Kan. Admin. Regs. § 91-1-202 - Endorsements
(a) Each license
issued by the state board shall include one or more endorsements.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in
subsections (l) through (p), endorsements available for teaching at the early
childhood license level shall be as follows:
(1) Early childhood;
(2) early childhood unified;
(3) deaf or hard-of-hearing;
(4) prekindergarten general
education;
(5) visually impaired;
and
(6) school
psychologist.
(c) Except
as otherwise provided in subsections (l) through (p), endorsements available
for teaching at the early childhood through late childhood license level shall
be as follows:
(1) Elementary
education;
(2) elementary education
unified;
(3) English for speakers
of other languages;
(4)
gifted;
(5) high-incidence special
education; and
(6) low-incidence
special education.
(d)
Except as otherwise provided in subsections (l) through (p), endorsements
available for teaching at the late childhood through early adolescence license
level shall be as follows:
(1) English for
speakers of other languages;
(2)
English language arts;
(3)
gifted;
(4) high-incidence special
education;
(5) history, government,
and social studies;
(6)
low-incidence special education;
(7) mathematics;
(8) middle-level generalist; and
(9) science.
(e) Except as otherwise provided in
subsections (l) through (p), endorsements available for teaching at the early
adolescence through late adolescence and adulthood license level shall be as
follows:
(1) Advanced mathematics;
(2) agriculture;
(3) biology;
(4) business;
(5) chemistry;
(6) driver education;
(7) earth and space science;
(8) English for speakers of other
languages;
(9) English language
arts;
(10) family and consumer
science;
(11) general
mathematics;
(12) gifted;
(13) high-incidence special
education;
(14) history,
government, and social studies;
(15) journalism;
(16) low-incidence special
education;
(17) physics;
(18) psychology;
(19) secondary education unified;
(20) speech and theatre; and
(21) technology and engineering
education.
(f) Except as
otherwise provided in subsections (l) through (p), endorsements available for
teaching at the early childhood through late adolescence and adulthood level
shall be as follows:
(1) Art;
(2) deaf or hard-of-hearing;
(3) English for speakers of other
languages;
(4) gifted;
(5) health;
(6) high-incidence special
education;
(7) instrumental
music;
(8) low-incidence special
education;
(9) music;
(10) physical education;
(11) visually impaired;
(12) vocal music; and
(13) world language.
(g) Endorsements available for all school
leadership licenses shall be as follows:
(1)
Building leadership;
(2) director
of special education; and
(3)
district leadership.
(h)
Endorsements available for all school specialist fields shall be as follows:
(1) Library media specialist;
(2) reading specialist;
(3) school counselor;
(4) school psychologist; and
(5) teacher leader.
(i) Endorsements available for the visiting
international teacher license shall be issued in the content area for which the
individual is qualified and valid only for the local education agency approved
by the commissioner of education.
(j) Endorsements available for the restricted
teaching license shall be issued in the state board-approved content area and
valid only for the state board-approved local education agency.
(k) Endorsements available for the
limited-use teaching license shall be issued in the content area and valid only
for the employing local education agency.
(l) Endorsements available for the
provisional teaching endorsement license at the early childhood through late
childhood license level shall be as follows:
(1) English for speakers of other
languages;
(2) gifted;
(3) high-incidence special education;
and
(4) low-incidence special
education.
(m)
Endorsements available for the provisional teaching endorsement license at the
early childhood license level shall be as follows:
(1) Early childhood; and
(2) early childhood unified.
(n) Endorsements available for the
provisional teaching endorsement license at the late childhood through early
adolescence license level shall be as follows:
(1) English for speakers of other
languages;
(2) English language
arts;
(3) gifted;
(4) high-incidence special
education;
(5) history, government,
and social studies;
(6)
low-incidence special education;
(7) mathematics; and
(8) science.
(o) Endorsements available for the
provisional teaching endorsement license at the early adolescence through late
adolescence and adulthood license level shall be as follows:
(1) Advanced mathematics;
(2) agriculture;
(3) biology;
(4) business;
(5) chemistry;
(6) earth and space science;
(7) English for speakers of other
languages;
(8) English language
arts;
(9) family and consumer
science;
(10) general
mathematics;
(11) gifted;
(12) high-incidence special
education;
(13) history,
government, and social studies;
(14) journalism;
(15) low-incidence special
education;
(16) physics;
(17) psychology;
(18) speech and theatre; and
(19) technology and engineering
education.
(p)
Endorsements available for the provisional teaching endorsement license at the
early childhood through late adolescence and adulthood level shall be as
follows:
(1) Art;
(2) deaf or hard-of-hearing;
(3) English for speakers of other
languages;
(4) gifted;
(5) health;
(6) high-incidence special
education;
(7) instrumental
music;
(8) low-incidence special
education;
(9) music;
(10) physical education;
(11) visually impaired;
(12) vocal music; and
(13) world language.
(q) Endorsements available for provisional
school specialist endorsement license at all levels shall be as follows:
(1) Library media specialist;
(2) reading specialist; and
(3) school counselor.
(r) Each applicant for a license with a
low-incidence or high-incidence special education endorsement, or a gifted,
visually impaired, or deaf or hard-of-hearing endorsement, shall have
successfully completed one of the following:
(1) A state-approved program to teach general
education students; or
(2) a
professional education component that allows students to acquire competency in
the following:
(A) The learner and learning:
learner development, learning differences, and learning environments;
(B) content: content knowledge and
application of content;
(C)
instructional practice: assessment, planning for instruction, and instructional
strategies;
(D) professional
responsibility: professional learning and ethical practice, leadership, and
collaboration; and
(E) the ability
to apply the acquired knowledge to teach general education students.
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