Volunteer Teaching in Mongolia

This project is perfect for anyone interested in gaining practical teaching work experience in Mongolia. While you help children improve their English, you’ll also learn from working with experienced teachers.

This volunteer opportunity will give your resume an edge when applying for a job, or when applying to university of your choice. It’s also an excellent talking point during interviews! Even if you don’t work as a teacher, you’ll learn skills like planning that can be applied to any career.

No teaching experience? No problem! You’ll receive a full induction from Projects Abroad staff when you arrive in Mongolia. Your supervisor is also available to answer your questions, tweak your lesson plans, or guide you with challenging in-class situations. You can also take a look at our extensive online database for ideas.

Please note that you should have intermediate English skills to join this project.

If you’re interested in teaching other subjects, contact Project Abroad’s Experts. They’ll advise you on what subjects you can teach in Mongolia, and whether you can teach those subjects part-time or full time.

This project runs throughout the year, and you can join at any time from a minimum of three weeks.

You’ll gain teaching work experience in Mongolia at a kindergarten, elementary school, high school, or language institute placement. We also have university placements for volunteers interested in teaching Japanese, and opportunities to work in centres for special needs adults. You’ll get involved these kinds of activities at your placement:

• Teach students English and make lessons engaging and fun
• Assist teachers with extracurricular activities such as music, sport, drama
• Teach adults in a special needs school, language centre, or university
• Take part in workshops and outreach work

A typical day in Mongolia begins at your host family home, with breakfast and preparation for the day. From the host family home, you walk or take a bus to your project. This is dependent on how far the placement is.

You will work Monday to Friday with an average of seven working hours in schools or universities. Business professionals and government workers work during the day, so English lessons may only happen in the evenings.

Depending on your placements and tasks for the day, you will either set aside time to lesson plan, or begin teaching straight away. To prepare for your project, bring speaking games and conversational activities that can get your students confident with speaking English.

We encourage you to sing songs, practise pronunciation, and get your students speaking. This will help raise their confidence and improve their English much faster.

Weekends in Mongolia are the time to relax and explore the country’s vast plains and history. You can visit the nomads, learn about Genghis Khan, or plan a tour through the Gobi Desert. You can also spend a quiet weekend getting to know your host family and other volunteers.

Ulaanbaatar

You will work in Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar. The city is Mongolia’s financial hub, and you will live here with a local host family. There’s plenty to see and do in your free time. You can visit a Mongolian Buddhist monastery, take a trip out of the city to visit the nomads, or just wander Sükhbaatar Square.

We place volunteers at kindergartens, schools, and language institutes. At most of our volunteer teaching placements in Mongolia, teachers have limited English speaking ability. You will help teachers provide more focused attention to smaller groups of students.