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Education is the Peace Corp’s largest program area. Volunteers play an important role in creating links among schools, parents, and communities by working in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools as math, science, conversational English, and resource teachers or as early grade reading and literacy teacher trainers. Volunteers also develop libraries and technology resource centers.
If you choose Education, take three courses from one of the following areas:
- Elementary, secondary, or special education
- English or linguistics
- TESOL
- Math
- Computer science
- Engineering
- Any physical or biological science
You will also build 50 hours of related field experience through an activity such as:
Teaching in one of these or a similar form: in a classroom, with a community outreach organization, or in a formal tutoring capacity. The subject of the teaching may be English as a foreign/second language, special education, drama, or a STEM subject. Tutoring opportunities are available in the ACE English Language Institute on the URI campus. The URI Child Development Center on campus offers opportunities for URI students to work with pre-kindergarten aged children.
