My Volunteer Placement: Teaching English

I received my placement information for Morocco! This is going to be quite a different experience from Tanzania. For one, I will be staying in the city (in Tanzania we were in a rural area). Also, it looks like I will be working with adults who speak some English already. I am keeping an open mind and heart...

Here it is verbatim from CCS:

Teaching Conversational English at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco

Mission and Needs of the Partner Program
Mohammed V University is a Moroccan university which was founded in 1957. It was split in 1997 to become 2 independent universities, Mohammed V University at Agdal and Mohammed V University at Soussi.

Volunteer Activities / Duties
• Support Masters and PhD students in improving their English speaking and comprehension skills
• Engage in discussion and exchange ideas on issues such as culture, music, movies, daily life in your home country, etc.
• Teach specific vocabulary and pronounciation – especially colloquial phrases and idioms
• Teach comprehension through reading articles and engaging in discussion to give them opportunities to speak English in the class
• Teach grammar points like prepositions, and verb tenses
• Correct articles written in English
• Answer questions about your home country and culture

Goals for the Volunteer from the Partner Program
Long-Term: Improve the English-speaking ability and comprehension of the students through discussion and cultural exchange.
Short-Term: The volunteers teach students from the Chemistry Department conversational English and help them improve their comprehension and English-speaking abilities, as well as learning grammar points to help them be
understood. There is a wonderful exchange of cross-cultural information and conversation.