BGSU College of Education & Human Development: Q&A with the Dean

Hello everyone, good afternoon. We're watching those numbers climb so I'm going to give it a couple more seconds.

Welcome to our Virtual Presidents Day event. We are currently hosting Dean. She knew from the College of Education and Human Development. My name is David Johnston. I work in the Office of Admissions and I will be your lead moderator today. I'm going to be in the chat for most of this presentation, helping my colleagues answer questions throughout your presentation and collecting some good questions for Q&A that will host at the end. Right now just to get yourself familiar with the chat.

Whether you've already joined us in a session like this before or not, please go ahead and introduce yourself with your name, your hometown, maybe what program you're interested in studying in the College of Education and Human Development, and let us know if you've visited our beautiful campus here in Bowling Green yet or not. Or if you're still trying to visit. Still looking to get an opportunity to see what it looks like here.

Um, like I said throughout the presentation, if you have questions about anything, put them in the chat and either will answer them immediately, or hold on to them when we do a live Q&A at the end of the presentation. Now I'm going to pass it over to Dean Doncha new for her presentation and a brief introduction of herself.

Thanks very much, David and welcome to all of you. I am broadcasting from a snowy Bowling Green from my son's former bedroom. He's actually a junior now at Bowling Green State University, so a special shout out to the parents who are out there. I've been in your shoes as well and I've actually been in the perspective students shoes as well. Just a little bit about myself. I'm in alumn from Bowling Green State University. I grew up in the Bowling Green community and did my undergraduate.

Work at Bowling Green and I was part of a legacy. Actually my two grandmothers are alumni from Bowling Green State University. It was then Bowling Green Normal School. So they graduated in 1916 and 1918. My dad went to Bowling Green State University as a on the GI Bill. after World War Two. So he is was an alumni as well and I have three older sisters and we all went to Bowling Green State University.

And graduated from what is now the College of Education and Human Development. The college that I am so proud to serve as Dean and so when it was time for my son to go to college, you can imagine I didn't think he had any other choice. I have said I think Orange and Brown runs in our in our very genetic code and so I am always happy to talk about Bowling Green State University. I'm happy to talk about our college because I I believe in what we do here and I've seen the difference that it can make.

In peoples lives first hand in my family and in all of the other students that I've had the pleasure to work with here. So my purpose today is to give you an overview of the college we are going to talk about, the structure of the college, all of our programs also want to share some of the ways that we try to make sure that you feel like you belong here. We all know that people are able to succeed best in environments where they feel like they are welcome. They are supported.

So I'll talk about some of the structures we have in place to ensure that if you end up at BGSU and in the College of Education and Human Development, you'll feel like you belong here and then. We'll talk about some of the ways that we try to make sure that our students also are able to stand out. What can you do at BGSU that's different from maybe some of the other programs that you might be considering? And then finally, you know, going far, you'll be with us for an undergraduate career of. I'm sure your parents are hoping that's going to be a four year commitment.

And then what comes next? What can you do with the BGSU degree? What happens from the College of Education and Human Development and what do we do to help you prepare for that?

And then we'll talk a little bit about our majors and some of the many programs. Some of them are probably familiar and obvious to you, and there may be things. Sometimes you don't even know you can major in that, so will give you a brief overview of that as well, and leave time for questions. So again, I'm really delighted to have you all here today and use the chat if you have questions along the way. I work with a great team who will interrupt me if it's a question that needs to be answered right away and don't hesitate. This presentation is all about you, so we want to make sure that you're getting everything you need.

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so a little bit about BGSU and the structure of the University, you'll see we have numerous colleges at Bowling Green State University and the College of Education and Human Development is one of them. We also have Arts and Sciences business. We have a deciding student program so if you're not entirely sure what you want to do, there's a space for you here as well. There's a Firelands campus we have Health and Human services, musical arts, and the school, the college.

Of architecture and applied engineering. So we have a lot of different options here, but the one that I know best and that's nearest and dearest to my heart is the College of Education and Human Development. We have 3500 students, about 3000 of those are graduate students. We have 12 majors and we're divided into 4 undergraduate schools. The School of Teaching and Learning. That's where most of our general education.

