1700 hrs.
1600 hrs. Or thereabouts, depart Pang Soong Lodge, Outdoor Education & Research Centre and return down into the Chiang Mai valley, to the city beyond.
1700 hrs. Check into your hotel.
| # persons | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| price (in THB) | 11,240 | 7,640 | 6,440 | 5,840 | 5,480 | 5,240 | 5,100 | 5,000 |
| 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 group/per day.
• Community guide fee @ Baht 200.- per group/one day
• Accommodation (bunk bed) at Pang Soong Lodge, Outdoor Education & Research Centre @ Baht 500.- per person/night.
• Meals – Lunch & Dinner on day 1, Breakfast & Lunch on day 2. = Baht 700.- per person.
• Day rate for village co-worker @ Baht 200.- per worker (minimum 2 workers) for one day.
• Contribution for tools and trail project materials (bamboo, wood, cement etc.) @ Baht 500.- per person/for one 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