Bachelor of Science - Education - Middle Childhood

Teach Grades 4-9! Middle school students are incredibly diverse. They can be profound, absurd, honest, juvenile and everything in between. Their writing and conversations reveal wisdom, curiosity, interest, emotion, passion, deep understanding and free-thinking energy. A middle childhood license in Ohio allows graduates to teach two content areas and reading in grades 4-9. If students are seeking challenges, opportunities to make a difference, and a rewarding career then join Findlay's Middle Childhood program! 

Students in the Middle Childhood program take the Middle Childhood Education core classes and choose two content areas that they would like to teach classes in. The core classes teach methodologies and introductory practices for teaching subject matter. The content areas they choose will determine which methods and content courses they take as well as in which areas they complete their student teaching.

Education majors in the first year of the program are must complete 10 hours of observation in a classroom as part of their class work. Students also participate in the University of Findlay and Van Buren Experience, a tutoring and reading program with one of our partnership schools. During the second year as an education major students participate in a 6-week field experience from the start of school until the lunch hour and in other professional development such as: school board meetings, faculty professional development seminars at the district or building level, Individualized Education Planning (IEP) meetings or attending parent-teacher conferences. The Methods Field Experience block is conducted during the third year. Students will be in their assigned schools for 6-weeks from the beginning of the school day to the end of the school day. Teacher-candidates complete their 16-week student-teacher experience during their fourth year as an education major.