Teaching Assistant Internship

  Costa Rica

• Monteverde: 
Monteverde

Term: Academic Year, Fall, Spring 
Dates: July-December, Jan-March (3 months minimum, extensions possible)

Description: Interns at the Cloud Forest School work full time as teaching assistants in a classroom alongside a mentor teacher. Interns help with all aspects of the classroom, including preparation, management, planning and teaching lessons, and leading small groups or working one-on-one with students. Interns may work in grades ranging from 1st/2nd (mixed) to 6th grade with a homeroom teacher, or in a subject-specific academic classroom in the high school. We also welcome interns for our Special Education and Environmental Education programs. Interns are encouraged to begin in July or January, and are required to commit for at least 3 months.

Interns live in homestays with local families and have Spanish classes and professional development workshops after school to help them improve their Spanish and integrate fully into the rural community of Monteverde.

The Cloud Forest School is a progressive, private K-11 school. We educate 225 children, over 75% of whom receive significant scholarship in order to attend our school. Our student body is 90%+ local. We focus on bi-lingual and environmental education.

Highlights: Work in the beautifully forested community of Monteverde! We're located a mile high in the Tilaran Mountains of Costa Rica, in the cloud forest. Our school is a great work environment! Homestay and Spanish classes to help you improve your language skills. Excursions and workshops to help you learn more about our school, Tico culture and the unique community of Monteverde.

Qualifications: Interns must be at least 18 years old and High School graduates. Interns must be native English speakers.

Interns must be able to stay for at least 3 months, although they are encouraged to stay for longer if possible! Experience working with children is required. Teaching experience is not required. Spoken Spanish is helpful, but not required.

Cost in US$: USD 900 fall 2009 internship, USD 990 spring 2010 internship (3 months, does not include homestay)

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Costa Rica Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Letters of Reference
• Other
• Resume
• Written Application

Cloud Forest School's Mission Statement: Our mission is to nurture generations of ecologically aware, academically well-rounded bilingual individuals. We will work to provide students with the knowledge, values and skills needed to make environmentally and socially conscious decisions on a local, national and global scale. Our vision is a sustainable future for the Earth through educating individuals to love, respect and protect the natural environment, to strive for justice and peace as well as academic excellence and to work towards conserving biodiversity and enriching community life.

Year Founded: 1991