The final week of Paul's volunteer placement has arrived, and here are his final comments:

My favorite memory: All of my students. Every one of them were good students, had a good attitude trying their best and always willing to learn. This in spite of the fact that I was teaching them during...

Paul’s thoughts on his first week volunteer teaching at the Thai Mueang Vocational College:
I have just finished my first week teaching at the vocational school. My students were 16 teenagers who are studying to work in the tourism/hospitality field. Although the school is officially on vacation...

In addition to improving the children’s English skills, our other main goal is to bring creativity and imagination to the Thai classroom, enabling the children to think independently and look at things more curiously. We want to branch out from the typical question and answer teaching methodology,...

We created Thai Mueang Volunteers with the motivation of providing equal opportunity for all the children in our community. We are very aware of a large inconsistency between the schools in our area that have excess funding and those with little to none. Most often those schools with adequate resources...

TM Volunteers had to say good bye to our volunteer Karen recently. Here are her final comments and tips after her four week stay in Thai Mueang:

I’m not going to lie- when my last day of teaching arrived, I was somewhat relieved. Teaching and lesson planning were a huge challenge for me, as I...