Teacher preparation programs are housed. We have family and consumer science that includes human development and family studies and some other things that you may not even know exist as majors. There's human movement, sport and leisure studies, and counseling, and special education.

You can tell I'm getting used to my clicker here, so again, you can see within each of those schools in the School of Teaching and Learning we have the inclusive Early Childhood program. It was the first dual licensure early childhood program in the state of Ohio, an one of the few in the country. So in the inclusive Early Childhood program, students earn both a general education and special education license. That license will now be in preschool through 5th grade.

The state of Ohio changed their licensure requirements, So what used to be a PK3 will now be a PK5. We also have our middle childhood education program, adolescents and young adult which since the seven through 12 kind of the high school preparation we have workforce, education and development. That's where we find the business and marketing communication, family and consumer science programs. And then we have world language and all of those are educator preparation licensure programs.

We also have a family and consumer science. I mentioned the human development and family studies. We have fashion merchandising and product development and interior design. All of those have similar to the teaching and learning courses or programs. They all have a professional component to it. We have internships across all of our programs and the one thing that holds all of our programs together is the extent to which we are professional college.

And all of our programs are focused on some kind of professional preparation in the School of Human Movement, Sport and leisure study. We have exercise science that is the track most frequently taken by those people who are interested in going on to physical therapy. You also see people from occupational therapy who are interested in that. You learn a lot about how, how the body works and what muscles are required in. So it's great preparation for that. We also have students who go on from exercise science to become personal trainers and do a lot of other really interesting things related to sportin.

And movement.

Our one teacher licensure program in this school is physical education and health education. It's another dual licensure program. So graduates from that program come out with two teaching licenses. We have sport management and this is where you become familiar with what it means to be a sport agent or to run a sport facility or to manage a sport programs so that one has a lot of really interesting professional tracks we have.

Alumni from that program who work for the Cleveland baseball team who work, go on and become athletic manager or athletic directores in schools or at universities. So it's got a great reputation as well. Tourism, hospitality and event management is has a really global focus and we've got some really innovative programs. It if you're interested in travel, it's a great great major because it gives you an opportunity to think about what it means not only to travel.

But how do you create those quality experiences that last people lifetime? And then in counseling and special education we have our intervention specialist. It is also a dual licensure, so graduates from that program received both the mild, moderate and moderate to intensive teacher licensure program. So that's kind of the overview of all of our majors. But what most students who are thinking about coming to BGSU want to know is what does it actually feel like to be here?

And I'm going to apologize. You're going to hear dogs in the background. That's one of the things that working from home, and every once in awhile I have two dogs. One, they're both doodle mixes and they barge in and make a lot of commotion in the back. So I'll apologize in advance for them.

So what does it mean to book belong here? The feeling of being a home away from home. That is what BGSU students say about what it feels like to be here. We, you know, the slide talks about. We smile, we hold doors. We welcome you with open wings. We really consider ourselves part of a family. Here we try really hard in the College of Education and Human Development to make sure that our students feel like they are part of something.

On our opening days I run around to all of the programs to greet everybody. Personally, the associate Deans and I introduce ourselves, and then we invited all of the new students to come to the Little Red Schoolhouse, which sits at the middle of our campus. It is a part of the College of Education and Human Development, Bowling Green State University started as a normal school, which was a teacher training college, and in 1976 one of my predecessors.

David also brought a little red schoolhouse from Norwalk, OH. He had it disassembled, brick by brick, put on a flatbed truck, and reassembled at the heart of BGSU's campus to remind everybody that we started as a normal school and that teaching and learning. Really, regardless of your major, is sort of at the core of what we do here at BGSU, and so I think it's important for students in the College of Education and Human Development to know that history. To know that you are part of BGSU's legacy, you're part of the founding college.

And that means something. It means something to me and I want it to mean something to all of the students in our program. And so we like to make sure that you feel like you belong from the very first day that you are starting your academic career at BGSU, and so in front of the little Red Schoolhouse. We give you a T shirt that says I am ADHD and that helps. So I am the College of Education, human development. It helps me recognize you when you're walking around campus. It helps you recognize.

