Ohio Wesleyan has been educating teachers for more than 100 years. This experience confirms our belief that the most creative and effective teachers are prepared at strong liberal arts colleges such as ours. Our program emphasizes a solid theoretical base and practical experience. From the first course onward, Education candidates learn about the responsibilities and rewards of their profession by working directly with children in area schools, community centers, and in Ohio Wesleyan’s Early Childhood Center, a laboratory pre-school program.

Ohio Wesleyan offers programs preparing students for teacher licensure at the early childhood, elementary school, middle school, and high school levels. Candidates working toward the Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, Special Education, or Integrated Science license pursue an OWU major in Education. Candidates pursuing either Multi-age or Adolescent to Young Adult (secondary) licenses will major in another department at Ohio Wesleyan and minor in Education.

Learning Outcomes for Teacher Candidates

We believe that becoming a competent, committed, professional teacher for a diverse democratic society requires the following knowledge, skills, and dispositions:

1) knowledge of human development, motivation, and learning, as well as, the individual and contextual factors which guide one’s ability to develop instruction that is appropriate for all students.

2) knowledge of classroom organization, management, and curriculum, and the ability to design, implement and manage the learning environment in ways that support active student learning and independence. 

3) knowledge of a variety of instructional strategies and materials, including technology, that encourage students’ problem-solving and critical thinking and the ability to select and implement instructional strategies that account for and adapt to all contexts, learners, and content.

4) knowledge of a variety of assessments strategies that are embedded in instruction and the ability to use formative and summative assessments to monitor and evaluate student learning, to communicate assessment information to all stakeholders, and to inform one’s own teaching.

5) commitment to teaching as a viable, honorable profession.

6) commitment to the importance of fostering collaborative relationships with colleagues, families and    the larger community.

7) commitment to the importance of improving one’s efficacy as it relates to student  learning. 

8) commitment to the necessity for ensuring that democratic ideals for a multicultural society are the foundation of all teaching and learning.

9) commitment to the importance of engaging in reflective practice and lifelong professional development.

 

Ohio Wesleyan’s programs lead to the following State of Ohio teacher licenses:

 

1.  Early Childhood License: Prekindergarten to grade three