Peace Corps Education Program Guide

Teach lessons that last a lifetime. Education is the Peace Corps’ 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
• Math
• Computer Science
• Any Physical or Biological Science

Recommended courses:

• EDU 323 Educational Psychology (3)
• EDU 250 Introduction to Education & Teaching (3)
• EDU 311 Foundations of Literacy Teaching & Learning (3)
• FCS 361 Creative Activities for Children (3)

And 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