Integrated Language Arts Faculty
- Kristine Pytash, Ph.D.
Professor and ADED Program Coordinator | kpytash@kent.edu | 330-672-2580 - Elizabeth Testa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor | etesta@kent.edu | 330-672-0647
Harish Yadav is an English language is an English language teaching facilitator and mentor teacher at Directorate of Education GNCT in Delhi, India. He is one of the Fulbright TEA scholars in the Fall 2023 Cohort at Kent State University.The program hosted at Kent State offered him the opportunity to develop his facilitating skills and allowed him to focus more on expanding teachers’ soft skills in his mentee schools. During the six weeks spent in Ohio, he interacted with both faculty members at Kent State and Fulbright exchange teachers from 20 different countries.He enjoyed the exchang...
A partnership between University Culinary Services at Kent State University and Choolaah Indian BBQ created an impactful contribution to the CARES Center.Choolaah donated over $13,000 to the CARES Center’s mission of securing resources to assist students with their basic needs regarding financial empowerment, food security, stable housing, and mental well-being. On Feb. 7, 2024, a celebratory event was held in the CARES Center at the Kent Student Center. It included remarks from Choolaah and Division of Student Life leadership, a check presentation, Choolaah items for attendees to sample from,...
The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 6, in the University Library, Second Floor, Urban Conference Room, on the Kent Campus to consider the recommendations of the standing committees, proposed personnel actions and new business. Trustees will retire into executive session at 8:30 a.m. to consider specific topics as provided under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” The roll call vote for this session will occur in public in the Urban Conference Room. On March 6, the meeting of the full Board of Trustees will be held in...
Below is a description of the required courses and the year/semester in which you will study them. For more detailed information about the program, please contact Dr. Kristy Pytash (kpytash@kent.edu).
Students admitted to the College of Education may select Middle Childhood Education (MCED) as their major. Applicants to advanced study in MCED will be reviewed by the Middle Childhood Education faculty toward the end of the sophomore year. In order to manage enrollment and provide a high quality program, the faculty will select the most qualified applicants based on the following criteria:
Consider applying to the Master of Education in Reading Specialization program (M.Ed.). You earn the K-12 endorsement within this program. You have a total of 6 years to complete this degree. You would have 18 hours (6 courses) left after the reading endorsement courses to complete your degree. You may also apply as graduate non-degree for the endorsement program only. However please note only 12 hours will transfer to a master’s program if you apply as graduate non-degree.
Go to the Application page.
In addition to completing the reading endorsement coursework, you must take the following test: OAE Reading (K-12) exam, subtest 1 (38) and 2 (39). Please note that Kent State cannot process a request to the State of Ohio for the Reading Endorsement without test scores.
The courses in the K-12 Reading Endorsement are: