The Project
Teach English to Communities in Krabi, Thailand

Teaching Experience

Participants have the opportunity to continue their teaching after the course by sharing the teaching of GVI English classes in the main community or other communities for a further four-weeks-worth of lessons to local students. This is more easily accomplished by volunteers who join for 10 weeks. Additionally, two course graduates are awarded internship positions on the project, including additional time teaching in the community and supporting current participants. Volunteer placements are available for qualified graduates to teach in remote communities in Thailand and around the world, and GVI offers a job placement service to all GVI TEFL graduates, which assists them in finding placements in local communities around the world or paid positions in the TEFL Industry. During the first two weeks, you will receive intensive training to develop the skills needed to become a teacher of English as a foreign language (TEFL), as well as developing your language skills within the local communities.

GVI's English Program

A unique aspect to this program is that TEFL course participants teach students who are involved in an existing English curriculum, made possible by the GVI TEFL courses themselves. The TEFL course enables adults in the community to take four-week English classes, and students can progress through levels after formal evaluations which take place at the end of each four-week class. Since the first term in July 2007, over 1,200 certificates have been awarded to students for attending English classes (85 percent attendance is required to receive a certificate). Each term an average of 75 students attend GVI classes, which offer 10 classes per term in six levels, covering Beginner to Pre-Intermediate English.