2022-2023 Educator Preparation
Preparing the next generation of educators through community partnership, equity and innovation.
The Ohio State University Educator Preparation Programs collaborate with district and community partners to develop high-quality educators. This partnership fulfills an essential element in preparing future educators and leaders, resulting in meaningful professional experiences in diverse educational settings.
This snapshot details how educator preparation programs engage with Ohio communities and align with the mission and goals of the university and state. The information provided represents Ohio State’s Educator Preparation Programs during the 2022-2023 academic year from the colleges of: Arts and Sciences; Education and Human Ecology; Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; Nursing; and Social Work.
Prepared by: Office of Accreditation, Placement and Licensure (APL)
Our Reach and Impact Throughout Ohio
363,786
Total field hours
116,874
Observation hours
54,224
Internship and practicum hours
192,688
Student teaching hours
Educator Preparation Program students were placed in 144 Ohio Public Districts in 429 Ohio Public Schools and 25 other educational settings with 1,204 site mentors. Since 2020, Ohio State has prepared approximately 400 new teacher candidates annually with about 100 other educator licensure areas, such as school administrators and pupil services. While the number of placements slightly decreased since the 2021-2022 academic year, programs continue to strategically select diverse and high-quality field placements that allow students to learn in a variety of environments. Reciprocal P-12 partnerships ensure Ohio State licensure completers are well prepared for their future careers in education.
Overview of Programs and Highlights
Ohio State's diverse, nationally ranked programs produce highly effective educators. The Art Education, Music Education, Speech Pathology and School Audiology programs are hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences. The Agriscience Education program is hosted by the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. The School Nurse program is hosted by the College of Nursing. The School Social Work program is hosted by the College of Social Work. All other programs are hosted by the College of Education and Human Ecology.
Programs Nationally Ranked by US News & World Report
High-Quality Completer Outcomes
"Our college is committed to serving the needs of all schools, particularly high-needs schools in urban and rural communities. We value academic excellence across our programs and endeavor to ensure that our students are prepared to join the K-12 educator workforce and address the pressing issues of schools.”
- Don Pope-Davis
Dean, College of Education and Human Ecology
Meeting Ohio School and Workforce Needs
Meeting the needs of Ohio schools is intrinsic to our mission and vision. The College of Education and Human Ecology has identified the three following pillars to prepare Educator Preparation Program students to meet the needs of an evolving Ohio workforce.
Ohio State believes in engaging with people from different cultures and experiences to gain new perspectives that enhance our global partnerships and local impact.
Ohio State is dedicated to collaborating with local and national partners to advance human health and development, well-being and economic vitality.
Ohio State is uniquely poised to partner with urban and rural communities to broaden educational opportunities and to close educational gaps.
Project ROOT
Student Placements Across Ohio
With campuses located across the state, Ohio State ensures that students collaborate in a variety of settings. Most Ohio State licensure students attend several placements in a year, oftentimes requiring various levels of involvement with diverse students and mentors at different buildings, grade levels, and/or subject areas to ensure they are exposed to the multiple facets their license covers. Program representatives make intentional efforts to expose Ohio State students to settings in two or more school types (urban, suburban, small town and rural) when making their placement requests.
Ohio Map Showing Number of Student Placements by Geographic Classification of Schools*
2,208
Total Placements
899 Placements in 12 urban districts
862 Placements in 27 suburban districts
153 Placements in 47 small town districts
124 Placements in 36 rural districts
170 Placements in 25 other locations**
*Placements represented do not include pre-program data.
**School geographic classifications are based on the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce’s Typology of Ohio School Districts for urban, suburban, small town and rural districts. Other locations include public non-charter schools such as career-technical schools, independent preschools or non-school placements such as after-school programs.
Expanding Reach Across Ohio
Ohio State produces uniquely prepared graduates who have been afforded diverse, practical experiences. This model best equips them to excel in school settings after graduation. As Ohio and many states across the country face teacher shortages, Ohio State not only prepares educators for these high-need areas, but the P-12 partners who host our students also play a direct role in ensuring their success. In addition, these partners often view our partnership as an integral component of their recruitment pipeline. To help further combat the shortage issue, Ohio State hosted one of five regional educator shortage summits across the state in Fall 2022 to work towards solutions for Central Ohio.
