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Primary education

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primary education in Senegal

You will work in primary school with 494 students, which consists of 12 classes:

Primary section (2x CI/Integration lessons): 6 years (for children who have not attended pre-primary education)

Preparation classes (2x CP/Cours Préparatoire) : 7 years

Elementary lessons 1st year (2x CE1/Cours Elementaire) : 8 years

Elementary classes 2nd year (2xC.E.2/Cours élémentaires 2ième annee) : 9 years

Secondary lessons first year (2xC.M.1/Cours Moyen 1ère annee) : 10 years

Secondary lessons second year (2xC.M.2/Cours Moyen 2ième annee) : 11 years

What are your duties?

  • Volunteers help lesplannand develop in line with curriculum objectives for subjects including Mathematics, Languages, History, Geography and World Orientation.
  • They use the content of their learning experience and encourage greater understanding of the topics the children are interested in. Volunteers also contribute to school events and communicate with experienced colleagues and the school management.
  • Personal and creative ideas are appreciated. As a volunteer you propose solutions and quality recommendations. Support and ideas for innovation and improvement are encouraged. The volunteers are sufficiently informed and supervised by the management and the competent teachers.

Conditions of Participation

  • Volunteers should be interested and able to support local teachers in the education of children between 6 and 11 years of age.
  • Understanding and realizing that a better future for Senegalese society lies in education and training. To be able to sense, assist and improve the education of children from poor families.
  • A good to advanced knowledge of French is necessary.

schedule

Ongoing but please note that during the rainy season July, August, September and the holidays (Christmas and Easter holidays) there are no class activities. During this period we need fewer volunteers, but there are regular tasks that need to be performed. You will learn more about this during the application for your volunteer work.

The volunteers follow the timetable of the lessons. School time runs every day from 8.00:16.00 am to XNUMX:XNUMX pm. Wednesday afternoon and weekend you are free.

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