VISIT THIS HISTORIC CITY AND GLOBAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION
YWAM Boston — Somerville, Massachusetts
Welcome others home.
Boston is home to the nations. Our neighborhood of Winter Hill hosts many from Brazil, Haiti, and El Salvador, among other nations. In our early years of pioneering YWAM Boston, a survey of our neighbors proved their greatest need was English class. Our leaders prayed for this need, and in 2019, we pioneered our first neighborhood focused English class. Since then we have added classes and grown in reach both online and local. We run three semesters of classes: January, April, and September quarters. Our average class has 4-6 students, which allows our group to grow into a family where care, fun, and learning are cultivated.
Boston is a world center for learning. The nations send their young adults here to college to grow in education, so they will return to change their home nations. Boston holds a great opportunity and responsibility to shape the future of nations and history.
Be part of a family.
At YWAM Boston, we are a community of followers of Jesus who love to create, move, teach and inspire others to live sold out lives for the Kingdom of God. This includes our English Department, where we offer a felt need of English training. We set the table, and then invite these neighbors and friends to join us. We grow in language together, practice, and learn, but we also are able to share life and make friends. It's through these friendships that we see students encounter the God we serve and Love.
We pray for lives to change because they came to the table.
Want to join a ‘hybrid’ cohort at YWAM Boston?
Experience an in-person community with all the flexibility and benefits that come with an online course! Send us a message if you’re interested, and apply today for the next in-person course or internship!
September 26, 2024
YWAM Boston
Somerville, Massachusetts
Course Type: Self-paced internship
Course Length: 4 – 24 weeks weeks
Finish Date: March 21, 2025
Go to YWAM Boston and join other students and instructors for a TESOL internship that is starting here on this date. Stay for a few weeks, or volunteer with us for 6 months! This self-paced internship is designed to be open-ended and offers participants a mix of opportunities: including getting a professional teaching certificate (if you don’t have one already), completing the online TESOL course in a traditional in-person setting, collaborating with our staff team on more advanced projects, gaining experience teaching in classrooms on a weekly basis, and helping to facilitate training for other teachers in our program or around the world. Learn more about YWAM Boston on their website.
Coordinator: Emily Burks, tesol@ywamboston.org
— Finish in 12 weeks —
Take a peek at the April 2023 schedule.
Whether you are in Boston or online, you can follow along with this cohort of students. » Click here to download the schedule
Find a teaching position.
YWAM Boston offers three semesters of in-person ESL classes starting in January, April, and September. Come to Boston to join a ‘hybrid’ TESOL experience while you complete the Citizens TESOL course. Or you can also ask us about current opportunities to be an online teaching assistant in YWAM Boston’s ESL classes on Zoom / Google Meet.
Coordinator: Emily Jerome, tesol@ywamboston.org
Volunteer as a Mission Builder.
YWAM Boston is part of the MBI (Mission Builders International) network, which means that MBI can help you get matched with other short-term volunteer opportunities at this location. Contact MBI for more details about how to volunteer as a ‘mission builder’ at YWAM Boston, or at another one of YWAM’s 1200 operating locations worldwide.
DID YOU KNOW:
Boston is home to the first college in North America.
Harvard University was founded in 1636 and is located only a few minutes away in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world.
“A great place to improve my teaching and make friends.”
A TEACHER’S STORY
I received my training with Citizens TESOL and enjoyed my practicum as a co-teacher with YWAM Boston's ESL online program! It has been wonderful to have students from multiple countries gather as students in a virtual classroom and learn English together!
From laughing about funny stories from daily life, to discussions about serious feelings and situations such as the pandemic, the students have been outspoken in a comfortable environment where they share what's important to them. And the teachers have been able to meet the students’ needs by evaluating their level of English and providing instruction, encouragement, and practice to enable students to continue moving forward on their language learning journey.
YWAM Boston has been a great place to get to know students, improve my teaching through practice and observation, and make friends.
— Mary, class of 2022
We are a community of followers of Jesus who love to create, move, teach and inspire others to live sold out lives for the Kingdom of God.
— YWAM Boston