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Summer Internship Program Costa Rica

Summer Internship Program Costa Rica January 31, 2012

Summer Internship Program

Internship Dates: June 15–July 24, 2012

We are now recruiting for a Summer Internship Program with a school we work with in Monteverde Costa Rica. The Internship is a six-week, field-based experience. Summer Interns work as full-time assistants to a cooperating teacher during their day-camp summer programs. They learn to plan and execute activities for their student group and assist in all aspects of the camp.

Morning session consists of cultural, artistic, and environmental activities with a mixture of local and international children. In the afternoon, students split up according to native language and receive intensive language classes. Interns assist with the intensive English as a Second Language classes and may attend Spanish lessons themselves after camp is over.

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The School

The School is a bilingual school located in a tropical cloud forest area of Costa Rica. This independent school offers creative, experiential education to 220 students with an emphasis on integrating environmental education into all aspects of the school.

Well over half of the students receive significant scholarships since their families’ incomes are often less than $500 per month.

The campus is located on 106 acres of cloud forest and in garden plots maintained by each grade and on trails that wind through the forest, classes embark on journeys of exploration and discovery. There are few school settings where children so completely integrate experience, observation and formal learning into their lives.

Price

• £1650

Application Deadline: April 1st, 2012

Length of Internship: 6 weeks

What’s included

• 30 hours/week as an Assistant Counselor

• 5 hours/week of Spanish Classes and Cultural Activities

• Organised accommodation in a family home stay with all meals and laundry

• 1 daytime field trip/week

• transportation, internet access , orientation and ongoing support.

• letter for discounted entrance to local reserves, orientation, professional seminars, and supervision and support.

• Comprehensive Travel insurance

• Quality pre-departure information, visa advice

Skills needed

• Ability to relate to school aged children and organise workshops, games and extra-curricular activities

• Be able to work independently without supervision.

• Initiative, flexibility and enthusiasm.