Grounded in our Jesuit mission and liberal arts tradition, we prepare students to teach and lead for a more just society in schools and other settings. We focus on educating the whole person — mind, body, and spirit — and preparing students to lead and serve others. You will learn from caring, expert education faculty and gain valuable firsthand experience in area schools, helping you develop professionally and personally to make a difference in the classroom, your community, and beyond.
Father Owens Award and The J. Joseph Whelan Award for Leadership in Service.
Learn why you can make a difference as an educator.
of JCU teacher candidates are hired for teaching positions, 38% pursue further education, and 33% obtain a leadership position soon after graduation.
John Carroll prepares educational leaders for a more just society. Learn more below.
The core curriculum courses will help you gain a broad base of knowledge in many subjects, develop highly valued communication skills, and sharpen your ability to creatively and confidently solve problems. You’ll build on that foundation with your education major, studying child or adolescent development, effective teaching methods, differences in learning, and more. You’ll also take courses in specific content areas and strategies for the teaching field you choose.
All of these studies are rooted in our 450-year-old Jesuit heritage, with its focus on educating the whole person—mind, body, and spirit—and preparing students to lead and serve others. A John Carroll education also will help you understand, appreciate, and engage the cultures and complexities of our increasingly global society.
John Carroll education professors are not only mentors who will teach your courses and advise you, but they are also first-rate researchers. They work with teachers, children, and school leaders to study and improve instructional technology, literacy programs, teacher education, and more. That faculty expertise translates into innovative education courses and research opportunities for John Carroll students.
Our students learn by doing – and teaching. The University has built strong relationships with numerous nearby school districts, which means that you’ll have ample opportunities to observe and work directly with students and teachers in their classrooms. These valuable experiences begin as early as your first year in the program and continue through your student teaching year.
As a capstone to your courses and fieldwork, John Carroll offers a unique professional year program for student teachers. You’ll first participate in a semester of pre-student teaching with weekly experiences observing and interacting with teachers and students in an area classroom.
The following semester you’ll student teach in that same classroom, collaborating with a cooperating teacher and a John Carroll education professor. The professional year helps you improve your teaching skills, learn to manage a classroom, and graduate prepared for your first teaching position.
Our alumni are accomplished teachers, school psychologists and counselors, principals, and leaders in public and private schools and other educational settings. John Carroll education graduates have a stellar reputation in schools in the region, state, and beyond.
Visit our Success Stories page to learn more our recent graduates.
Teaching positions needed by 2020
According to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, 10,600 teaching positions will open annually until 2022. By then, 37,760 additional teaching positions will be needed. Our next generation needs you, and JCU can help you answer the call.
Individual programs are also Nationally Recognized by the following Specialized Professional Associations (SPAs) through 2026:
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
The Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE)
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)
All programs are Approved by the Chancellor of the Ohio Department of Higher Education.