Each other, so you'll meet not only first year students who are wearing that shirt, but students from all the other years as well. And we have the original Bell of the Little Red Schoolhouse, and students are asked to bring their way into their career at Bowling Green State University and in the College of Education and Human Development. By ringing it loud. I like to make sure that all of the other colleges across campus here are Bell. They usually here at 600 times because we want to make sure that every student is coming into the college gets a chance to make a little noise.

And announce themselves to campus so it's important to me that you feel like you belong and we want to set that tone from the very beginning from your very first day on campus.

From there we do lots of other things to ensure that you can be successful and that you feel like you belong to something. So we have student support. We have classrooms, labs and resources we have learning communities, student organizations, and student ambassadors. I'll talk a little bit more about each one of these things, but all of these are intended to provide ways for you at multiple levels to interact with one another to interact with me, to interact with other faculty and staff in the college.

And to interact with one another.

So student support. BGSU has a really unique element to it. It's something that we is still a new initiative for us and we with the under the leadership of President Rogers. You may have been hearing about our life design coaches. We recognize that one Green State University that a college education is a significant investment and it.

Can't be, it shouldn't be a series of courses that you're just checking off to get to a degree. If you know anything about education, the name John Dewey will be familiar to you. John Dewey was one of the United States first educational philosophers, and he talked a lot about lifelong learning about the importance of learning, having meaning, an relevance to what comes after. It shouldn't be an isolated experience. It's not about passing a test.

Or getting a grade. And of course it's about preparing you about educating you to be a citizen to be engaged, to continue to have a productive and happy life, and so our life design coaches help with that. They help to talk through what kinds of goals do you have? What do you want to accomplish, not just in a in a four year time, but what do you want to accomplish in a 15 year time kind of life? Do you want and what kinds of career paths are most likely to get you there? So this is a new but really exciting dimension that we're offering it.

Bowling Green State University and again I think it is something that helps to set BGSU apart from some of our other other universities in the area. You also will have a professional advisor who works with you on the details of the major course, planning resources, referrals. So what does it actually? What do you need to do to be this major? What courses should you take and when you should? When should you take them? Which courses might be really really challenging based on your background and which courses are you know what I'm. I did really well in my high school math class, but.

Yeah, I didn't do as well in writing and so you want to balance those things out. So there's still somebody who helps you to make those decisions to ensure that you can be successful.

And then the probably one of the critical components for any successful academic career is the faculty, and so you will also have faculty mentors and its faculty advisors who work with you and help you understand what the curriculum means. Again, not just as a course requirement. But why is it important for you to know this? How are you ever going to use this when your post BG, when you're out in the world? Why is this content important to you and what can you do with it? What connections are there too?

This content and where you want to go in the future. It also work. They'll give you great advice on career preparation. We almost all of our programs do mock interviews. They bring in professionals from the field, the faculty members set up those opportunities for you to practice those rules. They also are great conduits for job opportunities. It is very often the case that our faculty are the first to know when there are job opportunities coming open because our alumni.

One other people who they know have been through a quality program to work with them, and so we get phone calls, often from people who are working in companies, working in agencies, working in schools, working with professional athletic teams, and they'll say, hey, we've got this job opening. Do you have anybody who might be interested in? Or we've got this opening that we're know that we know is coming? Can you get the word out to students who are graduating this semester or next semester and help us find a really quality candidate for this position?

And so faculty are play a really critical role, not just while you're here at BGSU for your undergraduate degree, but in what comes next for you.

We also have worked really hard at Bowling Green State University and certainly within the college to ensure that we have state of the art facilities. So we have active learning classrooms. Very few of our classrooms. In fact, I can only think of one in the entire college where the chairs are still bolted to the floor, right? They are all built for interactive environments. They're all high tech with multiple screens going so the students can display work at anytime to the people in there.

Group or to the entire class. We've worked really hard to make sure that we have good use of technology. We've learned a lot through covid, and so I think we're going to see even more innovative uses of technology in the years to come because I think faculty like probably all of you have learned to do things like this that we may have used to have done in a face to face environment. Now we're relying on technology and new and really innovative ways. We also have some simulation labs, so we have what's called Immersion Lab.

