Certification Add-on Approach
The Add-on Approach is Great News!
Teachers now have an opportunity to add on certifications to existing certifications. For example, a teacher holding a valid Alabama Professional Educator Certificate in Physical Education can now add on Health or a teacher holding a valid Alabama Professional Educator Certificate in Early Childhood can now add on Elementary Education.
General Information:
- An individual who holds valid Alabama Professional Educator Certificate in a teaching field may add selected fields to their existing certificate through this approach.
- The certificate issued through this approach will be a bachelor’s degree level certificate.
- If certification in a core academic subject area is issued through this approach, highly qualified status in the area at the grade level of that certification will also be issued.
- Two full scholastic years of full-time, classroom teaching experience in a P-12 setting is required. Partial years cannot be combined to meet this requirement.
Selected teaching fields and grade levels are listed below:
Teaching Field |
Grade Levels |
Agriscience Education |
6-12 |
Biology |
6-12 |
Business/Marketing Education |
6-12 |
Career Technologies |
6-12 |
Chemistry |
6-12 |
Driver and Traffic Safety Education |
6-12 |
Early Childhood Education |
P-3 |
Elementary Education |
K-6 |
English as a Second Language |
P-12 |
English Language Arts |
6-12 |
English Language Arts |
4-8 |
Family and Consumer Sciences Education |
6-12 |
French |
6-12 or P-12 |
General Science |
6-12 |
General Science |
4-8 |
General Social Science |
6-12 |
General Social Science |
4-8 |
Geography |
6-12 |
German |
6-12 or P-12 |
Health Education |
6-12 |
History |
6-12 |
Latin |
6-12 or P-12 |
Mathematics |
6-12 |
Mathematics |
4-8 |
Music, Choral |
P-12 |
Music, Instrumental |
P-12 |
Physical Education |
P-12 |
Physics |
6-12 |
Spanish |
6-12 or P-12 |
Theatre |
P-12 |
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