Teach & travel in Thailand for qualified teachers

This is a summer break for qualified teachers which incorporates 2 weeks of teaching followed by 2 weeks of travelling.  The four week package starts in Surin, Northeast Thailand, teaching English to children in poor schools. Thai children are polite and keen to learn. You will have a lot of fun as well as sharing your professional skills and enhancing their learning. Classes are generally bigger in size than back at home and there are less facilities and teaching aids such as computer suites, books or electronic boards. However all the children are a delight to teach and eager to learn English.

You’ll be teaching various year groups of primary school children in one school and will be responsible for constructing lessons throughout your stay, although we do have plenty of novel ideas left from previous volunteers. Teachers may also help organise and lead English camps for primary and secondary school aged children, during their summer holidays. These camps run over the holidays and are staffed by teachers and volunteers.

In Surin we rent private houses for our volunteers. These houses have hot water and electricity plus a self catering kitchen if you want to cook for yourself. You will share with fellow volunteers so you’ll have some company if there is anyone else volunteering at the same time as you and you’ll be close to shops, restaurants and bars. We also provide bicycles for our volunteers as there is quite a lot to explore outside of the town centre too in the country – picturesque traditional silk villages, rice paddy fields, water buffalo, friendly children and locals.

For the two weeks travel you will spend time at Khao Yai national park trekking and exploring, visit ancient ruins in Northeast Thailand similar to those at Angkor in Cambodia, have that all important beach time and have a few days in magnificent Bangkok for shopping and sightseeing. During your volunteer placement there are several local trips you can organise. Surin is surrounded by a number of handicraft villages, from silk weaving through to jewellery making. There is also Surin’s elephant village where you can learn the traditional skills of the Mahout. Generally volunteer teachers work five days a week for six hours a day