FIND YOUR INSPIRATION IN MONTANA’S “BIG SKY COUNTRY”
YWAM Montana — Lakeside, Montana
Open New Doors.
We are looking for anyone who feels called to teach English as a ministry to join our community of passionate teachers-in-training at YWAM Montana’s TESOL program. Whether or not you have any prior training or experience as a teacher, TESOL is a course that will give you the practical skills needed to become a language teacher in any country on the mission field. It is backed by an internationally recognized certification that can open many doors of opportunity, both in limited-access nations overseas and among the multicultural neighbors near your front door. Whether you’re looking to support yourself with a paid job overseas, or if you want to gain practical skills before your next missions trip, or if you desire to start an English ministry in your hometown—TESOL will be an unforgettable learning experience, and all of this in a few short months.
In partnership with Citizens TESOL, our new “Online” and “Hybrid” course formats are designed to quickly and effectively train any English speaker as a fully certified English teacher.
Train. Serve. Go.
There’s a pioneering spirit in all of us that’s never content with the status quo. Something that’s never still. It calls. It moves you on. Forward. Further. And it’s all because of what we see. A world that waits to know. And for that reason alone, we are a people who look forward. Never back. Visionaries of the mission. Where together we prepare the way to advance the Kingdom, both with tools in our hearts and in our hands. For it will move mountains. And that’s as we serve and equip. Because the two go together. So we will. With you. Prepared and ready to go. To show a hurting world the way that leads to Him.
Located 1 hour from Glacier National Park and a short ten-minute walk to Flathead Lake, YWAM Montana offers a spectacular location to be trained and to train others. Come join us!
Want to join a ‘hybrid’ cohort at YWAM Montana?
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!
April 1, 2024
YWAM Montana
Lakeside, Montana
Course Type: Synchronous
Course Length: 12 weeks
Finish Date: June 21, 2024
Come to YWAM Montana and join other students and instructors for a ‘hybrid’ TESOL course that is starting here on this date. Or join us from a distance as a student in Citizens TESOL’s online course. This synchronous certificate course follows a typical weekly schedule with start and end dates that are designed to guide you through the course from start to finish. We will be partnering with any other hybrid TESOL cohorts happening at this same time. Learn more about YWAM Montana on their website. | See Pricing Plans for visiting this location.
Coordinator: Ethan Edwards, ethan.edwards@ywammontana.org
April 29, 2024
YWAM Montana
Lakeside, Montana
Course Type: Self-paced practicum
Course Length: 2, 4, or 8 weeks
Finish Date: June 21, 2024
Come to YWAM Montana and join other students and instructors for a TESOL practicum that is starting here on this date. Stay for a few weeks, or volunteer with us for 6 months! This self-paced practicum is designed to be open-ended and offers participants a mix of opportunities: including gaining experience teaching in classrooms on a daily or weekly basis, collaborating with our staff team on more advanced projects, getting a professional teaching certificate (if you don’t have one already), completing the online TESOL course in a traditional in-person setting, and helping to facilitate training for other teachers in our program or around the world. Learn more about YWAM Montana on their website. | See Pricing Plans for visiting this location.
Coordinator: Andy and Cortnie Brooks, tesol@ywammontana.org
— Finish in 12 weeks —
Take a peek at the April 2023 schedule.
Whether you are in Montana or online, you can follow along with this cohort of students. » Click here to download the schedule
Find a teaching position.
Join our team.
Wanna go and teach? YWAM Montana offers in-person ESL classes year-round, as well as a TESOL certificate course for new teachers from April to June, and other self-paced educational internships throughout the rest of the year from July to March. Come to Montana to join one of these ‘hybrid’ TESOL experiences while you complete the Citizens TESOL course at the same time. Or ask us about other opportunities to join our team that runs the course’s online learning platform.
Coordinator: Cortnie Brooks, tesol@ywammontana.org
Volunteer as a Mission Builder.
YWAM Montana 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 Montana, or at another one of YWAM’s 1200 operating locations worldwide.
DID YOU KNOW:
Montana is a paradise for stargazing.
With its northern location, clear and clean air, and relative lack of light pollution, the stars shine bright across the state of Montana. And, if you keep your eyes peeled, you might be able to spot a rare phenomena that you can't observe everywhere — like the Northern lights and the Miky Way.
“I loved my students! Their willingness to continue to learn and grow was inspiring.”
A TEACHER’S STORY
After my TESOL course at YWAM Montana, I taught English in a refugee camp with Middle East Refugee Relief. I loved my students, and seeing their willingness to continue to learn and grow after the horrors and hardships they had been through was inspiring. It was a privilege to help them in any way I could along that journey and TESOL gave me the tools to do so.
— Shelby, class of 2018
Whatever it takes, to know God and make Him known, together.
— YWAM Montana