Do you…
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Speak English fluently and confidently?
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Enjoy interacting with children?
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Want to improve the education and general welfare of disadvantaged children?
Join Stepping Stones to create a better future for migrant and disadvantaged children in Shanghai. Along the way, you’ll meet like-minded volunteers from around the world and discover your inner talent for teaching and mentoring! Volunteers from all backgrounds are welcome!
English is one of the three core subjects in the Chinese curriculum and it is the one that poses the most challenges to rural and migrant children. Stepping Stones is now recruiting enthusiastic volunteers to join its Shanghai English Teaching Program to teach English to migrant and disadvantaged children in Shanghai.
Stepping Stones will provide an online orientation and a training session on Sept. 24th and/or 25th which will cover information on migrant children and their education, lesson plans, teaching tips and classroom management techniques.
Key Program Information:
- Around 8-15 students per class at community centers; around 30 to 48 students per class at schools
- Fall semester: September 2022 – January 2023
- Classes take place once a week on weekends or weekdays
- 1 to 1.5 hours per lesson
- Lesson plans are provided
- Team up with at least one volunteer to teach (generally class is split into small groups, and each group is led by one volunteer)
- Minimum volunteer age: 18 years old (volunteers who are 16 years old and above will be considered with parental consent)
Minimum Volunteering Commitment:
Once a week with a minimum of 12 lessons taught.
About Stepping Stones
Stepping Stones China is a not-for-profit charitable organisation registered in Shanghai with a mission to improve the education and general welfare of disadvantaged children in China. Stepping Stones currently recruits, trains, coordinates, and supports hundreds of volunteers to teach thousands of students in more than 30 migrant schools and community centers in Shanghai and Zhejiang Province. Over the years, our program has expanded to English teaching via Videolink, Home Classroom, teacher training and teachers’ English Corner. We also provide computer classes and eye care provisions (free eye tests, treatment, spectacles and eye operations) for migrant and left-behind children in Shanghai and rural China.
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