World Teach Program

• Year program,
- Tanzania: mid June 2014 until end of May 2015
- Namibia: end of December 2014 until early December 2015
• Stipends, housing, visas, insurance, training, support, provided.
• Cost: $3,990

WorldTeach provides opportunities for college graduates to live and teach abroad in 11 month programs in 13 developing and middle-income countries. Our two Africa year programs are in Tanzania and Namibia. In both countries we partner with their Ministries of Education to teach in public schools throughout the country.
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This is a very solid program. The precursor was founded at Harvard in 1961, and then opened to all students as WorldTeach in 1986. Professor Michael Kremer of Harvard is the founder, and today is the chair of the Board. Several years ago New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof gave us a shout-out as he promoted the importance of young Americans living and working abroad for a year. (see http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/opinion/11kristof.html)

WorldTeach seeks volunteers for the Africa programs who:
• Are college graduates (any major)
• Are serious about teaching well for the year with WorldTeach (note: volunteers do not need to have any teacher training or any career objective for teaching)
• Have exhibited interest in Africa and developing countries in general
• Are interested in gaining cross cultural skills (e.g., learning languages and culture, understanding how a developing country functions)

Program components include:
• Volunteers teach full-time as classroom teachers teaching English, and sometimes math/science
• Partners are the
- Tanzanian Ministry of Education and Vocational Training
- Namibian Ministry of Education
• Students teach in elementary, middle, and high schools in mainly rural towns
• Stipends paid monthly
• Housing provided with host families or in teacher apartments at the schools
• Visas and work permits provided
• Health & emergency evacuation insurance provided
• Orientation training given (3-4 weeks in-country, including language, teacher training, history/culture, health & safety, cultural adjustment, etc.)
• TEFL certification optional if teaching English as a Foreign Language
• Full time in-country field staff for training, oversight, and support
• Education coordinator in US office for each program as a resource for teaching quality
• Student loans can generally be deferred
• Program originated at Harvard College (25 yrs), then associated with Harvard (26 years), now an independent NGO
• Cost to volunteer: $3,990 plus the cost of the airfare.

More information and application online at www.worldteach.org.

For more information call 857-259-6646, or write [email protected].

Mailing Address:
WorldTeach
One Brattle Square
Suite 550
Cambridge, MA 02138
US