Secondary Education English Teacher
Peace Corps
- Costa Rica
- Permanente
- Tiempo completo
- Increase teachers' general and English teaching skills.
- Enhance teachers' equitable and inclusive practices in the classroom.
- Improve the English proficiency of English teachers.
- Boost students' achievement in English.
- Strengthen the ability of community members to support students' access to learning.
- Work full-time under a structured schedule with teachers and secondary students aged 12-17 within a school population of 100 to 1200 students.
- Assist school counterparts in organizing teaching schedules for co-planning and co-teaching English lessons.
- Overcome challenges, including geographic, climatic, cultural, and socio-economic factors, to integrate fully into rural, under-resourced communities.
- Adapt to Peace Corps and counterparts' norms and procedures during training, meetings, recreational activities, and teaching in formal and informal classroom settings.
- Experience teaching or tutoring English, a foreign language, or literacy.
- Experience conducting curricular or extracurricular activities with youths or adults.
- Experience with current fundamental computer skills.
- Experience with e-learning platform management.
- Experience with community organizing.
- Experience (professional or academic) in any of the following areas: Accounting, Finance, Education, Logistics, Electronics, Auto mechanics, Hospitality, Gastronomy, Agriculture, Drawing and Design, Secretarial Management, Customer Service, Computer Science, Environmental Science.
B. Completed minimum 2 semesters of Spanish college-level coursework within the past 6 years
C. Native/fluent speaker of SpanishCandidates who do not meet the language proficiency levels above can take the language placement exams to demonstrate their level of proficiency. Competitive applicants typically attain a score of 50 on the Spanish College Level Examination Program CLEP exam or a score of Novice-High on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL OPI).Total Number of Positions Available30Assignment Length (months)24Accepting Applications?YesProgramPCVTEFL certificate programNoPost to LinkedIn?No