Education

Teacher Education Program
The 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)
  
  

What Students are Saying

About the Education Program

Defiance College has a rich teacher education heritage. For more than 100 years, the College has prepared and graduated teachers who not only teach, but become principals and superintendents as well. 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. In addition to exceeding state minimum requirements, the program has many other strengths..