COLORS offers several exciting opportunities for volunteers!
Service Learning with COLORS
English-language student-teachers can complete service-learning hours with COLORS. This authentic, guided, service-learning experience can also strengthen your resume and enhance your competitiveness for getting a job teaching English in the US and overseas.
The types of service-learning opportunities offered each semester vary from conversation practice to teaching live online virtual sessions. With teaching sessions, instructional content is shared with you. A teaching coach is with you before/during/after your teaching to share teaching tips/strategies and answer all your questions, as you develop your teacher toolkit.
No prior teaching experience is necessary…just a love of languages/cultures and an interest in working with English language students.
Virtual Exchange Opportunities for Teacher Training
We are fortunate to have partnerships with other programs that also train teachers. Some semesters, you can have the opportunity to collaborate in virtual exchange training with students training to be English teachers in other countries. We are grateful to our collaborators at the University of Huelva in Spain for connecting their teacher training groups with ours so that we can embed virtual exchange projects into selected undergraduate and graduate TESOL courses.
To learn about the service learning and virtual exchange opportunities with COLORS, you can:
- Talk to your TESOL teacher at UCF and ask what opportunities are available for your class.
- Contact a COLORS coordinator to share your interest in one of these opportunities.
Become Part of a Research Team
COLORS aims to provide undergraduates and graduates with hands-on, language-research experiences by engaging them in reviews of literature, research design, data analysis, and data interpretation.
The student-research team can include MA TESOL assistants in GTA or GRA positions as well as interested students looking for more experience. We meet regularly to discuss the projects currently underway and exchange ideas. The goal is for student-researchers to ultimately contribute to publishable research articles.