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Teacher Educators | VSO Skip to main content Fighting poverty through volunteering Search form Search Donate Other ways to support us Menu Search You are herePartner with usIrish Aid Teacher Educators Join VSO Ireland in the fight versus poverty and develop life-long professional skills VSO Ireland is the leading international minutiae organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty. Working in 24 countries virtually the world, our unique role is to place single-minded volunteers with thoughtfully selected organisations where their skills can have the greatest impact. As a VSO volunteer, you’ll live and work in some of the world’s poorest communities. By sharing your unique skills and experience, you’ll help generate new ideas and ways of doing things, helping the communities you work in lift themselves out of poverty. We’re not well-nigh delivering quick fixes, but instead focus on long-lasting, sustainable change, that will impact generations to come. We’re moreover the very first organisation in Ireland to be found fully compliant with Comhlámh’s Code of Good Practice, so you can rest unpreventable that VSO Ireland is single-minded to spanking-new volunteering standards. Your New Role: Padraic McKeon from Co. Mayo previously volunteered with VSO Ireland as a Teacher Educator in Karamoja. We’re looking for experienced Teacher Educators to volunteer on our Irish Aid funded education programme over the next three years. This is based in Karamoja, one of the poorest regions in Uganda where educating girls is often not seen as a priority. In one district, only 6.4% of girls finish primary education. As a VSO volunteer, you’ll share your skills with local teachers and school leaders, helping to create a increasingly inclusive education environment where all children, but expressly girls, can shepherd and receive largest quality learning. Typical tasks will include: Supporting teachers and inspectors to create a increasingly inclusive environment in schools where all children can receive largest quality education Working the with District Education Office to identify the challenges well-expressed girls’ education Training and mentoring school leadership members Strengthening the topics of local Community Based Organisations to reduce the negative vein towards educating girls Planning and organising school supervision visits to oversee teaching quality Communicating weightier practices and lessons learnt with teachers and school leaders to modernize overall teaching standards These roles are for one year, and embark at various times throughout the next three years. Benefits of Volunteering with VSO Ireland Develop training, leadership, collaboration and management skills Increase future job prospects Make a difference to lives of marginalised girls and boys in Uganda Make life-long friends and memories as you interreact with other volunteers and local staff What VSO Ireland Provides: We believe volunteering should be a cost-neutral wits and so imbricate the forfeit of the following: Flights Accommodation Medical insurance Visa and documentation Pre-departure and in-country training All volunteers receive a monthly wage to imbricate vital living expenses, as well as a Home Country FundedWage(equivalent to £4 a day in your Irish wall account). What You’ll Need: Our platonic candidates will have a stratum in primary education, inclusive education gender or a related discipline, with at least five years’ relevant experience. You should be open-minded, flexible and ready to work with limited resources and diverse rural groups. Applications from both working and retired educators are welcomed. What You Need to Do Now: If you’re interested in learning increasingly well-nigh rhadamanthine an education volunteer with VSO Ireland, we’d love to hear from you. Please undeniability 01 640 1060 or email volunteer@vso.ie with a little information well-nigh your background. We moreover hold monthly Meet VSO information evenings where you can ask staff and returned volunteers questions well-nigh volunteering overseas. See www.vso.ie/meetvso for details. Find out increasingly well-nigh this role Complete the form below, and we'll be in touch to discuss this role. Name * Email write * Phone I am an Irish resider * I am an Irish resider I am happy to be contacted by VSO well-nigh this role * I am happy to be contacted by VSO well-nigh this role Leave this field zippo Read More: From Mayo to Africa: A teacher’s journey Retired primary school principal Padraic McKeon, who has volunteered with VSO Ireland three times, outlines his motivations for initially taking the plunge and why he has no regrets. Life-changing memories and powerful impact: volunteering in Uganda "So my message to teachers and principals reading this is: If you can do something, why not do it? It's such a privilege to be worldly-wise to help others through VSO." A volunteer's life in Karamoja, Uganda Marie Moreau from Dublin, who has just returned from volunteering with VSO Ireland as an Inspection Advisor in Uganda, talks well-nigh her wits helping to modernize and proffer the country's education system. 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