Teacher
Education may be chosen only as a second major by
students whose primary major is in the field in which
Case has teacher licensure programs approved by the
Ohio Department of Education. Ohio teacher licensure
can be attained by those undergraduate students who
complete the requirements for licensure candidates
specified within their content field (primary major)
and a second major in Teacher Education, which
comprises 35 credit hours in professional education,
12 hours taken at Case and 23 hours taken at John
Carroll University.
Adolescence/Young Adult teacher licensure programs are
available in integrated language arts (English major),
integrated social studies (history major), integrated
mathematics (mathematics major), life sciences
(biology major), and physical sciences (chemistry or
physics major). Multi-age licensure programs are
available in French and Spanish. For information
concerning specific content requirements in the
respective programs, turn to departmental listings in
English, History, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry,
Physics, and Modern Languages and Literatures.
A 3.0
grade point average in all professional education
courses and a cumulative overall GPA of 2.5 must be
maintained to be recommended for Ohio teacher
licensure. A GPA of 2.7 is required in teaching
content area. Completion of the program does not
guarantee award of licensure. The Ohio Department of
Education also requires that candidates receive
passing scores on the PLT (Principles of Learning and
Teaching) and Content Area subtests of the Praxis
II examinations, as well as fingerprinting and
criminal background check by the Ohio Bureau of
Criminal Identification. Once licensed, teachers can
apply to transfer Ohio licensure to over 40 states.
Individual state departments of education can be
contacted for reciprocity details.
Teacher
licensure programs are also offered in art education
and music education at the undergraduate (Bachelor of
Science) and graduate (Master of Arts) levels, and
school speech-language pathology personnel licensure
can also be attained at the graduate level. For
further information, turn to the departmental listing
for Art History and Art, Music, and Communication
Sciences.
Dr. William Bauer (Music
Education) (216) 368-2431, e-mail: william.bauer@case.edu
