Education

Degree Awarded: Bachelor of Arts

Lake Erie College offers programs leading to licensure for Early Childhood Education and for Middle Childhood Education. Education programs at Lake Erie College are based on a conceptual framework which embodies Learning, Effective Teaching, and Cognition (LEC). Programs are performance based with a focus on field and clinical experiences to enable the pre-service teachers to become expert practitioners. The programs are designed around the following ten indicators of success: subject matter mastery, student learning, working with a diversity of learners, planning instruction, developing instructional strategies, creating learning environments, learning effective communication skills, assessing students’ performance, developing as a professional, and working with parents/family members, school colleagues, and community members.

Pre-service teachers are expected to demonstrate evidence of dedication to helping children grow and develop a love of learning and an expansive curiosity. Pre-service teachers are required to have a liberal arts foundation in order to acquire a broad based repertoire of knowledge and to encourage critical thinking skills and dispositions that will enable them to excite their students to become lifelong learners.

It is to those ends, and to meet the licensure requirements of the State of Ohio, that the College’s programs have been designed. The State of Ohio has reciprocity with thirty-six states. Since the specifics of teacher licensure vary from state to state, there is sufficient similarity so that Ohio licensure may satisfy even those states where there is no reciprocity agreement. Lake Erie College students pass culminating tests for licensure in the upper quartile of the state with 100% of recent completers passing the tests. All educational programs are subject to review by the Ohio Department of Education and may require periodic adjustments.

Requirements for the Major:

Requirements for the Early Childhood Education Major:
65 semester credits including:
EDC 300 Ohio History (2 SH)
EDE 301 Early Childhood Field Experience I (2 SH)
EDE 303 Foundations of Education (3 SH)
EDE 304 Child Development and Learning (3 SH)
EDE 307 Fine Arts in Early Childhood Education (3 SH)
EDE 306 Curriculum Development and Implementation in Early Childhood (3 SH)
EDE 308 Family and Community Relations (3 SH)
EDE 309 Introduction to Special Education (3 SH)
EDE 311 Early Childhood Field Experience II (2 SH)
EDC 321 Phonetic Approaches to Reading (3 SH)
EDE 323 Reading and Language Arts in Early Childhood (3 SH)
EDC 324 Diagnosis and Correction of Reading Problems (3 SH)
EDC 340 Education Media and Technology (3 SH)
EDE 400 Early Childhood Field Experience III (2 SH)
EDC 405 Inclusive Strategies for Regular Classrooms (3 SH)
EDE 410 Literature Based Reading (3 SH)
EDE 420 Mathematics in Early Childhood (3 SH)
EDE 422 Social Studies in Early Childhood (3 SH)
EDE 424 Science in Early Childhood (3 SH)
EDE 440-42 Student Teaching Early Childhood (9 SH)
EDE 443 Project and Seminar in Student Teaching Early Childhood (3 SH)

Requirements for the Middle Childhood Education Major:

56-58 semester credits including:

EDC 300 Ohio History (2 SH)
EDC 321 Phonetic Approaches to Reading (3 SH)
EDC 340 Educational Media and Technology (3 SH)
EDC 405 Inclusive Strategies for the Regular Classroom (3 SH)
EDP 301 Middle School Field Experience I (2 SH)
EDP 302 School and Society (3 SH)
EDP 304 Integrated Curriculum, Methods, and Assessment (3 SH)
EDP 305 The Middle School (3 SH)
EDP 310 The Pre-Adolescent/Adolescent Learner (3 SH)
EDP 326 Middle Grade Language Arts Methods (3 SH)
EDP 311 Middle School Field Experience II (2 SH)
EDP 400 Middle Childhood Field Experience III (2 SH)
EDP 416 Reading in the Content Area (3 SH)
EDP 440-42 Student Teaching Middle Childhood (9 SH)
EDP 443 Project and Seminar Middle Childhood Student Teaching (3 SH)

Plus required methods courses for concentrations (choose two concentrations)

EDP 318 Survey of Math Concepts (3 SH)

and

EDP 420 Middle Grade Mathematic Methods (3 SH)
EDP 422 Middle Grade Social Studies Methods (3 SH)
EDP 424 Middle Grade Science Methods (3 SH)

(Requirements for licensure also include two areas of concentration)