Bachelors

Persons with this endorsement may teach, provide leadership for professional development in the area of reading, and assess and interpret data to determine and implement instructional options for teaching students in prekindergarten through grade 12.

Certification Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement requires a minimum of 30 graduate semester hours in reading and related courses. In addition, this endorsement requires clinical experiences appropriate for the endorsement level.

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 psychology in grades 7 through 12.

Certification Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement requires a minimum of 36 hours including 30 semester hours in Psychology and six (6) semester hours in one or more of the other social sciences areas (Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, and/or Anthropology or Sociology).

Persons with this endorsement may teach political science in grades 7 through 12.

Certification Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement requires a minimum of 36 semester hours including 30 semester hours in Political Science and six (6) semester hours in one or more of the other social sciences areas (Economics, Geography, History, Psychology, and/or either Anthropology or Sociology).

Persons with this endorsement may teach any physics course in grades 7 through 12.

Persons with this endorsement may teach physical education in prekindergarten through  12.

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 any social sciences course in grades 7 through 12.

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:

Persons with this endorsement may teach Skilled and Technical Sciences Education and will be eligible for the Work-Based Learning endorsement.

Certification Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement requires a minimum of 48 semester hours of course work in skilled and technical sciences education and professional education, including:

Persons with this endorsement may provide orientation and mobility services to students with visual impairments from birth through age 21. “Visual Impairment” includes blindness, low vision (legal blindness and partial sight) and vision loss associated with other disabilities.

Endorsement Requirements: This endorsement program requires a minimum of 36 graduate semester hours in special education coursework including: