WorldTeach is looking forward to partnering with the Asian University for Women to send volunteers to their newly-established university in Chittagong, Bangladesh. This innovative regional liberal arts university serves women from more than 12 Asian countries. A prime focus of AUW is to bring highly talented women from "poor, rural, and refugee" backgrounds first to their preparatory program called the Access Academy, and then to merge these students with direct admissions students for the university.
WorldTeach volunteers will serve as Teaching Assistants for the university as well as in their Teaching and Learning Center as support staff. In addition, the volunteers will lead extra-curricular activities at the university.
WorldTeach volunteers will serve three roles at AUW. They will teach one class to the Access Academy students in an area of their expertise. This content-based skills-building class is to teach reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills to students in preparation for their university study. A second role will be to serve as AUW ambassadors to the community, teaching English classes to various groups in Chittagong. Finally volunteers will serve as teaching assistants for one or two AUW academic classes. Volunteers will be encouraged to support the students from both the Access Academy and the University in extra-curricular activites.
Volunteers must be native English speakers and have a bacherlor's degree. Successful candidates must be mature, culturally sensitive, and exhibit an interest in women's education and in Asia.
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