Teaching House - Charity Work and Donations
Teaching House strides to play a positive role in the community and aims to use it's expertise in teacher training and English language teaching to help those who can benifit from it.
Free Eductional Consultancy
The staff at Teaching House have a huge repertoire of knowledge and experience in setting up and running English language courses, both here in the US and overseas. Staff members have set up teacher training courses in the Middle East, grant-writing progams for doctors in Cambodia, worked on ESL course books for oil workers and run free language classes during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
We also run free ESL classes at the university, offering language tuition to individuals who might not otherwise have access to classes.
We strongly believe in education - and getting it right. As such, we offer a free consultancy service for education providers in New York City who are working to better the community.
If you feel that you are or know of a center which could benifit from assistance, please contact us.
ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION
As a global institution that is run locally, Teaching House truly understands the value of “Think globally, act locally.” We know that as a teaching center we consume a lot of paper and take away from the precious resources of our planet. It’s for the this reason that each year we make a donation to the Arbor Day Foundation in order to offset the amount of paper that we use in our office and to run our school.
Established in 1972, the Arbor Day Foundation is one of the oldest foundations of its type and is the largest non-profit dedicated solely to planting trees. The Foundation is responsible each year for the planting of millions of trees and fostering nature and education programs designed to preserve and rescue our shrinking forest lands.
So far Teaching House has been able to save acres of forested lands through our donations of over $2,160 dollars and the conservation work of the Arbor Day Foundation. We are proud to be a responsible business and proud to do our part in saving our world’s great and beautiful resource – our forest lands.
Educational Donations
Every year Teaching House donates the value of one tuition fee to a worthy educational cause. The donation is desinged to help a school or organization to realize a project or class that they would otherwise not be able to do. We are especially keen to support programs which benifit the community and involve ESL students.
In 2008, Teaching House was proud to support a Fair Trade Project for 11th grade students at Brooklyn International Highschool in Brooklyn, NY.
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Teaching House Grant - Fair Trade Project
Though Teaching House New York specializes in English as a Second Language (ESL) education, we also look for ways to support the field of education in general. One of the ways we do this is by investing in New York City public school education and the teachers who work hard to create projects that will engage and educate the youth of NYC by empowering them and giving them a voice to be heard in some way.
This year, TH NY donated $2,500 to Laura Berson's 11th-grade class at Brooklyn International High School - a public high school for ESL students - for her proposal to lead her students in conducting a Fair Trade Fair by researching the economic concepts of international fair trade and presenting their findings at Columbia University Teachers College, NY, to an audience chosen by the students (entrepreneurs, consumers, legislators, etc.). The purpose of the fair is to educate each audience member about fair trade and what they can do to support it in their own industry or line of work.
Many of the students in the classes that Laura teaches come from countries with businesses that benefit from fair trade, so the students will be able to explore the connections between their home countries and the international business community through their fair trade research projects. Also, this connects both the curricular goals of Laura's Economics class and her second semester Participation in Government class.
Laura hopes that, "by taking action through the culminating Fair Trade Fair, students will realize that they can make a difference and that what they have to say is valuable, a fundamental tenet of democracy."
Teaching House was impressed with Laura's project proposal and also the work her students have been doing, which involves learning the English language through higher thinking research projects requiring students to examine their position in the world and argue for it and also to develop their English writing and communication skills through a variety of mediums such as formal writing, oral presentations, video, photography, newsletters, and much more.
Teaching House NY is looking forward to attending the Fair Trade Fair put on by Laura's 11th-grade students at Teachers College and we wish the class lots of success in persuading the fair's participants in the importance of international fair trade!
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Dolkar making a poster to diagram peaceful fair trade.
Junior collecting money for a "WTO meeting".
Students research international trade issues using online resources.
Read more about Teaching House outreach programs, including the Oral Histories project grant that Teaching House made in 2007.
If you have an idea for a project that promotes ESL in the community and would like us to consider it for the 2008 Teaching House Educational Donation, please contact us.
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