Teach with BRIDGE
You are 16 to 19. Once a week you run a lesson for children who genuinely need it. You do not have to invent the lesson — the curriculum is already written, and there are two of you in the room.
"But I'm not a teacher"
This is the most common objection, and the project is built so that it does not apply. We write the curriculum ourselves: materials, a plan for every lesson, exercises, homework. Your job is to deliver the lesson, not to design it. Teaching experience is not required, and almost none of our volunteers had any.
- The lesson is written — you open it and teach from it
- Two of you are in the room, so there is someone beside you if you freeze
- Training and a trial lesson with a coordinator come before your first class
- If you fall ill the lesson does not collapse: trained volunteers cover
Pick yours
English teacher
English at B2 or above
You run the lesson from the written curriculum. You do not need to speak the students' language — that is what the language helper is for.
Russian teacher
Native Russian speaker
You help children catch up with school: following the teacher, reading a textbook, writing without fear.
Language helper
Tajik, Uzbek or Kyrgyz
You explain the hard parts in the child's own language. Your English level does not matter. These people are the hardest to find, and the ones we need most.
Sixty minutes, step by step
So you know exactly what you are agreeing to.
- 0–5
Open the prepared lesson
The materials are already assembled. You say hello and share the slides.
- 5–15
Recap
Short questions on last week. The helper catches up anyone who fell behind.
- 15–40
The new topic
From the slides, with examples and pictures. It is all in the lesson plan.
- 40–55
Practice
Students work in pairs or answer in the chat. The two of you move around the group and help.
- 55–60
Homework
Also already written. You say goodbye.
- +1 min
Mark attendance
One tap and a line about how it went. That is the whole admin.
An hour a week. Ten weeks running
- 60
- minutes a week
- 10
- weeks
- ~20
- minutes to prepare
We ask you to take the whole course, not "as long as it works out". For a child whose only extra teaching this is, a teacher who disappears is not a small thing — it is a year lost. If you know exams start in a month and this will slip, apply for the next intake instead.
Nine steps, and they are real
We are responsible for the children's safety and for the quality of the teaching, so selection takes a while. It is not a formality and should not be one.
- 1Application on the site
- 2Automatic check: age and availability
- 3A short language test
- 4A video interview
- 5We contact both of your references
- 6BRIDGE training, including the safeguarding module
- 7A trial lesson
- 8Parental consent, if you are under 18
- 9Approved to teach
We treat the written test as a filter only: anyone can pass one with AI today. The decision is made in the live, unscripted interview.
Experience, not a certificate — and a certificate too
Real teaching experience
Not observing and not assisting: your own group, your own students, your own result.
Training from BRIDGE
Method, working with low language levels, safeguarding. That stays with you.
A certificate and volunteer hours
Hours are counted from lessons actually taught, not from what you tell us.
A reference letter
For volunteers who finish and teach well. Written specifically, not from a template.
And honestly, about motivation
Plenty of people volunteer partly for their university applications. That is a fine answer and we do not hold it against anyone at interview — BRIDGE's founder is doing this partly for that reason too. But the certificate and the hours are issued only after a full course with at least 80% attendance. The reward sits at the end rather than the entrance, so the people who stay are the ones who will actually see a group through.
Ready to try?
The application takes 10 minutes. After that: a test and a video conversation.