Service Learning
Teach on the Beach Service Learning offers high school students and undergraduates an international experience and an opportunity to apply classroom instruction in the real world.
Students with diverse coursework, majors, and schools have already served with Teach on the Beach. Our After School and NewsHour programming is focused on teaching, but the subject, location and method of teaching is flexible and can be used creatively to apply a wide range of coursework – from literature to math, science to social studies, economics to social work.
Teach on the Beach is a national partner of the Bonner Foundation, a leading service learning institution providing service scholarships to undergraduates at 80 campuses nationwide. All TOB Service Learning volunteers benefit for the Bonner Foundations 20 years of experience and expertise in this field.
Benefits of TOB Service Learning Placements
- Unparalleled flexibility – you choose the dates, length, and focus area of your service learning experience
- Framework & Structure - we have been living, working and teaching in Ghana for years and have created a productive environment free of distraction.
- In-country American staff support - you will have an experienced TOB staffer with you at all times to help you implement your great ideas
- Resources - our facilities are spacious, filled with books, computers, art supplies, musical instruments, and most importantly students who desperately want to learn
- Authentic international experience - we don't sugarcoat the problems or segregate ourselves from the people in the community. "I am Ghanaian and they are American" Aaron Adler, our founder, often says. You will live and breathe the real Ghana with us.
- Affordable! - international service often comes with a big price tag. With Teach on the Beach, accommodations, meals, and full time, on-site American staff support is $500 for the first week and $100/week for each additional week (with discounted rates for volunteers staying over 4 weeks)
Teaching Fellowships
Teaching fellows are long-term volunteer teachers & leaders on the ground in Ghana.
They teach in the schools and in Teach on the Beach (TOB) After School and NewsHour programs. Fellows also lead service learning volunteers and utilize the help of voluntourists to complete strategic initiatives to improve reach, capacity and quality of After School and NewsHour programs.
Fellowships are for self-starting individuals with a background in education, experience teaching in the classroom or service work with children in other settings such as after school programs, as mentors, etc. The Teach on the Beach board personally interviews and selects fellows that they believe can thrive in the difficult environment of rural, developing nation village. The following are six focus areas fellows work in:
- Teach, teach, teach - to succeed we need to do a lot teaching and those who can teach 24/7 are very valuable
- Leading data collection and analysis of student education achievement to measure TOB's impact
- Coordinating cross-cultural, international discussion and writing between Ghana and US NewsHours
- Teaching TOB and Busua Scholars to teach their peers and students younger than them
- Engaging the tourists on the beach to teach and mentor students in our programming
- Promoting the value of learning in the community with fun educational events like spelling & math bees
Benefits of TOB Teaching Fellowships
- Unparalleled flexibility - you can choose the dates and length (min. 12 weeks) and focus area of your fellowship.
- Framework & Structure - we have been living, working and teaching in Ghana for years and have created a productive environment free of distraction.
- In-country American staff support - you will have an experienced TOB staffer with you at all times to help you implement your great ideas.
- Resources - our facilities are spacious, filled with books, computers, art supplies, musical instruments, and most importantly students who desperately want to learn.
- Authentic international experience - we don't sugarcoat the problems or segregate ourselves from the people in the community. "I am Ghanaian and they are American" Aaron Adler, our founder, often says. You will live and breathe the real Ghana with us.
- Affordable! - international service often comes with a big price tag. With Teach on the Beach, accommodations, meals, and full time, on-site American staff support is just $100/week.