That right now, our educator preparation program is using, but there are also applications for for all of our other majors where you have an obvious opportunity to sit in a room and do a practice teaching or a practice interview with an avatar and then someone on the other end of that is role playing and challenging you a little bit. And so if you're in the teacher preparation program, you might be in a room in the lab with avatars. Who will say things like, you know, is this going to be on the test? And do I have to know this and what you know?

Why do we have to learn this and all the questions that students often ask? You might have the chance to go in and do a simulation for an interview for a job, or to have a session with a client about managing a sports arena and the kinds of programming that would you would use for that. And so we're trying to use technology and really innovative ways. And that's housed in our Technology Resource Center. And then of course we have the Jerome Library, which is a fabulous space and.

Has become more and more interactive, and so while we still have all of the traditional books that you would find in any library, we also increasingly see the library is this place to build and access knowledge, not just to go to a stack and pull book off the shelf.

We have learning communities so we have two that are specific to the College of Education and Human Development. We have the eco learning community that is a residential learning community. There is a fee attached to that. It's $300 per semester and they do a lot of programming with that.

Learning community, they take trips. They have activities and Patrick Roman is the director of the Eco Learning Committee community and it is designed specifically for education and teaching majors. So they also have some additional opportunities to be out in the field. And the emphasis of that particular learning community is on the importance of culture.

On what it means to teach and learn, and so they're very intentional to make sure that you have extra experiences across all kinds of context. All of our programs have field experience is built in from your first semester. An first year on top of that, if you're really interested in being an immersive experience, you can join the Echo learning community and get even more opportunities to work in community agencies and with students, and even a wider range of context.

I also have the DHT community. It's open to all ADHD students, so it is not specific to education majors. Claire Hoover, who's on this call? If you have a question specific to the ADHD learning community, Claire is a great person to be able to answer those since she's been the director. It also is a residential community and so that means that you not only do programming together, but you also live in the same residence Hall. You have a support system.

I think it's a great way, particularly if this is your first time you came from a smaller high school maybe, and you're a little worried about coming in and making friends easily and making connections. Elearning community is a great way to take a great big University and bring it down to a smaller community where you can get to know people quickly and easily and a lot of learning community members. They remain friends and colleagues and they go through as a cohort together and you really can form some lifelong friendships there.

We also have other opportunities through student organizations. There are over 400 student organizations on campus and more than 20 of those are specific to the Education College of Education and Human Development. This is another great way of taking that great big. There are 18,000 students affiliated with Bowling Green State University at the graduate and undergraduate level. How do you find your place? While a really great way to do it is to join a student organization in something that you're interested in.

You can network with other students. You get leadership experience. You can find a way to do what interests you at Bowling Green State University and so I try to meet with our student organizations on a regular basis. I certainly have regular communication with the leaders of those student organizations 'cause I see them as a great conduit to helping me understand the BGSU student experience and what can we do to help everybody be more successful.

We also have student ambassadors. This isn't a application process we have been working to try and make sure that we have an ambassador for all of our programs, and these ambassadors are among some of our very brightest and best students. The students who represent our programs with enthusiasm and passion. They help with recruiting events. They work. I have different groups who come alumni and friends of the college who come for meetings and I.

Often tap into the ambassadors to help service host for those groups to talk about their programs. If we were on campus, you probably would meet some of those students in a face to face environment because they help us with Presidents Day in preview days, and all of the recruiting events that we do. They do have an Instagram account so you can see some of what they're doing, and while what they've been doing this last year is a little different from what they've done in the past, we feel really good about having student representatives.

I think that that's an important part of us shaping what we should be doing in the college and what we should be thinking about.

So how do you stand out? One way that we stand out, I think is our faculty we have. I think some of the most caring and dedicated faculty I can imagine. I, I really could not be prouder to represent the group of faculty and staff that we have in the College of Education and Human Development. They regularly go above and beyond for their students. And I think our students feel that I think that's part of what makes students successful.

