ABC SCHOOL - Granada, Nicaragua Volunteer positions
EFL and ESL Teaching Positions, ABC School, Granada, Nicaragua: Immediate openings. More openings throughout the year.
Benefits: These are volunteer positions. We contribute $200US/month towards your living expenses if you teach 20 classroom hours a week.
• New computers with high-speed Internet and laser printer available at the school. • Average class size is 7 students. Maximum class size is 15.
Qualifications and Experience: • Native English speakers. We teach with an emphasis on North American English. • Spanish instruction is available. • 3 month minimum commitment.
ABC School General Information: • We currently have 6 classrooms and 500 students. • Our mission is to provide Granadinos with skills to compete in the tourism job market, and to own/operate their own businesses. • Our teachers love teaching and are enthused about improving the educational and employment opportunities for the people of Granada. • We provide excellent teaching materials. We have CD players, TV, DVD/VCR player, white boards, new student desks, and a very clean, well-maintained, freshly painted building. The building is not air-conditioned. • Our school is clean, friendly, supportive, and filled with motivated, interesting, appreciative Granadinos who are eager to learn English. Most of our students are age 16 to 50. We have 150 students age 6 to 12. • We teach one-hour classes of conversational ESL - EFL from 2pm-9pm, M-F. New classes start every month. We have three hour classes on Saturdays. We teach 12 months a year. ABC SCHOOL also offers spanish classes for foreigners as well as tours.• The average length of EFL, ESL teaching experience by our Granadinos teachers is over seven years. • Most of our native speaking EFL teachers have several years of EFL teaching. Most of them have a TEFL or equivalent certification. We occasionally have EFL experts who visit us for a month, to advise the school and mentor our teachers.
ABC School Accreditation: ABC School received accreditation from INATEC, the Nicaraguan government’s educational agency overseeing technical and vocational training.
Businesses and universities recognize the INATEC English certificate when making hiring, promotion and enrollment decisions. ABC School is a legal, non-taxed, educational company recognized by the Nicaraguan government. We have a Granada city business license and pay city taxes.
ABC School is located 5 ½ blocks west of the Central Square. You can walk to anywhere in town.
Granada is the oldest colonial city in the Americas. The people of Nicaragua are friendlier and they are proud of their 500 year history in Granada. The government and economy have been stable since 1990, when the civil war ended. The country is peaceful and Nicaraguans are looking for a place in the world economy.
The owner (a native Granadino) of ABC School, is passionate about providing Granadinos with a means to compete in a growing tourist industry and a global economy. We are a school run in a professional way.
Thank you for your interest. I am happy to answer any questions related to ESL - EFL teaching at ABC School. We look forward to hearing from you.
Applications: Please send a brief email describing your interest in teaching EFL in Granada, and how well you meet the qualifications listed above. Resumes, C.V.’s, or a brief summary of your EFL teaching/work/education/travel experience are welcome.
We gladly accept walk-in applicants. We are flexible with our application requirements if we observe an applicant doing well using EFL methodologies in our classrooms.
Thank you.
Marlon Gutiérrez - ABC School - Granada, Nicaragua Phone: 552 - 0812
marlonabc@hotmail.com
abc@cablenet.com.ni