Education and Programme Intern (Chen Su Lan Methodist Children's Home)

Organisation Overview: Chen Su Lan Methodist Children's Home provides temporary shelter, care, and protection to boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 21 years old who come from needy and disadvantaged families in Singapore. Our Home is one of the biggest children's homes in Singapore. There are usually 70 - 90 boys and girls living in the Children's Home and every year, and 20 - 30 children are admitted or discharged back into their families or community

Brief Description: Seeking a teaching intern to join our multidisciplinary team focused on children’s and youth’s best interests. Deliver tiered interventions in consultation to support academic and personal excellence. Collaborate with stakeholders to plan, organize, and implement educational programmes and activities for children, families, and volunteers—designing content, planning budgets, and attending external meetings to support development and execution.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Manage children and youths’ behaviour for the purpose of providing a safe and positive learning environment

2. Provide academic support for learners according to their abilities and in alignment with mainstream or special school curriculum objectives

3. Support centre’s planned learning journeys and educational programmes

4. Facilitate educational programmes that need support

5. Work with other internal and external stakeholders to design and execute programmes

6. Work with the operations department to plan programme logistics and crowd control

7. Communicate roles and responsibilities to programme volunteers

8. Provide administrative support to the programme team's operations, e.g. notetaking for meetings

Learning Objectives and Outcomes:

1. To gain knowledge in pedagogy through guided teaching experience

2. To participate in design instruction to promote learners' learning

3. To learn how to create and implement effective lesson plans to meet the individual needs of diverse learners

4. To participate in creating and using instructional materials and techniques

5. To be able to utilize adaptive learning technology for instruction and communication

6. To learn how to create a positive and productive classroom environment using an effective classroom management plan

7. To be able to engage in self-evaluation and professional goal setting

8. To apply the various strategies to communicate with children and youths during programme facilitation

9. To be exposed to project management across various stakeholders

10. To gain knowledge in effective programme coordination and communications with different stakeholders

Duration of Internship: 6 months

Daily Working Hours: 9.00am to 6.00pm (Wed, Fri), 12.30pm to 9.30pm (Mon, Tue, Thu)

Will this internship require weekend work?: Occasional weekend work for special events/projects

Requirements (if any): Given that Chen Su Lan Methodist Children's Home is an MSF Gazetted Place of Safety for Children, all interns are required to undergo MSF screening 1 month in advance prior to internship commencement. The age of the Interns must be above 18 years old as per the MSF regulations.

No of Vacancies: 2

Please read the following to apply for the internship:

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3.      Copy and paste Education and Programme Intern (Chen Su Lan Methodist Children's Home) into the "Internship Role" field.

For further enquiries on the internship role, please email youthcorps_communityinternship@nyc.gov.sg