And so when you think about how you can stand out as a student in our college, part of it is being that you know a part of that really rich tradition. Again, were the founding college. I think if you travel around the country, you will know Bowling Green State University is known for education in particular, and that means the College of Education and Human Development is one of the Premier units in the college or in the University. We also are leading in scholarships are alumni because I think they've had.

The good experiences because they're proud to be part of that tradition. Alot of our alumni have been really generous in providing support for future students as well. So when I talked about being part of a family and part of a community that really shows up in the level of support that our alumni give students. And so this last year will give out over, it'll be close to $450,000 in scholarship and that's grown. Just last year it was 300 and $27,000 a year before that it was 280,000.

So every year, that's been a big push for me. When I'm out there talking to donors, I think there isn't anything more important that we could be supporting then our our students. Because you are what matters, right? You're why we're here. Your success is not only the success of the college and the success of Bowling Green State University, but the success of our future. And I think our alumni and friends of the college really feel that too. And so we do a great job with scholarships. We have scholarships for incoming students as well as once you get here.

And so I I'm really proud of the level of support we're able to provide for our students. We also believe heartily in study abroad opportunities.

While those have been a little on hold for her because of the pandemic, before that in every one of our programs you had opportunities to do study abroad. So we had students traveling to China to visit the Olympic facilities and get tours from Beijing Union University. We've got a good partnership there. We have a partnership, a group that goes to Italy every year, and they fashion merchandising.

And product development. They look at the fashion industry in Italy. You can also go and see the original Montessori schools and visit some of those in Italy. We've taken trips to New Zealand to Thailand too. We've got a program to Keele University. I had the pleasure of few years ago of doing a semester at Keele University in England, so we've got a program where students can go and spend an entire semester.

So whether you're interested in a 10 day international experience semester or even a year, there are all kinds of opportunities for you to not only belong at BGSU, but but branch out and see other parts of the world in a really well constructed, supported, Structured Act experience where you know you're not having to figure out all of that on your own. You've got somebody there to help guide you through all of that. And finally, one of the things that I think it.

Really helps us stand out is our field experience and internships. I mentioned that all of our programs are professional programs in nature and so we've worked really hard not only to ensure that our students are getting out into professional settings so that you learn the skills and get the knowledge that you need to be ready for that when you graduate. But we also look for ways to bring those folks into campus so that we can learn from them as well so.

If you're in human development and family studies, we have a developing connections program that brings social agencies and community groups from all over Northwest Ohio to campus to talk with our students, and that's often where internship opportunities are generated. We have.

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I'm sorry I've been executive in residence program where we've had professionals in the field. Come and spend a semester working with our students. We do that with fashion merchandising and product development. We've done that with interior design. There are all kinds of opportunities for you to learn from professionals in the field, so we believe heavily in the internship. That's something that BGSU is known for, and certainly something that the College of Education and Human Development delivers on effectively.

And I did talk a little bit about, so here's the little Red schoolhouse. Imagine yourself standing in front of the little red schoolhouse ringing the Bell.

And you can see this was part of the what is now cold. No, not cool.

The one of our buildings that used to be the original lab school. It was right next to University Hall and they used to have a dairy down there. A little bit of family trivia for me. My uncle used to stop there on his way home from school to milk the cow. So when I say I go back a long way with BGSU, I really I go back a long way with BGSU. But this is sort of the tradition that we're asking you to be a part of.

And then we did talk about the scholarships.

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You can see where we're trying really hard to make sure that we not only can provide you the emotional support that you need, the educational support that you need, but some of the financial support. Here are some of the study abroad. There's a trip to Italy and here's a picture of Keele University.

And here are some of our internships and field experiences. You'll see you've got athletic facilities you've got working in schools and all of the opportunities that you have to.

I only feel what it's like to be a student, but to try on some of the professional rules that you will have.

And then finally going far.

Our goal is to give you a balance of unique experiences, world class resources that help you be successful while you're here as well as after you leave and and that's where the second part of the you know. Usually the first couple of years students are figuring out. I think this is my major many of you will change your major. Some of you more than once. That's OK. My son changed his major.

