Volunteer · Skills Academy
The job you already do is the course she cannot find.
Analyst, developer, designer, project manager: somewhere a displaced professional is retraining toward your field. Teach one hour of it, live, in the shape that fits your week.
What you'd do
Teach live, from the work you did this week.
An hour at a time, on TEEI's own platform, to people retraining toward your field. No lesson plans, no grading: the format carries the structure.
Teaching your own product? Welcome, as one option. The session says so on its page, and teaches the skill, not the sale. Participants' details are never shared with your employer.
One lit hour. The rest of the week stays yours.
What you know
Someone needs exactly what you know.
No lesson plans · Your field, spoken out loud
The shelf
Or teach a course that’s already built.
Most volunteers teach their own subject, and that needs nothing but the application. Beside it stands a shelf of sixty-two courses with the curriculum, exercises, labs and assessments done. You pick the one that matches your work and add the only thing a shelf cannot hold: someone who does this for a living, live in the room.
Every course in English · Free for every learner
You write code
The first script that runs, and the review that makes the second one better.
- Python Essentials 1
- Python Essentials 2
- JavaScript Essentials 1
- JavaScript Essentials 2
- HTML Essentials
- CSS Essentials
- C Essentials 1
- C Essentials 2
- C Advanced
- C++ Essentials 1
- C++ Essentials 2
- C++ Advanced
You work in security
What an attack looks like, from someone paid to catch one.
- Introduction to Cybersecurity
- The Cybersecurity Landscape
- Cybersecurity Essentials
- Understanding Threats and Attacks
- Security Operations and the Defense Analyst
- Data and Tools for Defense Analysts
- SOC Essentials: Introduction to Threat Hunting
- SOC Essentials: Investigating with Splunk
- Introduction to Splunk
- The Art of Investigation
- Ethical Hacker
- Industrial Cybersecurity Essentials
You work in IT support
The job that hires without a degree, taught by someone who holds it.
- IT Essentials
- IT Support Essentials
- IT Customer Support Basics
- Computer Hardware Basics
- Hardware and Upgrade Support
- Operating Systems Basics
- Operating Systems Support
- Security and Connectivity Support
You work with data or AI
The tools every job ad now assumes, shown by someone who uses them daily.
- Introduction to Data Science
- Data Analytics Essentials
- Introduction to Modern AI
- Prompt Like an Engineer
- Apply AI: Analyze Customer Reviews
- Apply AI: Update Your Resume
You teach English
Not textbook English. The English spoken on an engineering team, in the meeting she has to survive.
- English for IT 1
- English for IT 2
- English for IT: Advice and Time
- English for IT: People and Quantities
- English for IT: Describing and Comparing
- English for IT: Needs and Responsibilities
You have built or run a business
The plan she has been carrying in her head, written down and pressure-tested.
- Discovering Entrepreneurship
- Launching a Business Venture
- Managing a Business Venture
- Engaging Stakeholders for Success
- Creating Compelling Reports
You run networks
How the internet actually holds together, from someone who runs a piece of it.
- Networking Essentials
- Networking Devices and Initial Configuration
- Network Addressing and Basic Troubleshooting
- Network Support and Security
You run Linux and servers
The terminal stops being a wall and starts being a tool.
- Linux Unhatched
- Linux Essentials
- Linux 1
- Linux 2
You are fluent with everyday tech
The confidence to apply for work that assumes a computer.
- Digital Awareness
- Digital Safety and Security Awareness
- Using Computer and Mobile Devices
- Create Digital Content, Communicate and Collaborate Online
- Introduction to IoT and Digital Transformation
You do something else entirely
Then teach that. Your subject needs no shelf, only an hour.
The shapes
Four shapes of the same hour.
Every live format on Skills Academy is one professional and the people learning her field. You choose the shape; the shape carries the structure.
Once. That is real too.
One expert, one hour, live questions from people training toward your field. The smallest real commitment on this page.
The same faces, week after week.
A small group, live on video, building your subject across a season. You watch the same people get visibly better.
A portfolio review. An interview rehearsal.
One knowledge session, once: a small group on a topic from your field, or one learner and the thing she cannot practise alone, her CV in your industry, the interview for the job she wants.
Hours you set, between the two of you.
The same professional, across months of her rebuild: the long version of handing a career over the fence. Big enough to be its own programme: TEEI Mentorship.
You pick the shape when you apply, and change it any time. There is no fixed number of hours here: the shape you choose is the commitment you make.
Apply to teach an hour →Rather write than appear? Course material has a seat too: curriculum creators build what the hours teach.
The other side of the hour
She studies through the power cuts. Displaced professionals, most of them women, retraining into data, code, design, and business: your field, from zero footing in a new country. What is missing is you.
The proof
learning units completed by TEEI learners on DataCamp. The studying is already happening, every night.
Figures: DataCamp partner dashboard, 21 September 2026
Live figures: the shared TEEI platform that carries the language and mentoring programmes. DataCamp hours: the partner dashboard, dated in the row
The room
You teach the hour. We build the rest.
Skills Academy runs on the platform TEEI built for its language and mentoring programmes. You bring the field; everything around the hour is handled.
How it starts
Four steps, one of them ours.
Apply
About five minutes: import your profile from LinkedIn or type it in. Your field, your experience, the shapes that fit.
A person reads it
Not a filter. A real review, and we will be in touch.
Pick your shape
Webinar, class, session, or mentorship, and your first date. Change the shape whenever your life changes.
The room opens
Your field, live, to the people who need exactly it. A coordinator is in the wings for your first hour.
Before you ask
Questions professionals ask.
Do I need teaching experience?
No. You need a field and the willingness to speak it out loud. The formats carry the structure: a webinar has a host, a class has a rhythm, a session has one clear question. Nobody hands you a blank classroom.
What could I teach?
Web development, data science, cybersecurity, UX, marketing, product management, HR, cloud, AI and machine learning, career development, or the thing only you would think to offer. The application has a field for exactly that.
What platform does it run on?
TEEI's own. The same video rooms that carry our language and mentoring programmes carry Skills Academy sessions. For you it is a browser link; there is nothing to install and no account to buy.
Can my company send a team?
Yes. Companies place their specialists as teachers through skill volunteering: one page for that is here. If your organisation is a partner, your hours also count in its report.
What if I can only do it once?
Then teach one webinar. One hour, once, is a real contribution here, and nobody will chase you for a second one. Most volunteers decide the shape of their next hour after they have given the first.
Out of reasons?
Teach the hour only you can.
One hour of the job you already do, in the shape that fits your week.
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Questions first? volunteers@theeducationalequalityinstitute.org