Teaching Areas

• The Educator Licensing Program in the School of Education at Colorado State University offers the following individual teaching/endorsement areas from which individuals may choose.
• The program is a non-degree, licensing only program i.e., Bachelor degrees in education are not awarded. Undergraduate students receive a B.S., B.A. or B.M. in their content area.).
• Colorado State is the only institution recognized by the State of Colorado to provide teacher preparation in vocational education.
• Candidates in vocational education areas must also receive a vocational credential along with a teaching license for employment in public schools.
• All teaching endorsement areas provide individuals with an institutional recommendation for a license to teach in grades 7-12 except for the areas of art and music which allow an individual to be licensed in grades K-12th grade and the area of early childhood education which allows an individual to teach in PreK-3rd grade.
• Colorado State does not offer a teaching endorsement in elementary education (grades K-6).  For more information on options with regard to elementary education, click here: Elementary Education Options

Curriculum Checksheets

Endorsement Program for Teaching Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 3

• Early Childhood Education
• Program Model
  

Endorsement Programs for Teaching Kindergarten through Grade 12

• Art Education
• Music Education
Choral Option
Instrumental Option
• Program Model
  

Endorsement Programs for Teaching Grades 7 through 12 (Secondary)

• Agricultural Education
• Business-Accounting Concentration
• Business-Management Concentration
• English
• Family and Consumer Science(formerly Consumer & Family Science)
• Foreign Languages
• Marketing
• Mathematics
• Mathematics - For Post Bachelor Students Only
• Science-Biology Concentration
• Science-Chemistry Concentration
• Science-Geology Concentration
• Science-Physics Concentration
• Science - For Post Bachelor Students only
• Social Studies (History Major)
• Social Studies - For Post Bachelor Students only
• Speech-General
• Speech-Theatre
• Technology Education (Engineering Science Major)
• Instructional Technology Teacher (Applied Computing Technology)

• Program Model

• Other endorsement areas include administrator or principal and counselor graduate programs in the School of Education (see Graduate Programs for more information); English as a Second Language graduate program in the Department of English - College of Liberal Arts ; Occupational Therapist graduate program in the Department of Occupational Therapy and School Social Worker graduate program in the Department of Social Work . Please refer to specific home pages for further details on these endorsement areas.

Vocational Credentialing

• Requirements for a vocational credential are regulated by the Community Colleges of Colorado (CCC)  in Denver, CO.  For information on vocational credentialing, please contact the Vocational Credentialing Office at (303) 595-1650.  Mailing address is:  9101 E. Lowry Blvd., Blg 959
  Denver, Colorado 80230. Their email address is Credential@cccs.edu.  More information can be found on the credentialing web site.