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Phonic
workshops
Using milk bottle tops to
count - no longer just chanting numbers!
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We
are planning a nursery school
curriculum and hope to train and
support our teachers, by providing suitable voluntary
teachers and teaching assistants
as often as we can from members visiting Gambia on short term holidays
and with longer stays where volunteers come forward - assistance is
always welcomed to help us support our teachers.
The
Curriculum
The
GETSuk's curriculum focus is on correctly spoken English, with good
comprehension, well formed writing and competent reading, whilst in
Maths the aim is to foster an understanding of number value instead of
the usual chanting of numbers.
To
carry this out, our teachers must have the resources and delivery skills
to obtain what we are aiming to achieve.
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Teacher
Support
A
volunteer at work
in the classroom
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Volunteers
The
curriculum will be divided into teaching weeks so that volunteers can be
primed with the core teaching objectives for their time in a GETSuk
school.
Volunteers will spend some of their time preparing the relevant
resources and some of their time in the class rooms.
As
a charity we always welcome English speaking volunteers to attend our schools
as classroom assistants to help all of our teachers to improve their spoken
English, correcting their diction and pronounciation whilst extending their vocabularies.
Often
no previous teaching skills are needed for this BUT volunteers with
teaching practice are of great benefit in helping our teachers to produce
teaching support resources and showing how to use them in and out
of the classrooms.
More
information about volunteering
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