Art Education - Miami University - Oxford

Art Education from Miami University - Oxford is a Campus Bachelor Teaching degree that prepares you for a Education career. What is Art Education? The art education program prepares you for licensure as an art teacher in Ohio Public Schools from pre-kindergarten through grade 12. Key components of this major include classes taught by art professors that are specifically geared toward teaching art to children. What are the features of Miami's program? Broad exposure Miami's art department, accredited through the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, brings together students of varied interests and talents: students who are studying to be practicing artists, students who are preparing to be art teachers, and students who are concentrating on art history. Often, art classes are composed of students from each of these three areas. This enriches and broadens exposure to different points of view. Extensive classroom experience Our teacher education program gives you more classroom experiences than most programs at other universities. Early in your second year, you get a feel for teaching by spending time in school classrooms. In methodology of teaching classes, you spend a quarter of the term in schools, working directly with teachers. And during the semester of student teaching, you are regularly visited by a Miami student-teaching supervisor for consultation and guidance. Professional education sequence Teaching requires such knowledge as the characteristics of learners, social structures of schools, families and communities, assessment techniques, classroom practices, law, statistics, electronic support systems, curriculum, and resources. In the professional education sequence, you investigate this knowledge and combine it with extensive experiences in a variety of schools. As you progress through the professional education sequence, you spend increasing time with experienced teachers in a variety of urban, suburban, and rural schools. Your experiences will range from helping individual students in the schools to being responsible for an entire classroom of students. Teaching licensure Accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, NCATE, and the State of Ohio Department of Education Teacher Licensure Standards, the program is in compliance with guidelines from Ohio's Academic Content Standards K-12 Fine Arts and the National Art Education Association. View more details on Miami University - Oxford, OH . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Teaching courses.