At present we are simply building a registry of potential teacher volunteers since our program is not yet complete. There are no prerequisites for teachers except that they speak English well. You do not need a teaching certificate or other teaching background. Teacher volunteers are often young people desiring travel, work or life experience, or often they are early retirees who are willing to provide a very worthwhile service for mankind.

Volunteers must pay their own air travel to and from their assignments, but they receive free room and board. Positions are unsalaried and assignments are for a school year.

The nature of the ACCESS (Auxiliary Closed Caption English with Simplified Spelling) System that we use for teaching is that the success of the program is assured by the standardization provided by the video instructional tapes, rather than by the previous professional experience of the teachers.

The role of the teacher is to coordinate the students’ activities, making sure that the video tapes are presented at the proper time and that by using the teacher guides, the students are led through their workbooks and practice exercises in the proper order.

The teachers do not need to speak the language of the country because the teaching method is similar to that of a mother whose child does not initially share a language with its teacher. The country host is asked to provide the teacher with a mentor to translate regarding local needs, and we will endeavour to send teachers out in pairs so as to reduce the problem of culture shock.

Teachers need to have the proper adventuresome spirit to take on these assignments. It is a great way to see the world and to become acquainted with another culture, or perhaps to become reacquainted with one’s parents’ or ancestors’ previous culture. Rather than staying for three days in a hotel and seeing the tourist sights, one can really get to know the people and culture while providing a great service to them. For retirees it is also usually cheaper than living at home.

We are developing a correspondence teacher training package, of which the first five lessons have been written. The plan is to bring teachers who have completed the correspondence program to one of two sites (one is in Ontario and the other is in Kansas) for two weeks final training before they leave for their overseas assignments.

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Please, please become an editor volunteer. Our forty-thousand definition simplified dictionary data base simply needs volunteers who speak good English to edit it.

There are many different tasks involved. In December of 1997, 80 volunteer editors finished making up example simple sentences for each of the words on the data base.

Our NEXT task will be syllibification of the Angel Translation of the word list. As a volunteer, you will be trained how to do this task. It is a tremendous long work, but many hands will make short work of it.

In the future there will be the compiling, translating and simplifying of glossaries for various disciplines, such as medicine, chemistry, air line pilots, ships captains, and so forth.

We will also be editing some subsets of the dictionary data base, (indeed the first ones that we shall publish).

You need only basic word processor skills and the willingness to devote about two hours a week (or as much more as you like) to a project. You need know nothing about markup or parts of speech as that is not involved.

You will be sent the files by email, and will return them the same way. The idea behind this dictionary is that the user needs to know less than 1,000 words to be able to look up over forty thousand definitions and their conventional English spelling.

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If you reside in a country other than one of 30 listed and are a professor in a university or of equal rank, such as a medical doctor or in a similarly ranked government position, please use the volunteer form to receive information outlining a chancellor's responsibilities. Your inquiry will be greatly appreciated.

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This really needs one or two full-time volunteers to draw the 4,800 common items for the student workbooks. There are often many items combined in one picture such as in a kitchen or living room. These will be simplified drawings which we may also use in the dictionary.

This would be a full-time one year task for one individual. It is possible that compensation might be provided on some limited deferred royalty basis.

If anyone knows of an accomplished illustrator in a monastery or prison with a lot of time on their hands and who would be willing to take on this task please let them know about this great opportunity for service to humanity.

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