Tales from far, far, away...

As well as advising you on your job prospects for paid employment, ISIS Tefl can provide you with a variety of contacts in the Voluntary sector, all over the world. So, in January 2012, two of our trainees - Jon and Georgie, decided to make their first step into teaching an adventurous one!

Here is a little bit about their experience in the rainforests of Ecuador (written by their School Principal):

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Week 1 -Jon and Georgie are very nice and seem to be getting on really well.  We have agreed that one will teach colegio (secondary school age children) and the other the younger years and adults.  One has already started teaching the young adults and the other  will start on Monday as he was shadowing another teacher in the school this week in order to take over.

Week 3 -Everything is fine here and the teachers are doing really well with everything. They had their first community party yesterday for the inauguration of the new classrooms.  The vice alcalde and the junta parrochial (local school council people) and some other senores (general school inspectors and other teachers) came and there was chicha (a local often alcoholic drink) for everyone (except the teachers of course!) and music and dancing etc.  It was a good opportunity for them to get to meet and know the community better ( the  indigenous Kichwa people).  The children are being so much more sociable these days and they are responding very well to teachers.  So lovely to see them playing and chatting with the new teachers rather than just staring and running away like they used to!  The little ones are becoming confident too.  Really lovely.

We are hoping to carry on with a story hour with the little ones although its was hard to get them to concentrate. We are trying to encourage the local teacher to do dance classes with them every week and the older school children too because she is great at that.

This week one of the teachers went to Pompeya (a trading market nearby ) with some community members (by canoe up river)  and the other teacher stayed behind to plan lessons look through the adult syllabuses for next week.

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So - good luck Jon and Georgie :) 

ISIS Tefl hope to hear from you soon!!