Adding an Additional Endorsement to a Valid License
Applicant Information - Endorsement Worksheets (below)
There are two routes available for adding an endorsement to a valid Colorado license:
Additional Endorsement Based on Completion of an Approved Program
Educators seeking to add a second or subsequent endorsement area to their Colorado licenses may do so through the completion of a state-approved program offered by an institution of higher education. The college or university provides advisement concerning specific requirements for the new endorsement. The Educator Licensing Office can provide the names of colleges in Colorado approved to offer teaching, special services, principal, and administrative endorsements. The applicant must successfully complete the PLACE® content area assessment in the endorsement being sought or one of the following SBE approved PRAXIS II content area assessments: Elementary Education; English Language, Literature, and Composition; Mathematics; General Science; or Social Studies . Upon completion of the program, the institution provides a recommendation to the Department of Education for the added endorsement.
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Additional Endorsement Based On Credit or Assessment
Teachers seeking to add a second or subsequent endorsement to their Colorado teaching license may do so through a combination of academic preparation, experience, or assessment only in the following areas:
Area Available Through Assessment Only
Areas Available Through Credit or
Assessment
Click on each area for
Requirements/Worksheets
- Agriculture & Renewable Natural Resource Education
- Art
- Business
- Business/Marketing Education
- Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
- Drama
- Early Childhood Education
- English Language Arts
- Family & Consumer Studies
- Foreign Language
- Gifted and Talented
- Health
- Instructional Technology Teacher with Instructions and corresponding Worksheet and Work Experience Worksheet
- Linguistically Diverse Education
- Linguistically Diverse Education-Bilingual
- Marketing Education
- Mathematics
- Music
- Physical Education
- School Librarian
- Science
- Social Studies
- Special Education Generalist and corresponding Worksheet
- Speech
- Technology Education (Industrial Arts)
- Trade and Industrial Education
One of the following two requirements must be met to
qualify for the added endorsement being
sought:
Academic Credit: Verification of 24 semester hours with a
minimum GPA of 2.6 from an accepted institution of higher education or
the equivalent as determined by the Department of Education through
transcript review.
*College
Credit *In-service *Workshops *Relevant
Work Experience
*Dantes exams: www.getcollegecredit.com *Clep
exams: www.collegeboard.com/clep
Note: Please include a detailed account of contact hours
spent in each professional development activity submitted for credit.
Fifteen contact hours is equivalent to one semester hours of credit. A
maximum of 6 semester hours of credit may be granted for professional
development activities.
OR
Assessment: Applicants must pass a
PLACE® exam or PRAXIS II exam in the
endorsement area being sought. The PLACE® exam has
been approved by the Colorado State Board of Education
(CSBE) for all endorsement areas. The only Praxis II
exams that have been approved by the CSBE are: Elementary
Education (Test 10014 or 5014), English (Test 10041), Mathematics
(Test 10061), Science (Test 10435), and Social Studies
(Test 10081). You can register on-line for PLACE exams at www.place.nesinc.com and for Praxis II exams at www.ets.org/praxis/prxaboutII.html.
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