Education Program

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What is Education?

For people who have a passion for learning, and would enjoy helping those in their formative educational years, the teaching profession is an excellent career path. Good teachers look for the potential in all learners and find success in helping students succeed.

Walsh’s Education major is a Teacher Preparation Program for students who have a desire to work in this field.

What type of career can I look forward to with an Education degree?

Our graduates are prepared to teach Pre-K through Grade 12 age groups. Walsh students can choose from a variety of specialization options such as Early Childhood Education, Adolescent to Young Adult Language Arts and Middle Childhood Education Math. Teachers can work in public, private and parochial educational systems.

We also offer K-12 licensure programs for Physical Education and Intervention Specialists.

Why is Walsh’s Education Major Unique?

Three-Tiered Approach. We built our program around three important principles: Judeo-Christian ideals, service learning and respect for diversity.
National Accreditation. Walsh’s Teacher Preparation Program is accredited by the National Council of Accreditation for Teacher Education (NCATE). Each licensure program also is nationally accredited by its Specialized Professional Association (SPA), which creates teaching standards for specific content areas and grade levels.
More Classroom Experience. Structured field and technology experiences, beginning with the first education course, get our students in the classroom faster for experiential learning.
Student Teaching. Our seniors stay in the same school system for both their pre-clinical and clinical experiences.
Responsible Best Practices. Students are exposed to a variety of teaching models, curriculum designs and diverse communities.This gives them a “toolbox” of best practice strategies they can draw from as a professional and allows them find solutions that are best suited for a particular setting and/or student.
Preparation for the Future. To provide our students with opportunities for service learning and field experience, we partner with community schools and programs. All of these experiences help build the knowledge and skills that students need as professionals in today’s educational workforce. It also prepares them for Ohio’s Resident Educator license exam.

Generally speaking, what courses will I need to take?

All of our course objectives align with the Division of Education Candidate Proficiencies and Conceptual Framework, as well as the Ohio Educator Standards.

Our Education program’s four core classes include:

School and Society
Individuals with Exceptionalities
Instructional Technology
Educational Psychology

Throughout the course of study, students also complete developmental and professional E-Portfolios. They start building these in their first education class and complete them in their final Clinical Practice (Student Teaching) seminar.

What experiential learning or internship opportunities are available with this major?

All students complete structured in-classroom training in the form of field and clinical experiences (student teaching) with our school-district partners.

We also pair many of our students with instructors teaching classes on-site at a school or agency for special partnerships and field experiences such as:

The Canton City “Friends” Mentoring Program.
The Outreach Enrichment Program through the Diocese of Youngstown housed at Our Lady of Peace School.
The STARS tutoring and mentorship program: a long-term partnership with Mercy Medical Center Outreach, the Diocese of Youngstown and the Early Childhood Alliance.

Whom can I contact for more information?

Jeannie DeFazio, Ph.D.
Chair, Division of Education
Phone: 330-490-7332
E-mail: jdefazio@walsh.edu