TEACHING ENGLISH IN TIBET

Rokpa provides information and support to qualified English teachers who want to teach English to Tibetans. We provide opportunities in the following places:-

1.   Yushu Tibetan Orphans Primary School, (Qinghai) (150 students aged 5 - 18)

2.   Yunnan. A university for monks and tulkus (male volunteers only)

3.   Lanzhou City, Gansu Province. This is a paid position at a language school

for Chinese minorities, including Tibetans.

All volunteers will:

• have completed a certificated course to Teach English as a Foreign Language and have experience teaching adults or primary school children or both.
• be prepared to teach at the project for nine months (minimum six months) usually starting in March.
• pay their own travel expenses to and from the school. (this can cost up to £1,000 from the UK)
• preferably have had some experience of living in a third world country.
• be over age 25

Volunteer teachers are provided with room and board while teaching.

Volunteers will be expected to teach approximately 18 hours per week, in classes of up to 50 students. These are usually mixed ability. There may be some additional, smaller adult classes and extra-curricular activities are encouraged.

Volunteers may also be required to obtain and forward information and photographs about different Rokpa projects in the area. Expenses for this can be reimbursed.

Interested candidates should send a CV with a brief letter saying why they are interested, to the volunteer co-ordinator,

Diana108@btopenworld.com with a copy to   charity@rokpaUK.org

Thereafter, potential candidates will be provided with more detailed information and may be invited for interview. The selection of volunteers rests ultimately with Dr Akong Tulku Rinpoche, Rokpa’s Founding President and main fieldworker in Tibet.  If it is impossible to meet him, he will take advice from one of Rokpa’s representatives, with whom we can arrange an interview.

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