And that's part of figuring it all out, and our job is to ask the questions that you need to be able to figure that out, and then two at some point once you've settled into your major help, you think about all right now that you've got it figured out what what comes next for you? How does you situate yourself starting even in college, for what comes after that? So 97% of our graduates report being employed in Graduate School or starting their own business.

After six months after graduation, so you'll see in the College of Education and Human Development, that's 97.5% of our graduates. Report this you've got supported the Career Center. We've got a good network, so Falcons are loyal to one another, and so our alumni again often help us with making connections. We have a teacher job fair. We have schools from all over the country. Arizona, South Carolina.

Colorado in and in Ohio as well. Because we are so well known in education, we we generate a lot of interest, so we have probably the largest teacher job fair, certainly in Ohio, and probably one of the largest in the entire country. And and I think it's because I hear it every year that folks are always impressed with our graduates. They know that they are going to be good teachers. We also have for the non teacher.

Education majors we have a job Expo so similarly we have this huge opportunity for you to talk with potential employers and they come here because they know our graduates are going to be well prepared. They will have had those internships they will have had practice in the profession. They will have had not only classes, but good opportunities to learn practical applied skills as well. We also have a sport management career fair, so we bring particularly for sport management.

We bring alumni back. For that. I mentioned the developing connections. That's a conference for human development and family studies, and we have a whole office that's dedicated to field experience in making sure people have good placements and we've been doing many of those placements virtually. But all of our students are still having practically practical applied experiences.

So as we get to wrapping up as I think it's important you know what his students say, so here is one of our interior design students who talks about, you know for her it was the ID professors who helped her to find her creative spark and developer portfolio. She recommends being involved in campus activities and how helpful that is in helping you stand out and land at first job.

And shucks, about the ID lab. I mentioned some of the renovated spaces that we have and we've got a really great interior design and fashion merchandising and product development lab space.

Maybe you're interested like Morgan was an inclusive early childhood education and so you know she talks about her student teaching years. She did two student teaching experiences, which is the way that program is structured. So she did a special education preschool in Toledo, her junior year, and then had an opportunity to do another field full time student teaching experience in a third grade classroom in Fostoria, and she, like many of our students from those programs, came out feeling really well prepared to be successful in her first year of teaching.

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And there we are. And then we have Alisa Cannella, who was in tourism, leisure and event planning, an she talks about all of the different experiences that she had from fund raising to school counseling to all of the different facets of higher education, because she felt prepared to do almost any of those things based on her experience, from the tourism, leisure and event planning program. And that's actually now tourism, hospitality and event planning. So this is just some of what can be you.

Right, any of these students could be you.

When you graduate from Bowling Green State University and again, our goal here is to make sure that you're successful. Make sure that you feel like you belong, that you have opportunities to stand out and so that you can go far because we have done our job in preparing you and supporting you and making sure that you're not just thinking about a bunch of classes, but you're thinking about who do you want to be? Where do you want to go in life, and how can we help you get there?

And so on. That note I'm going to open it up for questions.

So we do have for accreditation purposes we do have some requirements and I I'm going to look to Claire to provide specific details. 'cause I mentioned we have 14 majors and I want to make sure I'm not giving the wrong ones. We do have a GPA that the one thing that we do that's a little.

It isn't that you have to have a particular score or a particular GPA, but we do have a competitive admissions process, so we have so many seats essentially available, and that's based on the capacity for placements in the area. All of those programs you know you have to have opportunities to do your student teaching, and so based on the capacity of the field, we accept a certain number of students into the program, and so we take the top.

In the infer, inclusive early childhood, it's it looks like it's probably going to be about 125 students each year into the program, and so we don't say it's a particular GPA we say will take the top 125 students and.

So I clear, I don't know if you have anything you want to add to that.

Yeah, so I. I like to explain it that we look at really three areas will look at your cumulative GPA at BGSU, which you want to have at least a 3.0. I would say based on the current students that we have in program. Probably closer to a 3.4 three point 5 for being honest in terms of like where we see our students, we look at Target minimum scores of around a 21 on reading and math.

