As an education major at Northwestern, you won’t have to wait until your senior year to begin work in the classroom. Nearly every education class includes a field experience with students in area K–12 schools, so by the time you’re given a student-teaching assignment, you’ll have spent more than 100 hours working with students.

Here’s what your student-teaching experience might look like: 

• Stick close to campus and teach at a school within 60 miles of NWC.
• Teach in an inner-city school environment through Chicago Semester or Denver Urban Semester.
• Venture abroad for a semester and teach overseas—NWC students have taught in places like Paraguay, Dominican Republic and Germany. 

Visit the Writing Center for free writing help from an experienced student tutor. Strong student writers are recommended by their professors to work at the center—a paid opportunity that will also give you hands-on teaching experience.

Journey across the pond for a semester at the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world. As a visiting student, you’ll have access to more than 100 libraries and 11 million books! A 3 to 4-week summer study abroad experience in England is also offered, during which students attend plays on London’s West End, tour museums, worship at St. Paul’s Cathedral and explore a castle ruin. 

If you enjoyed participating in high school mission trips, you’ll have even more opportunities to engage in service at Northwestern.

• Participate in Romania Semester and work with New Horizons Foundation, an organization that uses adventure education to empower local teens.
• Volunteer as an English or subject-area tutor for area school children.
• Serve as a peer mentor for the Northwestern NEXT program, a college experience for students with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
• Take a 10-day or 10-week mission trip to locations around the globe, where you might volunteer with after-school programs or teach ESL and vacation Bible school.