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Nurture Young Learners as an Elementary School Teacher in Ohio
Achieve your goal of becoming a life-changing elementary school teacher in Ohio with Franklin’s Primary Education program. In the Primary Education program, you’ll learn teaching strategies to position your students to be successful lifelong learners.
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B.S. Primary Education Program Overview
Develop teaching skills to excel in primary education
Plant the seeds of curiosity and create lifelong learners. Through the coursework and practical experiences woven throughout Franklin’s Primary Education program, you’ll be prepared for the high-paced, interactive and rewarding world of a preschool, kindergarten or elementary school teacher.
Through your Professional Education Component Courses, you’ll learn critical skills every teacher needs to succeed – from classroom management and lesson planning to teaching strategies and learning assessment, you’ll build a strong foundation for your teaching career.
Your “methods block” coursework hones your knowledge in key areas for primary school teachers. To ensure you emerge from the program prepared and well-rounded, you’ll be challenged to incorporate your learnings across several courses into one integrated unit plan.
In addition, to bolster your performance on the Ohio Assessment for Educators (OAE) Foundations of Reading assessment, a necessary component of Primary Education Licensure, the program contains a sequence of four courses concentrated on reading instruction.
Moreover, upon your enrollment, you’ll be issued a free Taskstream account to keep you on track as you work to complete the requirements for your degree and intended licensure. With Taskstream, you’ll be able to see when important documentation, like background clearance check information, has been received. You’ll also be able to use Taskstream as a gateway to important information like clinical field placement information and course resources.
Learn by doing with immersive learning opportunities woven throughout the program
You’ll hit the ground running at Franklin, by starting field experiences with your very first term. Based on your preferences, you’ll be paired with an experienced cooperating teacher to observe teaching methods, ask meaningful questions and provide assistance when requested. By taking part in these clinical field placements each term you are enrolled, you’ll be placed in different school environments for opportunities to diversify your experiences and build your professional network.
Through clinical field placements and student teaching experiences, you’ll benefit from partnerships between Franklin’s School of Education and more than 200 partner school districts that serve Ohio’s rural areas as well as suburbs, cities and towns.
The hands-on, full-time student teaching experience in your last term will enable you to work alongside a cooperating teacher to put into practice the knowledge, skills and dispositions that you have developed throughout the course of the program.
Build the fundamentals necessary to be a successful teacher
All education students, regardless of intended licensure area, must successfully complete 33 hours of Professional Education Component Courses. While these courses can be taken at Franklin or transferred in, this coursework lays the foundation for future studies by providing a roadmap for success as an education major. Through these classes, you’ll build a toolbox of skills to become a teacher who is able to tailor your instruction to meet the needs of your students. Course topics include lesson planning, classroom technology, classroom management and teaching strategies.
Gain in-demand skills that enable you to leverage technology to engage learners
Technology impacts every industry and every aspect of our lives. For this reason, effective teachers need to be able to integrate technology into the classroom as a tool to facilitate student learning and enhance communication with stakeholders in the learning process – like parents/guardians, school administrators and the community.
Franklin’s Technology in the Classroom course, a required course for all education students, is aligned with International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards. ISTE, a global organization dedicated to using the power of technology to transform teaching and learning, and the group’s standards are a framework for innovation in education put in place to help you to become a teacher who can prepare students to thrive in a connected and ever-changing world.
In this unique course, you’ll master Edmodo, Google Classroom, Kahoot!, Quizlet, Remind 101 and other emerging digital tools to help you with classroom management and polling, photo and video sharing, discussion and publishing, and social media and communication. You’ll learn how to integrate technology that places student in the center of the learning environment. You’ll have the opportunity to demonstrate your learning through hands-on assignments like teaching a lesson to your peers using various tech tools.
Focus in on your licensure area with methods block coursework
Franklin's Primary Education program contains a methods block, a specialized set of courses that get at the heart of your particular teaching goal. These courses focus on teaching in specific content areas – language arts, mathematics, social studies or science. Moreover, the coursework in this block provides multiple opportunities for you to teach in front of a classroom and be provided with feedback to fuel your progress along the way.
Take advantage of flexible transfer options and earn an affordable education degree
Whether you’ve earned an associate degree in education or in a teaching content area, Franklin’s transfer-friendly Primary Education program provide a flexible and affordable path to a high-quality degree. In addition to maximized transfer and our low per credit hour tuition rate, Franklin also provides free books and eliminates fees for field placements and student teaching that are common at other universities.
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