Education

Teachers do more than just teach. In every subject, at every grade level, and in every administrative duty, teachers rise to the continual challenge of helping students make learning their own passion as they expand their knowledge and refine their skills.

Teachers change the world, living themselves into the lives of students who will take away not only what they have learned and use it, but also who they have learned to be.

The Teacher Education Program at Defiance College has a rich heritage. For more than 100 years, the College has prepared and graduated teachers who not only teach, but also become principals and superintendents. The success of Defiance College education graduates rests in part on the rapport established with area schools and the caring, personal attention given to each student by the experienced faculty.

At Defiance College, future educators find programs suited to their interests and abilities--early childhood education, adolescent integrated mathematics, visual arts, or something else.  Through the Hench Autism Studies Program, students may even minor in Autism studies and receive training on effective strategies for successful integration of persons with autism into education, vocational, family and community settings.

Get ready to change the world one student at a time.

Teacher Education Program

Defiance College offers the following majors leading to teacher licensure:

• Early Childhood (age 3 through grade 3)
  
  
• Middle Childhood (grades 4 through 9)
  - for two fields selected from Reading/Language Arts,Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies
  
  
• Adolescent to Young Adult
  
  
  • Integrated Language Arts (grades 7 through 12)
    - valid for teaching reading, English, speech and journalism
    
    
  • Integrated Mathematics (grades 7 through 12)
    
    
  • Integrated Social Studies (grades 7 through 12)
    - valid for teaching history, political science, geography, psychology/sociology, and economics
    
    
  • Life Science (grades 7 through 12)
    -valid for teaching biology and the life sciences
    
    
  • Life Science and Chemistry (grades 7 through 12)
    - valid for teaching the life sciences and chemistry
    
    
• Multi-Age
  
  
  • Health Education (age 3 through grade 12)
  • Physical Education (age 3 through grade 12)
  • Visual Arts (pre-K through grade 12)
  
  

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