Placement Trends Across Ohio
Ohio Counties
Ohio Public Districts
Ohio Public Schools
Historically, Ohio State students are placed in schools in over half of Ohio’s counties. In the 2022-2023 academic year, these partnerships expanded into 25 additional public districts than recent years. Students continue to be intentionally clustered in common buildings to foster collaboration and shared learning opportunities, thereby accounting for the steady decrease in the number of school sites.
Student Voices
“I truly feel we have built a community within my cohort as well as within the program. Although most of my cohort’s members are in distinct placements and have diverse experiences, they always provide feedback to each other with positivity, grace and encouragement. We all come together to share, learn and grow together. Within my classes, I have always felt comfortable sharing aspects of teaching that are going well and things that are challenging.
I have felt supported by my peers, professors and advisors and am excited to use everything I have learned in my future classroom.”
“The Special Education Program has provided me with numerous hands-on learning experiences. I participated in internships with four different school districts. Each school placement helped me learn new ways to educate students of all abilities. At the same time, the outstanding professors throughout the program helped ease my transition into my career path. I now know that after graduation, I want to teach in a middle school, as an intervention specialist. And it is all thanks to this amazing program. OH-IO!”
2022-2023 Graduate and Undergraduate Enrollment in Pre-Service Teacher* Preparation Programs
*This image details teacher education candidates from various degree and licensure-only programs throughout The Ohio State University. Advanced and pupil services programs are not included in these data.
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Total enrolled teacher candidates: 970
Enrollment by college
- Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences: 36
- Arts and Sciences: 105
- Education and Human Ecology: 829
Enrollment by campus (EHE only)
- Columbus - 562
- Lima - 72
- Mansfield - 44
- Marion - 59
- Newark - 92
Mentors Are Critical Partners When Preparing the Next Generation of Educators
Mentor educators play a significant role in the development of The Ohio State University students. We know that coursework grounded in research and theory, along with high-quality, diverse field experiences is imperative to producing effective teachers. This is why Ohio State partners with districts throughout the state to ensure students have experiences in diverse communities with experienced mentor teachers. In the 2022-2023 term, mentors agreed at a rate of 92% that program expectations prepared students to be successful in-service teachers. Students agree that their relationships with their mentors are a hallmark of their student experience.
Video transcript for the Mentor Educator 2022 video, (on focus pressing Enter will reveal the transcript text).
Speaker 1:
My name is Taylor Sear and I am a current student teacher in the Hillard city schools district. I wanted to take a quick moment to shout out my mentor for being genuinely one of the most amazing people that I have ever met. Her guidance support and just utmost kindness have meant the absolute world to me in the last few months and I truly cannot imagine my student teaching experience without her. She is somebody who has taught me so much about the kind of person and the kind of teacher that I hope to be in the future.
I tell her all the time that if I have one goal in education it's togenuinely be as loved by my students as she is. She is one of the most amazing people that I have met in my life and I am forever grateful that she took a student teacher this year in the middle of this crazy pandemic. I am just so thankful for my mentor today and every day I just want to send a shout out to my mentor teacher Karen Parker at Franklin Heights.
She has given me so much guidance and help throughout this whole year but especially this semester. She's given me so much autonomy to kind of play around and see what works and what doesn't work before iIactually have my own classroom and I'm really grateful for how we work together and all the autonomy that I've been given.
So thank you.
Speaker 2:
Hey Miss Stevens, I just wanted to thank you for an incredible year um you're the best mentor teacher I could have asked for. I've loved getting to know you and getting to know Miss Kramer and all the people who inevitably stop in our room over the year.
I love the way you love our students and how you're an advocate for them in and outside of the classroom. I will never forget this year so love you thanks to Stevens.
