Education Program

Prepare for professional teaching license exams using research-based best practices in an accredited education degree program at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. The undergraduate program curriculum integrates Catholic identity with the teaching environment to help you learn how to educate, form, and evangelize students and Disciples of Christ.

Choose from the following CAEP accredited concentration areas for Ohio state licensure:

• Primary (P-5) Education
• Intervention Specialist (K-12)
• Primary (P-5) and Intervention Specialist (K-12)
• Middle Childhood (4 – 9) Math, Language Arts and Reading, or Social Studies (choose two areas of concentration)
• Adolescent Young Adult (7 – 12 )Integrated English Language Arts
• Adolescent Young Adult (7 – 12 )Integrated Mathematics
• Adolescent Young Adult (7 – 12 )Integrated Social Studies

For more information about meeting the educational requirements for licensure in states other than Ohio please see the professional licensure disclosures.

Answer the call with Catholic morals and values

With the Education Program at Franciscan University of Steubenville, future teachers are formed through a curriculum rooted in best teaching practices and illuminated by the Catholic faith. They then go forth to provide their own students with an integrated education, helping them grow intellectually and personally.

Here are just a few other ways Franciscan’s education bachelor’s degree program stands out from the rest:

Financial aid and scholarships:

• From federal aid to student loan programs, many options are available to make your Catholic education major affordable.
• Visit the Franciscan Office of Financial Aid for information on the Teach Grant, Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program, and more for future educators.

Hands-on learning:

• Discover the art of teaching — how to present content, how to connect and motivate your students, and how culture affects what happens in the classroom — with valuable field experience, including international and service-learning opportunities.
• You will observe and assist teachers at local Catholic schools and in other education settings, and eventually student teach to learn and practice the basics of planning curriculums, assessing students, using educational technology, and developing effective and age-appropriate teaching techniques.

Undergraduate research:

• Research opportunities are integrated into the course work. Through embedded field experiences in upper-level education courses, candidates engage in applied research as they complete various performance-based projects. These projects enable the candidates to design & implement instructional plans based on assessment results, research-supported best practices, and the individual needs of their learners.

Experienced instructors:

• Previously responsible for the formation and nurturing of students in a variety of classroom environments, Franciscan education faculty members are outstanding models of professionalism and service, and are committed to lifelong learning and constant conversion of the Catholic faith.
• They know what it means to plan, design, and execute assessment and instruction for individual learning outcomes while working with administrators, parents, and the community to provide the universal right of education to each individual student they serve.

Students graduating with an education bachelor’s degree from Franciscan University in Ohio are highly sought after for education jobs in public, Catholic, parochial, private, charter, STEM, missionary, online, and home schools in Ohio, across the country, and around the world.

Potential Job Titles

• Lead Teacher
• Curriculum Director
• Special Education Director
• Technology Integration Specialist
• Educational Consultant
• Instructional Designer
• Instructional Coach
• Private Tutor

View the Education Program on the Undergraduate Catalog

DataSTARS is the result of work done out of a grant called: Preparing Teachers to Use a Variety of Evidence-Based Reading Strategies & Tools in the Science of Reading through Creation of a Shared Virtual Database: A Collaboration between Pre-service and In-service Educators – Applied in Virtual & F2F Environments.

• This virtual database houses demonstrations and tutorial videos of reading strategy evidence-based practices (EBPs). These EBPs can be implemented in the classroom. The artifacts shared within the database can be used as teaching tools in the K-12 classroom to improve literacy.
• The work through this project presented opportunities for authentic partnerships with school partners to occur in order to promote purposeful collaboration between preservice and in-service educators at the P-20 level.
• An objective of this work is to improve access for struggling and ALL learners with high quality literacy instruction, to be shared with school partners.
• Another objective is to provide both preservice and in-service educators the opportunity to share inquiry into common reading literacy challenges with the goal of improving literacy results for ALL learners.
• This link will take you to a padlet that showcases Virtue Projects that were created by pre-service teachers. This Virtue Project Padlet provides both pre-service and in-service educators the opportunity to analyze a book and link it to a virtue. Some of these lessons have also incorporated a DataSTARS strategy. You can access the Virtue Project here.

Learn more here.