Every year, Jody Euteneuer, the service-learning coordinator at Moorhead State University in Minnesota, makes the rounds to education classes recruiting students to serve as tutors in English as a second language. Between 200 and 400 students participate in the program each semester. The program starts with training from local organizations that serve non-English speaking populations. Students then enter high school classrooms, where they serve as mentors to youth while providing them ESL education. The mentors, many of whom are current or potential education majors and often find that the time helps them evaluate their own ability as teachers.
