Pre-Kindgergarten through 6th grade.
Persons with this endorsement may teach religion in private schools.
Certification Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement requires a minimum of 24 semester hours of religion.
College Limitation: This endorsement may be approved to be offered as part of an approved teacher education program only in nonpublic institutions of higher education.
Persons with this endorsement may teach physical education in prekindergarten through grade 6.
Certification Endorsement Requirement: This endorsement requires a minimum of 30 semester hours in physical education courses for prekindergarten through grade 6 or grades 7-12 endorsements.
Persons with this endorsement may teach, consult, or provide services for children with hearing impairments , PK-6. This includes deafness, hard of hearing, and hearing impairment associated with other disabilities.
Persons with this endorsement may teach, consult, or provide services related to behavioral needs for children with disabilities, , grades PK-6.
Certification Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement requires a minimum of 18 graduate semester hours in behavior intervention strategies and closely related topics.
If a candidate does not hold a special education endorsement, a minimum of an additional 12 graduate semester hours in special education coursework is required.
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.
Persons with this endorsement may teach English as a Second Language (ESL) in the grade levels for which they are prepared.
Certification Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement requires a minimum of 15 semester hours of course work in the following topics: Second Language Acquisition, English Language/Linguistics, Cross-Cultural Communication, Methods/Curriculum Design in English as a Second Language, and Assessment and Evaluation of English Language Learners (ELL).