On the AC T and A6 on the writing, if you don't have that as an incoming student, that's totally fine. You can take the Praxis core and you would take that either during your freshman or sophomore year at VG to meet those requirements, and then we're also looking at it's called dispositions, but really just professionalism. Are you coming to class or you going to your field placements? And are you being professional? So we're looking at all three of those areas, but I would say number one is that you know that GPA maintaining at least a 3.0, hopefully higher than that.

And you know, being professional in your placements and you know putting a good foot forward 'cause there is a lot of field experience that you're getting and we want to make sure you're ready for the classroom. Your junior and senior year.

The other thing that I'll just add to that is sometimes we have students who come in believing they want to be an inclusive early childhood major and then discover they actually really like working with those 4th and 5th grade and that upper and so sometimes if they are not. If we don't have all of the slots that we need for the inclusive early childhood program, we're trying to make it really easy to migrate into one of the other majors so that if you really want to teach you.

You will be able to complete that degree and find a place for yourself.

Thank you, um.

Next question clear already answered this one in the chat, but it might be beneficial for us to talk about live as well. Grace asked how do you become a student ambassador for education human development?

I can see Claire smiling is Claire works closely with that group as well, and she's fabulous so clear.

Yes, so our student Masters their student leaders in the college and I reach out to our faculty every December and January to get a list of nominations. You know, two or three students who they see standing out within the classroom. You know, out in the field there really involved and I received those nominations and those students are invited for interviews and those interviews take place, usually at the end of February.

And then we announced our new ambassadors in March, so every year we're taking nominations. But we also have started taking applications so students can apply. But there's some added things that you need to do which is getting letters of recommendation. So it's it's, you know, an involved process. But if you're an ambassador, you get to know faculty you get to work with perspective students, current students get to work with you, know Doctor Shinu, which is awesome. That's a great experience as well, and you really make an impact on the on the college. I mean, we have some really great conversations on how you know.

What are some things that we can do to improve and what's going well and you know? How can we support students so you will get to know the ambassadors, all of you's first year students are ambassadors, are doing programs for you, so you will. You will get to know your Masters will be reaching out to you in the fall.

And I do remember one student who I met at Preview Day who met one of our ambassadors and said, I'm I want to be that right, and so it's great to be thinking about that, so I don't remember who asked the question. But it's a great question and I think that's good to be thinking about what you might want to do when you get here. We'd love to see you.

Listen, this is a good question.

Lexi asked, do you get classroom experience in your first year?

Yes, I usually in two classes. In your first year I will say it's a little different. This year. It may be a little different in the fall, so I always believe in being honest, right? One of the challenges that we've had is we work with well over 120 districts, probably around Northwest Ohio, and they're not all doing the same thing. Some of them are.

About Bowling Green City Schools has been entirely remote, so if you were working with Bowling Green City Schools you would be in a virtual experience. So what that looks like maybe a little difficult for us to anticipate, but our goal is to make sure that you have meaningful interactions in a classroom setting or sometimes even in a community setting. One of the things that we have been emphasizing. It's certainly an education is that if you're going to be an effective educator, it's important to know what happens in a classroom.

And it's also important to have a good understanding of the communities in which you will be working, and so some of our experiences are are actually not in classrooms, but in community agencies to help understand more about what what children experience outside of classrooms as well.

Alright, um next question we have is from Angelina.

How diverse is the school in the student teaching?

It depends a lot on placement, right? So we work with some rural districts where I'll be honest. It's not very diverse at all. I guess maybe I should ask for clarification on the question if it's the diversity of the placement we commit to each one of our students will have an urban and suburban or rural even a charter school we're trying to even get an online.

Placement so you will have a diversity of placements in terms of the demographics of the schools that we work with. It varies widely, but all of our students have experiences across all of those different kinds of schools, which means you may go from a school that's almost exclusively white and that's true for a lot of our smaller rural communities around Northwest Ohio to Toledo Public Schools, which some of their schools are predominantly African American, and so it, it depends. And our goal is.

You know when you graduate with a license from us, your license to teach in any school, so our obligation is to make sure you're ready to teach in any school and you believe that all kids can be successful. So we do our best to provide you with a wide array of experiences.

