Licensing Sequences
Early Childhood: Special Education This license enables students to teach infants and very young children with special educational needs from birth to age eight.
Early Childhood: Regular Education For licensure in early childhood education, students complete either the Early Childhood: Special and Regular Education Major, or the Early Childhood Education minor and a major in Elementary Education.
Early Childhood through Middle Childhood: Regular Education To teach children ages birth through eleven, students must complete the Elementary Education major with the Early Childhood minor.
Early Childhood through Adolescence: Regular Education To teach at the early childhood through adolescence level, birth through age 21, students must complete a teaching major in one of the following areas, as well as the Professional Core and specialized professional studies requirements for teaching students in a wide range of ages.
- Art and Design Teaching
- Business Teaching
- French Teaching/Spanish Teaching
- Music Education
- Theatre Education
Middle Childhood-Early Adolescence: Regular Education To teach children and youth ages six through thirteen, students must complete the Elementary Education major with a minor. The minor may be a licensing minor or a non-licensing minor. The following are typical minors:
- English/Communication Studies/Theatre Arts
- English
- Teaching English Language Learners (ESL or ESL/Bilingual)
- French
- History
- Mathematics
- Natural Science Teaching
- Science Education
- Social Studies Teaching Minor
- Spanish
Middle Childhood-Early Adolescence: Special Education To teach children and youth ages six through thirteen in special education populations, students must complete a graduate program in cross-categorical special education. Undergraduate licensing programs are excellent foundations on which to build a graduate program in special education.
Early Adolescence-Adolescence: Special Education To teach children and youth ages ten through 21 in special education populations, students complete the graduate program in cross-categorical special education. Undergraduate licensing programs are excellent foundations on which to build a graduate program in special education.
Early Adolescence-Adolescence: Regular Education To teach at the early adolescence through adolescence level, ages ten through 21, students must complete a teaching major and a minor in Secondary Education. Teaching majors include:
- Biology Teaching
- Biology Teaching Major with Environmental Science
- Broad Field Teaching: Earth and Space Science
- Broad Field Teaching: Life and Environmental Science Including Biology and Environmental Science
- Broad Field Teaching: Physical Science Including Chemistry
- Broad Field Teaching: Physical Science Including Physics
- Broad Fields Social Studies: History Concentration with Teaching
- Chemistry Teaching
- Computer Science Education
- English Teaching
- History Teaching
- Mathematics Teaching
Additional teaching minors are also available in Biology, Chemistry, English, History, Teaching English Language Learners (TESOL), French, Mathematics, Theatre Education, and Spanish. Minors must be accompanied by a teaching major, and minors in science may be taken only in combination with a science teaching major.
Teaching English Language Learners: ESL This English as a Second Language license is an add-on license and must be attached to a content area license in Early Childhood: Regular Education or Middle Childhood – Adolescence: Regular Education. The license enables students to teach English language learners in either a mainstream or pullout classroom. Proficiency in a second language is not required as the language of instruction is in English.
Teaching English Language Learners: ESL/Bilingual License This English as a Second Language/Bilingual license is an add-on license and must be attached to a content area license in Early Childhood: Regular Education or Middle Childhood – Adolescence: Regular Education. The license enables students to teach English language learners in a bilingual classroom. Proficiency in a second language is required as the language of instruction is in English and a language other than English.