Transition to Teaching - Early Childhood Education (Ohio)

This program is open to candidates pursuing P-3 Early Childhood Education licensure in Ohio.

Indiana Wesleyan University offers a 24-credit hour accelerated, Post-Baccalaureate program providing the pedagogy and clinical experiences necessary for adult learners to pursue teaching as a career in grades P-3. The coursework in this program is offered online; field experiences and clinical practice in P-3 classrooms are embedded into the courses.

Upon complete of this program, candidates should be able to:

Demonstrate professional, moral, and ethical behaviors, in the early childhood field and articulate related Christ-like principles.
Demonstrate competence in the following School of Educational Leadership's dispositional domains: Communication, Critical Thinking, Human Interaction, Teacher Leadership, and Professionalism.
Analyze how family and social influences impact the basic characteristics and needs of early learners.
Create developmentally appropriate, challenging, and supportive learning and literacy environments for early learners.
Build positive, mutually respectful relationships with families and communities.
Identify and implement a broad repertoire of developmentally effective assessment tools and approaches that reflect the goals and benefits of assessment when documenting young children's learning and literacy.
Implement current technologies in instruction and assessment for early learners.
Demonstrate professional self-reflection to promote positive learning and behavioral outcomes for each young child.
Implement the central concepts, inquiry tools, and structures of content knowledge and resources to build developmentally appropriate and meaningful curriculum in all content areas.
Demonstrate ethical standards and early childhood professional guidelines.
Advocate for the developmental needs of young children and the early childhood profession.

Admission Requirements

All applicants must have:

Earned a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited university or college with a grade point average of at least 2.75 on a 4.0 point scale from an institution of higher education.
A criminal history background check that meets School of Educational Leadership guidelines.
Minimum scores of "3" or higher on a required Candidate Disposition Assessment.
Passing Praxis Core Tests or Approved Alternative scores (as established by the Ohio Department of Higher Education) for reading, writing, and math. Alternative scores options include:
- ACT with a score of at least 24 based on Math, Reading, Grammar, and Science
- SAT with a score of at least 1100 based on Critical Reading and Math
- GRE with a score of at least 1100 based on Verbal and Quantitative
- Anyone with a Master’s Degree from a regionally accredited institution is exempt

Program Requirements

All Transition to Teaching Early Childhood Ohio students will be required to provide passing scores of the
state's licensing content test(s) prior to their methods course (EDUT-534) in the program or will be administratively withdrawn.

Student Teaching

All candidates must complete a full-time student teaching experience as determined by the state of Ohio.
All core course work prior to student teaching must be completed with a minimum grade of no less than "B-" in each core course to be eligible to student teach.
All placements for student teaching will be made by the Office of Clinical Experiences. Candidates are not to contact any school or attempt to secure their own student teaching assignment at any time.
Removal from a student teaching experience may result in the candidate being permanently withdrawn from the program. A grade of "No Credit" will be issued for the student teaching course

Completion Requirements

To be eligible to be recommended for licensure a candidate must:

Complete all course requirements with a minimum GPA of 3.00 and no grade lower than a "B-."
Complete admission, mid-program review, and program completion gateways.
Pass all clinical experiences with a grade of "Credit."
Pass the Foundations of Reading Assessment.
Pass the Pedagogical Knowledge Assessment.

TTT Early Childhood - Program of Study

Core Courses - Early Childhood Education (Ohio)

EDUT-504	Early Childhood Licensure in Ohio	1
EDUT-514	Foundations of Early Childhood Development and Learning Environments	2
EDUT-542	The Science of Teaching Reading	3
EDUT-524	Parents, Families, and Community Partnerships	2
EDUT-522	Foundations in Phonics and Language Structure for Early Childhood	3
EDUT-532	Reading and Writing in Emergent Literacy	3
EDUT-552	Reading and Writing Assessment in Early Childhood	3
EDUT-534	Early Childhood Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, and Management	4
EDUT-582	Student Teaching in Early Childhood	3
Total Credit Hours:		24