Speaker 3:
My mentor educator is Melissa Wayne at Indianola from K2A. Can I say from the jump she's always been honest been very helpful and always giving me great feedback before and after lessons answered a lot of hard questions that I've had just about teaching and I mean she's really just helped me to develop as an educator so I'm definitely appreciative of her and her efforts.
Yeah this has been great just working with her this year the reason why I am recording this right now is to give thanks to Valerie to you for everything that you've done for me this semester. When I first came to Central I did not know how i would fit in i did not know if this would be the right place for me and you have made me feel welcome from the moment that I stepped in.
You've made me feel like I'm a part of this that I am welcome, that my input matters, and that I have been able to grow as a result of that I feel that every day I'm there is blessing. It is a treat and I legitimately enjoy every second I spend in the classroom.
I hope that we can keep moving our relationship and our classroom forward in the next coming months and really want to echo the sentiment that I have been enjoying being in your class and I've been extremely grateful.
Speaker 4:
Hi Miss Burgle, I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everything that you've done for me this semester and our students I think that you do a wonderful job as a teacher and also a fellow staff member in Southwestern and it's been amazing to learn from you and to grow as a student teacher and for you to help guide me through this journey and I couldn't be more appreciative of everything you've done. I can't wait to visit you again and I will miss our class very much. Thank you.
Speaker 5:
Hi Miss Beach. I know you love Theo so i thought it was only right to include him in this video. I just want to shout you out for being the best mentor teacher I could have asked for this year. You consistently remained on top of things through a very inconsistent time period. You supported me and challenged me when needed and you always made me think 20 steps ahead when I thought I had it right I knew I did not.So yeah thank you so much for creating a loving and safe space in your classroom for me to learn.
Very thankful, thanks.
Speaker 6:
I just want to give a huge shout out to my mentor educator mrs Torre Renoir you have taught me a lot during my time with you I appreciate you let me be me and let me use my teacher voice. I have learned so much from you during my experience with you I just hope that i can be half the teacher that you are one day thank you so much.
Hey Regina, I just wanted to say thank you for taking me on as your student this semester. It has been awesome to be partnered with you and kind of be under your wing and get to learn from you. It has been really insightful it's helped me sort of find this authoritative voice inside of myself and feel comfortable in front of the classroom which a year ago I would have never expected to be possible.
I couldn't have done that without you and I really appreciate you being patient with me and kind of giving me guidance throughout this. Thank you.
Speaker 7:
Hi Mrs. Patrick, I just want to say thank you so much for being my mentor educator. I could not imagine going through the student teaching process with anybody else. You're such a great teacher and you care about the students so much and I am learning so much from you as well and i love the teamwork and everything that we've developed so far this year and I cannot wait for the future for everything.
Thank you,
I am here at Grandview Heights high school where two of the best mentors in the whole world teach Emily Meister and Laura Lombardi Turner. I am so thankful for your leadership and your patience and your encouragement for me.
Thank you for letting me crash your school year and thank you for sharing your wonderful students with me. Love you guys a lot my CT is clearly knowledgeable about what it takes to be a good intervention specialist. She is great at answering questions I have she is a good manager who coordinates a lot of tasks that are coming at her from many different directions. She is super organized good at being in charge and directing students to help them produce their best work.
She answers kid questions with honesty. She's a great time manager she's good at helping fellow educators in the building sharing ideas and tools and she's really good at sharing behavior charts especially a lot of people come to her for that. She shares her sources, she is a good problem solver, she is really clear with the students about her expectations.
She works well with paraprofessionals and I have their approval to say that and she doesn't say no when a fellow educator asks for help and so I do feel like I'm getting the full experience of what it looks like to be intervention specialist I'm doing push in I'm going to iep meetings very regularly i'm going to staff meetings I think I'm getting a really good look at what this job is all about and so I just want to say thank you thank you Miss Shaffer and thank you Heritage Elementary.
Speaker 8:
Hi my name is Jordan Klein and my mentor educator is Patricia Oliveira who is a second grade teacher at Trinity Catholic Elementary in Grandview.
