Integrated Language Arts Faculty
- Kristine Pytash, Ph.D.
Professor and ADED Program Coordinator | kpytash@kent.edu | 330-672-2580 - Elizabeth Testa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor | etesta@kent.edu | 330-672-0647
College of Education and Human Services
Harish Yadav is an English language is an English language teaching facilitator and mentor teacher at Directorate of Education GNCT in Delhi, India. He is one of the Fulbright TEA scholars in the Fall 2023 Cohort at Kent State University.The program hosted at Kent State offered him the opportunity to develop his facilitating skills and allowed him to focus more on expanding teachers’ soft skills in his mentee schools. During the six weeks spent in Ohio, he interacted with both faculty members at Kent State and Fulbright exchange teachers from 20 different countries.He enjoyed the exchang...
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The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 6, in the University Library, Second Floor, Urban Conference Room, on the Kent Campus to consider the recommendations of the standing committees, proposed personnel actions and new business. Trustees will retire into executive session at 8:30 a.m. to consider specific topics as provided under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” The roll call vote for this session will occur in public in the Urban Conference Room. On March 6, the meeting of the full Board of Trustees will be held in...
Overview of the program
Below is a description of the required courses and the year/semester in which you will study them. For more detailed information about the program, please contact Dr. Kristy Pytash (kpytash@kent.edu).
Program Highlights
- Kent Core Requirements
- Seminars
- Middle Childhood Education Courses
- Students select two concentrations from the following: Reading/Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies.
- 12 hours of teaching reading
- 3 years of field experiences in urban, rural, and small town schools
- Cohorts of students and faculty teams
- Technology rich curriculum
- "Blocks" of interdisciplinary classes
Applying for Advanced Study
Students admitted to the College of Education may select Middle Childhood Education (MCED) as their major. Applicants to advanced study in MCED will be reviewed by the Middle Childhood Education faculty toward the end of the sophomore year. In order to manage enrollment and provide a high quality program, the faculty will select the most qualified applicants based on the following criteria:
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