English Language Arts EducationBachelor of Arts

Educating the future

Educators emphasize the best and latest methods for instructing older children in the areas of composition, creative writing, dramatic readings and interpretation, literature, poetry and reading comprehension.

English Language Arts Education

Start your future in english language arts education.

Program Highlights

Licensed to Teach

The English language arts education degree is a four-year program that prepares students to teach English to grades 6-12.

Special Honors

In the last three years, two Friends University English language arts education majors have been awarded the Teacher of Promise.

Highly Successful

All English education majors were employed as teachers within a year of graduation. English education majors consistently pass the Praxis with high scores.

Intership Opportunity

The program includes an internship at the middle or high school level during the fall semester of the senior year. Friends University boasts successful relationships with the middle and secondary schools of Wichita and the surrounding areas.

Passionate Faculty

Professors in the Division of Education emphasize the best and latest methods for instructing older children in the areas of composition, creative writing, dramatic readings and interpretation, literature, poetry, and reading comprehension.

Licensed to Teach

Graduates are licensed to teach by the state of Kansas after successfully completing the degree and passing the Principles of Learning and Teaching Exam (PLT). Other requirements for a degree include a cumulative 2.75 grade point average with no “D” grades in the major.

Career Services

Helpful career guidance. Starting salary for USD 259 for a beginning teacher is approximately $39,000.

“Teaching isn’t a career that people go into for the money or the prestige. Most enter the career with a passion for making the world a better place – one child at a time.”

Matt Skillen, English Teacher

Featured Faculty

Lori Moshier

Lori Moshier

  • Assistant Professor of Education; Lead Faculty Secondary Education
  • Education
  • Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Education, Wichita State University; Master of Education in Teaching and Learning, Friends University; Doctor of Education in Technology and Leadership from William Howard Taft University
Vicki Ronn

Dr. Vicki Ronn

  • Professor of English
  • Theology & Humanities
  • B.A., St. Mary of the Plains; M.A., Fort Hays State University; Ph.D., Texas Tech University

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