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Feb 17, 2025
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2018-2019 Updated [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Education Minor
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TENURED AND TENURED-TRACK FACULTY:
Matthew Broda, Chair
Alison Schmidt
Megan Wereley
The Department of Education offers a teacher preparation program that leads to an Ohio, initial, four-year Resident Educator teaching license. Education is not a major at Wooster. Instead, students simultaneously pursue an academic major in a department or program while completing all of the coursework required for the Ohio teaching license.
The Department of Education provides opportunities for its teacher candidates to learn and teach within a liberal arts environment that values independence, leadership, inquiry, and tradition. The teacher education program prepares reflective and competent educators for work in classrooms, schools, and a variety of educational communities.
The Department recognizes that this preparation is provided in collaboration with all academic programs at Wooster. Throughout the teacher preparation program, students are immersed in hands-on, one-on-one experiences with classroom teachers, college faculty, and P-12 students. The Department emphasizes the importance of effective writing, speaking, and interpersonal skills and strives to encourage its graduates to become educational leaders in a complex and global society.
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Minor in Education
Consists of six courses: Special Notes:
- Students may earn a teaching license through the Department of Education with or without a minor.
- Only grades of C- or better are accepted for the minor or licensure program.
- Students pursuing a teaching license must have a 3.0 GPA to be accepted into the Licensure Program.
- Students pursuing a teaching license must complete a “Statement of Good Standing” to be accepted into the Licensure Program.
Departmental Standards for the Teaching Profession
The following seven standards for the teaching profession reflect a connection between the goals of Wooster’s teacher education program and the Ohio Standards for the Teaching Professions. Listed below is a brief explanation of what the Department expects teacher licensure candidates to achieve by the end of the teacher education program: - Student Learning: Candidates understand student learning and development and respect the diversity of students they will teach.
- Content Knowledge: Candidates know and understand the content area for which they will have instructional responsibility.
- Assessment: Candidates understand and use varied assessments to inform instruction, evaluate, and ensure student learning.
- Instruction: Candidates plan and deliver effective instruction that advances the learning of each individual student.
- Learning Environment: Candidates create learning environments that promote high levels of learning and achievements for all students.
- Collaboration and Communication: Candidates collaborate and communicate with students, parents, families, and other educators, administrators, and the community to support student learning.
- Professional Responsibility, Growth, and Reflection: Through reflection, candidates assume responsibility for professional growth, performance, and involvement as individuals and as members of a learning community.
Cross-listed Courses Accepted for Education Credit
Africana Studies AFST 10000. Intro to Africana Studies [AH, C,HSS] Communications COMD 14500. Language Development in Children [HSS] COMM 15200. Public Speaking [AH] History HIST 11500. History of Black America [C, HSS] Philosophy PHIL 22300. Philosophy, Culture, and Education [AH] Psychology PSYC 11000. Child & Adolescent Development [HSS] PSYC 32700. Developmental Psyc:Theory & Research [W] PSYC 32700L. Developmental Psychology Lab Sociology and Anthropology SOAN 20100. Education in Sociocultural Context [C, HSS] SOCI 20900. Inequality in America [HSS] SOCI 21400. Racial & Ethnic Groups in Amer Society [C, HSS] |
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