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The teaching centre is looking for two enthusiastic and committed person to join the team as interns. This is a voluntary, unpaid activity, which starts immediately and runs for the academic year (until 22 June), with the possibility of extension. The interns are being recruited to be teaching assistants but may occasionally be invited to help Teaching Centre staff with other tasks too.
Available posts:
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two “full-time” interns: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m., Wednesdays and Fridays 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. |
Duties:
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to assist teachers in a wide variety of ways in classes with 5-10 year old children, both on our premises and off-site |
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to substitute for other teaching assistants when they are absent |
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to assist with very occasional Teaching Centre admin tasks |
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to assist with very occasional Teaching Centre events. |
Advantages:
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exposure to a wide range of modern teaching techniques |
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improved English through daily use |
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experience in a fun and lively multi-cultural working environment |
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letter of reference (dependent on satisfactory performance and completion) |
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library membership. |
Essentials:
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must enjoy working with children and be considering doing so in the future |
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must be friendly and have good inter-personal skills with all ages and types of people |
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ability to be judge when to be proactive and when to follow someone else’s lead |
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ability to learn and adapt to various situations and styles/approaches of different people |
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ability to be flexible yet very committed to a schedule |
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Romanian C2 and English C1 or C2 user. |
Desirables:
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studied or studying a degree connected with teaching or languages |
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experience with teaching or working with children |
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experience working with people (children or adults) with learning difficulties . |
Application task:
Please answer these three questions (200 words each max) in English only.
1. Why do you want to be a teaching assistant at the British Council and why do you think you’d make a good teaching assistant? Please feel free to refer to the essentials and desirables above.
2. Imagine the teacher was in the middle of giving instructions to the whole class and a student (aged 5) wasn’t paying attention. How could you deal with the situation, as the teaching assistant, bearing in mind that you don’t want to take the other kids’ attention away from the teacher?
3. As a teaching assistant, how could you try to encourage a class of 16 elementary-level (between one and two years of English) students, aged 7-9, to try to make the classroom an English-only environment?
Please send us your CV (English only) and the answers to the above questions (English only), to rachael.daniels@britishcouncil.ro with “Bucharest Teaching Assistant Internship Surname/ First name” as the subject line, by 22 February. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted and should be available to come for an interview on 23 or 24 February.
Thank you for your interest!
British Council Romania
14 Calea Dorobantilor
0105725 Bucharest
T +40 (21) 307 9600
F +40 (21) 307 9601
www.britishcouncil.ro
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