Teaching Assistant for Children

Help Ghana to overcome struggles in the school sector like overcrowded classes, lack of learning materials, teaching classrooms as well as lack of skilled teachers.

Support local teachers and work at Primary & Secondary schools, kindergartens or special needs schools.

As a volunteer your main focus is teaching English, and giving young students more confidence with speaking.

Volunteer can also teach subjects like mathematics or computer literacy, science, Arts or get involved with extracurricular activities.

A volunteer Teaching placement in Ghana gives you plenty of practical classroom experience, along with building your lesson planning skills.

Volunteer Roles & Responsibilities

• Work as teacher in the placement and assist the current teachers and staff.

• Bring interesting teaching materials, books, stationery, flashcards and games which can be helpful in teaching students in a play way method.

• Design a proper study module for the children to follow.

• Involve students in out–of–the–class activities to teach them the importance of physical activity

Typical day
Volunteer will Wake up in the host family’s house every morning, get dressed, and have breakfast in the kitchen area. Eat a plate of breads and spreads before grabbing your packed lunch and heading out the door. Jump into a tro-tro (mode of Transport) or shared taxi and make your way to the school. On your first day, Samba staff will accompany you to show you the way.

A typical day starts at 8am and finishes between 1- 3pm, with a half hour break around 10am and an hour lunch break at 12pm. Work is from Monday to Friday and have the weekends free to explore and relax.

Your day will be varied with regards to the subjects you teach. One-day participant may start with English and French classes, Science and others volunteer will be teaching IT and mathematics. Volunteer will assist the teachers with extracurricular lessons in the afternoons. Every lessons is between 30 minutes to an hour long, with some lessons being double periods.

When lessons are over, volunteer will have free time to prepare lessons for the next day. The teachers will be happy to assist you plan lessons, although your own new ideas will be welcomed.

Once you are done for the day, head home or grab a traditional Ghanaian meal from a restaurant or food stall with the other volunteers. Volunteer also have plenty of free time on the weekends, so organize a trip with other volunteers, or just relax and explore on your own