Teaching English in a Public School in Italy

We partner with local public schools to provide resources that support education. Volunteers and interns are placed with partner Schools.

Even if Legal Age in italy is 15 years old before leave school, the city of Naples has a high student drop-out rate (around 23%) with many children choosing to leave their education early in favor of finding work on the streets, where they can find jobs under the table or connected with criminal organizations activities. Families won't be persecuted if their sons are not attending schools, and some of the families don’t stimulate them enough to keep studying, sometimes they prefer them bring some money at home.
It's not just a matter of families and urban poverty: also the public system is failing in providing effective and stimulating programs and activities. In some areas of Naples, public schools do not have the means to offer extra-curricular activities to students or alternative applied ways of teaching.
As a volunteer on the Teaching English project in Italy, you will help address this gap by either assisting local teachers during the day at a public school, organizing activities and workshops to help children or teens improve their English language abilities.
This program aims also to work on the Italian problem of the low level of the English language, the incapacity of communicating with different cultureses).

This program, thanks to the fact that students can meet people from different countries and cultures, is like a kind of new air in the school which can excite them and improve their motivation and the efforts they put into studying English. Thanks to the help of volunteers they can realize that English is not just a subject in school, but a way to communicate with people coming from other parts of the World and a fundamental way to get opportunities to explore the world or get a job.

On the Teaching English project, you will be placed in a public school in Naples where you will assist teachers in their daily English classes. You can expect to follow the local school curriculum and either assist the local teacher on your own or alongside another volunteer.

You will have a morning shift at your placement and will work for approximately 4 hours per day (M-F). Please note that start times and daily workload depends on the school.

You may therefore plan daily activities which could include sightseeing, shopping or taking Italian language lessons.