Patti, I just wanted to say thank you so much for everything you have done for me this year thank you for always giving me the time and opportunity to work with students teach lessons and do anything that was required for my classes thank you for also trusting in me to take on the head teacher role and conduct lessons in helping me prepare for my first year teaching also thank you for helping me with my job hunt and always being so supportive and encouraging and just knowing that that my abilities are there and that I can make a big move and pursue and achieve my dreams so thank you for everything Patty I appreciate it.
Yeah I've really enjoyed my time with my mentor teacher from day one she's welcomed me in the classroom and has given me the space to try new things, experiment my lesson plans which has helped me grow by experience and become better in my practices so I've really appreciated her sacrificing some of the control she has in the classroom to help me better my confidence and my future in teaching she's always looking to teach me something new.
She's just a wealth of knowledge and incredibly willing to share that knowledge as well um and besides you know being a good teacher to her students being a good teacher to me she's just a great person you know very laid back uh very easy to talk to I've thoroughly enjoyed our our conversations and uh she's been great.
Speaker 9:
Hi Mrs B, I just wanted to thank you for being an amazing mentor and person this past year to me.
I am so grateful for you I have learned so much this past year that I can't wait to use in my own classroom especially classroom management and data driven instruction.
You are truly inspirational and i just want you to know how much I appreciate you.
Thanks again.
Inclusive and Diverse Placements
99% of Ohio State initial licensure students who graduated in 2022-2023 gained experience in at least one inclusive and diverse school environment throughout their program. Over half (58.7%) of the same cohort completed a placement in all four inclusive learning environments.*
90.4%
In an economically disadvantaged school
83.4%
With P-12 special needs students
86.5%
In a racially diverse school
78.2%
With English learners
*School diversity categories are defined by the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce (ODEW). Ohio State educator preparation programs quantify diversity across four areas. A school is considered diverse if the percentage of P-12 students in the four identified subgroups is above the state average for that category. APL updates school data and thresholds every five years based on school trends. More information on state student enrollment can be found on the ODEW website.
“Columbus City Schools appreciates the strong partnership we have with The Ohio State University, College of Education and Human Ecology. This partnership provides Ohio State student teachers a place to learn from experienced CCS mentors and aspiring principals to develop equity-centered skills and dispositions to prepare leaders to serve in our schools. It also provides graduate students with research opportunities to help the district evaluate the impact of our investments on student outcomes. We are grateful for our longstanding relationship with the university and look forward to even more collaboration in the future.”
- Dr. Angela Chapman, PhD
Superintendent/CEO Columbus City Schools
Strategic Partnerships to Support Future Generations
Each year, College of Education and Human Ecology faculty and graduate students collaborate with P-12 educators to conduct research in schools. This research allows us to test new ideas and interventions and share findings. It adds to our collective knowledge about how to enhance teaching and learning.
In the 2022-2023 academic year, the total number of hours spent by college faculty, staff or students conducting research in schools was 4,102 hours. Ohio public districts hosted 3,921 hours of these projects.
Research by hours
Research conducted in:
A Collaborative Approach to the Future of Education
District partners and Ohio State value a symbiotic relationship rooted in the benefits of experiential learning and research-driven practices. In return for hosting research activities and college student placements in their schools, districts get a return on their investment.
Partnership aids in reduced student/teacher ratios, coordinated efforts in research and inservice practices and a pipeline of educators ready to hit the ground running. Additionally, districts receive tuition waivers for educators to take graduate courses. Partner districts earned 2,649 waivers in 2022-2023. These waivers are used by educators to participate in courses that aid in professional development, licensure renewal and obtaining additional credentials and/or new degrees.
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The College of Education and Human Ecology and school partners share in a reciprocal partnership.
The above graphic is a cycle with four text boxes:
- Teacher feedback, such as the cooperating teacher survey,impacts curricular decision making
- Reduced student/teacher ratio
- Partnership in research and in-service practices
- Coordination of professional development opportunities