Teaching as a Career

ESP is not a professional teaching program in any way, but if you're interested in education as a career, here are some potentially useful links:

Massachusetts teacher certification
Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development
The American Museum of Natural History offers a live-in Masters' program in teaching earth and space science.

Other opportunities to teach and tutor

In addition to the teaching opportunities listed below, we have created a new mailing list for teaching opportunities, that you are welcome to opt-in to. This email list is going to receive advertisements about teaching opportunities from both inside and outside of ESP, so if you are interested, sign up here.

Learning Unlimited
1.617.379.0178 (phone)
Learning Unlimited harnesses the limitless energy of college students and other volunteers to create high-energy, deep, and fun learning experiences for middle and high school students. Our member groups are located at colleges and universities across the United States, where they host one-day extravaganzas to expose students to a variety of fun topics, multi-week in-depth programs to explore interesting and advanced material in more detail, AP courses for those in schools that do not offer them, low-cost SAT Preparation courses, and more.

Boston ABCD
178 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02111
1.617.348.6000 (phone)
1.617.423.9215 (tty)
ABCD, Inc. (Action for Boston Community Development) is a private non-profit human services agency providing opportunities for upward mobility to hundreds of thousands of Greater Boston residents through innovative, quality programs and services since 1962.

Boston Partners in Education
192 South Street, Suite 600
Boston, MA 02111
617.451.6145 (phone)
617.482.0617 (fax)
Helping students in the Boston Public Schools gain the academic skills they need to become successful learners. Volunteer as a tutor, mentor, speaker, or classroom assistant.

Citizen Schools
1 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
Share your passion with middle school youth. Become a Citizen Teacher! Citizen Schools is a national nonprofit that partners with middle schools to expand the learning day and increase opportunities for low-income children. We are currently recruiting 10,000 scientists, engineers and STEM students and enthusiasts in Massachusetts and across the country to lead 12-week hands-on apprenticeship courses that build students' skills and fuel their imaginations. Volunteers would work with a group of 15 students for 90 minutes each week, with a trained staff member to support you in the classroom at one of our Boston, Revere or New Bedford schools. We have curriculum for you to choose from, or we’d work with you to design your own. Click “Apply to be a volunteer” here if you’re interested in getting involved or would like to learn more about whether this is the right volunteer opportunity for you. Our students need your mind, passion and expertise in the classroom one afternoon a week. What will you teach?

English at Large
800 West Cummings Park, Suite 5550
Woburn, MA 01801
1.781.395.2374 (phone)
1.781.395.3281 (fax)
The mission of the English at Large is to assist adults in acquiring basic literacy in English. This organization provides free, individual and small group tutoring to adults who are native speakers of English and are not literate, as well as those adults who are learning English as another language.

Elderhostel
PO Box 56033
Boston, MA 02205-6033
1.800.454.5768 (phone)
1.978.323.4141 (outside the U.S. and Canada)
Elderhostel, a not-for-profit organization, is the nation's first and the world's largest educational and travel organization for older adults. From tutoring school children in China to building homes in Guatemala to assisting with dolphin research in Midway or Peru, Service Programs offer you the chance to put your time and energy to work for worthy causes.

Jamaica Plain Adult Learning Program
144 McBride Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
1.617.635.5201 (phone)
1.617.635.5081 (fax)
The Adult Learning Program of the Jamaica Plain Community Centers is a community-based adult education program dedicated to the empowerment of adults in advocating for themselves, their families and their communities through the provision of free basic education, ESOL and high school diploma programs.