Alternative Resident Educator

Pathway to your Professional Teaching License

The alternative resident educator program (AREP) is being offered to respond to the State of Ohio’s need for licensed teachers to fill immediate vacancies.

The competency-driven curriculum improves your knowledge of high-quality, exemplary classroom practice, like new ways to communicate with, engage and accommodate students in the classroom.

Tuition is personalized and self-paced with our high-quality online learning system. Additionally, all courses are supervised by faculty from the BGSU Education masters classes.

Another benefit, you can apply credit hours to the Master in Education degree.

Your Degree, Your Way

Flexible online learning means progressing your career can adapt to your work schedule. Students can complete the BGSU alternative resident educator program in under one year.

The BGSU College of Education and Human Development is nationally ranked by US News & World Report as one of the top programs for education. The college offers masters and doctoral degrees as well as specialist qualifications and endorsements, certificates & licenses.

Curriculum

Six core courses make up the required learning for the alternative resident educator graduate certificate. Students explore, among other topics, professional responsibility, family communication and engagement with a broader learning community. 

In classroom teaching is enhanced with conscious reflection on past practice and examining new ways to create a positive and engaging learning environment. 

Other classes look at ways to create effective classroom procedures and manage student behavior, learning and design and implement assessments.

Elective courses in literacy and phonics round out this thorough professional development course for active teachers.    

Program Information

Students taking the alternative resident educator graduate certificate undertake 15 credit hours - (12 hours core, 3 hours reading elective).   

The program is personalized and self-paced, however, modules are supervised by BGSU education masters faculty.