Articles tagged ‘Non Profit Organizations’
Innovative Language Learning Center In The US
By Katie | July 27th, 2007 |
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Wayne Parks is a veteran firefighter from Fairfield, Connecticut…but not a typical one. Why? He recently segued into running a non-profit language learning center, primarily because he noticed that in his original field of work – construction – there was a dearth of qualified native English speaking workers but an abundance of qualified [...]
An Innovative Volunteer Off To Guatemala For Two Years To Teach English
By Katie | April 28th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Madeleine Andersen, a graduate of Brown University, will be spending two and a half years in Guatemala, involved in an English-language instruction program at a school run by women’s cooperative Unidas Para Vivir Mejor (“United To Live Better”) outside of Guatemala City. She came across the organization during a previous trip to Guatemala and [...]
TEFL Logue Review: Travel To Teach
By Katie | February 4th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Due to popular demand (well, due to a nice request as a comment on this post), the TEFL Logue has visited the website of Travel to Teach in order to profile it.
Travel to Teach provides, in their own words “something between tourism, backpacking and volunteer work.” Participants choose a country (Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Cambodia, [...]
Interview With Christine Kenny, Non-Profit ESL Teacher In Chicago
By Katie | January 14th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Christine Kenny, Executive Director of Chicago-based Literacy Works, was kind enough to share some of her thoughts on and experiences in both EFL and ESL via an email interview. She taught briefly in Spain before becoming further involved in ESL (and then with Literacy Works) in Chicago.
She describes her first experience as a volunteer [...]
Teach In Puerto Rico With Sapientis
By Katie | December 8th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Sapientis is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of public education in Puerto Rico by training outstanding university graduates and existing teachers in leadership and matching them to two-year placements in public schools. According to statistics on the Sapientis site, 52% of PR’s public school students are “not proficient in Spanish” [...]
