Science Teaching Mentor

We’re looking for a Science Teaching Mentor who can live and volunteer for five months in Vanuatu 

• This assignment seeks to improve students learning in schools and post-secondary institutions by improving science teachers' teaching strategies and in science laboratory learnings and support the implementation of the science curriculum across schools including monitoring of the new curriculum implementation. 
• To be considered for this role, you’ll need qualifications in Science Education preferably at postgraduate level, experienced in best-practice and discipline approaches to higher education across science faculty or/and teaching across STEM discipline in secondary school level, experiences in monitoring , implementing and evaluating courses and programs across school of science, and Strength in building capacity of students outcomes/success through evidence-based approach
• You will be working alongside the Curriculum and Ministry of Education personnel, and of course with selected school science teachers 

About the Partner Organisation 

The Ministry of Education and Training VISION is a caring education system which provides every young person with the lifelong skills, values, and confidence to be self-reliant. Moreover, so they contribute to the development of Vanuatu, and which works in partnership with all stakeholders to provide well-managed schools. The MISSION is to provide student-centered education that is accessible, relevant, sustainable, responsive, and of good quality, to guarantee every young person.

The core purpose of the Vanuatu National Curriculum is to provide a quality, relevant and harmonized curriculum to all students in Vanuatu from preschool to year 13 through conventional teaching delivery by teachers in classroom and laboratories as appropriate. Students tests and exams results have shown that students performance in science needs improvement and the need to support the teachers in their strategies and teaching delivery is identified as important for this to happen. There is no readily available qualified local persons to do this so hence an assistance of an expert volunteer is being sought.

About the Australian Volunteers Program  

The Australian Volunteers Program is an Australian government-funded initiative. We support partner organisations across the Pacific, Asia, and Africa to achieve locally led change.  

Volunteers are supported throughout their volunteer journey. We actively support and encourage people of all backgrounds and abilities to volunteer and aim to make the program as accessible and inclusive as possible. If you have accessibility requirements, please contact us to discuss how we can support you to volunteer with us - inclusion@australianvolunteers.com. Learn more about our commitment to inclusion.