Teaching English with Opportunity Foundation

This is a volunteer position special enough to receive separate attention.

After a basic education, the most important thing for our children and staff to learn is knowledge of the primary international language: English! Everyone in this part of the world wants to learn English, and many need to do so for their education, jobs or social communications. In India your social and economic class is pretty much determined by how you speak and understand English. Opportunity Foundation especially welcomes you when you come to teach our children, and our teachers, English. A western "American or English" accent (or should we say lack thereof?) is what works best.

At this time English teaching volunteers from mature high school age on up are welcome. It is helpful, but not required, to have a TEFL or ESL certificate. There are numerous sources of this education. Two or four week (50 or 100 hour) courses, which are available all over the world, and can make you more effective teacher not to mention put you more at ease as you plunge into your first teaching experience.

Another way to teach is just to read a story. This works from nursery school on up. Simple stories with a lot of repetition for the youngest children to the more advanced grade school level books. These are all in our school library. If you have books your young children once enjoyed, bring them with you!

We welcome volunteer stays for English teaching anywhere from two weeks to a year or longer.