Thank you and I see that Katie posted in the chat some diversity statistics for our student body as well. If that adds some clarification to the question.

Um, I'm going to go back to another question that was kind of answered in the chat, but you may be able to provide more information.

Um Courtney asked.

My daughter is interested in exercise science leading to physical therapy. We heard there was a physical therapy program coming to BGSU in a year or so. Is that true? And what would that mean for incoming students in the fall?

So yes, I actually can provide some information about that. So what the program that is coming in now to be a certified physical therapist. It requires a DPT. It's a doctorate of physical therapy, and so that's a little different from what it had been in the past. And so BGSU is in the process of getting our DPT. The doctrine of physical therapy approved an we are working. That program is housed in the College of Health and Human Services.

And we are working closely with them to align our undergraduate curriculum so that it will be a competitive admissions process too, so it's not as if I could say if you graduate in exercise science from BGSU, you're guaranteed a spot in that DPT program. But what we are doing is making sure that our curriculum aligns and so that our students can be competitive in that and will have opportunities actually to use some of the same facilities that the DPT program will be using. We share resources.

I didn't mention you know we talked about sort of the state of the art lab and an equipment our, our athletic training and exercise science program has a virtual cadaver, right? So it's an anatomage table that you can do incisions. You can look at skeleton. You can look at muscle structure. You can do it. They have different.

Character isn't quite the right, but different.

Evers, that they have a middle aged woman. Yeah they have a young man. They have an elderly woman, you know they have different demographics. Someone who smokes someone who didn't, and you can actually go in and see those things. And so we work really hard to be collaborative so that some of the.

Materials and resources that the DPT program might be using. They may want to use our our anatomage table and will get to use some of their equipment as well and so in that way I think it will really help us prepare our exercise science students for who are interested in physical therapy with a really seamless path.

And for those students I might just add that at this exact same time the College of Health and Human Services is also doing a session with their Dean. The recording will be available tomorrow on the Presidents Day website. I'll ask Katie to drop that link to the President's Day site. So if you're interested in that path, you can circle back and maybe see if the Dean said something about that in their recording as well.

Um, I'm going to do a last call for questions. I have one more that I can ask right now, but we're approaching that four o'clock hour.

Um?

Angelina asked what are the requirements to be in the AYA program?

So similar to what Claire mentioned, for all, it's an accreditation issue primarily, but for all of our education programs we look at GPA. We look at that dispositions or professionalism evaluations. And then we also look at your AC T or praxis scores. So it's the same three sets of criteria for each program.

It just varies a little bit by by program in terms of what the what the.

You know where the competitive band is, I guess.

And I'll just add to that. So inclusive early childhood, I would say is the most competitive out of the adolescence to young adult program. I would, I would say, probably social studies that tends to be the most popular. So in terms of finding placement, I would guess it's going to be a little bit more competitive. Adolescents, young adults, social studies is your area of interest.

Thanks Claire. OK I'm going in with the last question and then I'll close this out. Riley asked, is it possible to teach more than one subject?

In a middle childhood education degree.

Yes, in fact you will be required to have two areas. So in which two there are all combinations, so some people do language arts and social studies. Some people do language arts and math. Some people do math and science it. But of the four areas. So you will. You will have to choose two of the social studies, language Arts, English language, arts, math and science. And so in fact you will get to 2.

Not even can you. You will have to, so I'm delighted to hear that's what you're interested in.

Excellent.

Um, one more plug for the sessions that we have coming up this evening at 4:00 o'clock. We have how to find Co. OPS internships and part time jobs for all majors. We also at 4:00 o'clock. Have your BGSU Premier a simple guide to joining the Falcon family? Katie did drop in the chat, a link that lists out all of our presentations for the rest of the day. You can pick and choose or come back tomorrow and view all of the recordings on the Presidents Day website. I'm going to give one final thank you too Dean. She knew Anne Claire for this presentation.

And thank all of you again for joining us today for our very first virtual, one of a kind presidents day.

That's all we have for you.

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Enjoy the rest of your day.

thanks everybody. I'm so glad you joined us today. I appreciate your time.

Thank you.