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Data de início: 01-09-2021

Data de fim: 01-07-2022

Vagas: 1

Duração: 10 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 25-05-2021

Financiamento: Financiamento por aprovar

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 105 €

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Resumo: (children - education)
The hosting organization is one of the 40 Freinet Schools. The Freinet Pedagogical concept is part of the larger pedagogical project of Community Education. Its aim is the total development of a person, with attention for the optimal development for each child personally. The hosting organization is a kindergarten and primary school.

The aims of the school are:
- to have a constant attention for natural learning, based on the experiences and world of interest of the child, keeping in mind the established development goals and school terms.
- To work together, based on cooperative and democratic consultation instead of one sided authority. Children are one of the three stakeholder groups in our school. This way, we want to stimulate independency in children.
- To experiment and learn-by-doing instead of applying rules and regulations, because the learning effect is much larger when a child can convert self-discovered material into new relations.
- To work usefully and functionally. Working useless in a school leads to following without thinking and a lack of satisfaction.
The groups of children are structured in a way that there are always 2 age groups together. This stimulates that older children learn from the younger ones and the other way around.
There is a lot a thematic approach – so called projects – especially in the kindergarten. Their kids can explore together different themes that are of interest in their world. In primary school, these projects are larger and more elaborated in time and space. The learning area of ‘world orientation’ is treated in these projects.

Benefit from the volunteer:
The school sees project education as the important working method. Having an international volunteer could in this context be a perfect challenge for everyone involved to apply this form of non-formal education. The presence and cooperation of a foreign volunteer can mean a serious surplus value in our school. One of our goals is to form our children to be active citizens with respect for every other human being and for other cultures.

Perfil: Age: 18-30
For the organization motivation and interest in the themes the project is working with, namely education and children, is the biggest criteria. The learning-possibilities of the volunteer are also important. Since it is needed in the work with children, the volunteer needs to like to work with children and should have interest in pedagogical methods.

Level of language skills: motivated to learn Dutch

Tarefas: The tasks of the volunteer will evolve from practical help in the classroom to the setting up of a specific project. The velocity of this evolution will depend on the growing language and practical skills of the volunteer.
The volunteer will:
- Assist in mainly one classroom (3rd-4thgrade). This can be individual guidance of children who can’t follow the lessons as good as the others. It can also be to assist when the teacher is using a method where they need assistance, for example when they want to do an educational game to teach them something; then the volunteer can help in preparing this and guide it. It can also be to help with the classes when they are drawing, making something creative, or doing workshops, such as drama and theatre or teaching them new songs.
- Take part in out-door activities with the children: go swimming with them, excursions, thematical workshops, … For example, going to the forest in autumn to learn about this season, going to a museum and they have interactive work-shops, going to a theatre or a movie and later in class having a de-briefing about it, going to the seaside and learn about the typical vegetation there, going for a week somewhere together…
- Next to that, the volunteer will organize own activities and workshops, depending on the interests of the volunteer. For example, to set up a project about her home country, to teach the children about the differences and similarities between cultures. A lot of time of the volunteer’s work will go to this aspect.

Volunteer’s benefit:
The volunteer will be as an extra in the team of the teachers of the school. She/he will get the opportunity to assist in different classrooms (mainly one, but some others) and to get a close look on the educational tools and methods of a Freinetschool. The principles of the Freinet-philosophy are related to non-formal education and experimental learning. This means that the children have to work on a variety of projects with different themes.

Horário: The volunteer will do voluntarily work for 4 days a week from 9AM until 4PM. School holidays are free. Obviously, the summer holiday the school is closed, but we strongly wish to offer the volunteer ongoing activities that are linked to the tasks that s/he will have done during the school year. The organization supports this and provided us with useful contacts. A lot of children that attend the school visit Speelpleinwerking during summer. This is a common setting, where children can attend holiday activities under the supervision of experienced monitors. Activities include outside group games, art workshops, spending time in the playground, games, … At this stage, we don’t have a concrete practical outline of tha tasks of the volunteer during summer, but we started negotiating with Speelpleinwerking De Pit and Speelpleinwerking Groene Zone.

Documentação: CV + Motivation Letter + Application Form

Download: Application form European Solidarity Corps (2021).docx