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—Northwestern students have taught in countries that include Ethiopia, Germany and New Zealand.

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 schoolchildren.
• 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. 

Northwestern also offers 8 in-demand Master of Education tracks, so you can pursue additional graduate-level training in early childhood education, special education, educational administration and more.