Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) (SP)

The endorsement will be valid only in the area of ROTC and may appear only on a career education teaching permit as a subject endorsement, or on an initial or standard or professional certificate as a supplemental endorsement.

Five (5) years of full time or salaried employment in the military.

A letter of recommendation from a military supervisor.

Extracted from Nebraska Department of Education Rule 24 Regulations for Certificate Endorsements Title 92, Nebraska Administrative Code, Chapter 24

 

Reading and Writing (7-12)

Persons with this endorsement may teach reading and writing in prekindergarten through grade 6, or in grades 7 through 12.

Certification Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement requires a minimum of 18 semester hours in courses selected from reading, writing, and language theories, developmental reading and writing on the elementary or secondary level, appropriate strategies and skills, diagnostic and intervention techniques and resources, and children’s or adolescent literature, language, and writing, and including an approved field experience.

Reading and Writing (PK-6)

Persons with this endorsement may teach reading and writing in prekindergarten through grade 6, or in grades 7 through 12.

Certification Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement requires a minimum of 18 semester hours in courses selected from reading, writing, and language theories, developmental reading and writing on the elementary or secondary level, appropriate strategies and skills, diagnostic and intervention techniques and resources, and children’s or adolescent literature, language, and writing, and including an approved field experience.

Skilled and Technical Sciences Education – Skilled Specific

Endorsement Type: Supplemental. This endorsement requires an applicant to hold, or earn concurrently, an endorsement in Agricultural Education or Skilled and Technical Sciences Education and be eligible for the Work-Based Learning endorsement.

Persons with this endorsement may teach Skilled and Technical Sciences Education – Skilled Specific in grades 9 through 12.

Certification Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement requires the following:

American Sign Language (SP) (7-12)

Persons with this endorsement may teach American Sign Language (ASL) at the grade level(s) for which they have been prepared.

Certification Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement requires a minimum of 18 semester hours of coursework in ASL content.

Practicum. Prospective teachers will be engaged in practicum experiences at the level(s) of endorsement.

American Sign Language (SP) (K-8)

Persons with this endorsement may teach American Sign Language (ASL) at the grade level(s) for which they have been prepared.

Certification Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement requires a minimum of 18 semester hours of coursework in ASL content.

Practicum. Prospective teachers will be engaged in practicum experiences at the level(s) of endorsement.

American Sign Language (SP) (K-12)

Persons with this endorsement may teach American Sign Language (ASL) at the grade level(s) for which they have been prepared.

Certification Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement requires a minimum of 18 semester hours of coursework in ASL content.

Practicum. Prospective teachers will be engaged in practicum experiences at the level(s) of endorsement.

Journalism and Media Education

Persons with this endorsement may teach journalism writing and production courses, and direct student efforts in curricular and co-curricular media intended for public consumption in grades 7 through 12.

Certification Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement requires a minimum of 18 semester hours in journalism and digital literacy, including an approved field experience.

Instructional Technology Leadership

Endorsement Type: Supplemental endorsement only. This endorsement cannot exist by itself on a certificate, but is added to a certificate only in the presence of other endorsements which may have been acquired earlier or concurrently.

 Persons with this endorsement may assist in or facilitate the development of technology programs for students in prekindergarten through grade 12.

Certification Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement requires a minimum of 15 semester hours which includes the following:

Information Technology

Persons with this endorsement may teach information technology courses.

Certification Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement requires a minimum of 15 semester hours in information technology courses.

Endorsement Program Requirements: Standard institutions of higher education offering this endorsement must have on file, within the institution, a plan which identifies the courses and the course completion requirements which the institution utilizes to grant credit toward completion of this endorsement.