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Comparison of Missouri areas of certification to National Board areas

An applicant for a Missouri certificate of license to teach who has successfully obtained certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) and possess good moral character may be granted a Missouri certificate of license to teaching their area of NBPTS certification most closely aligned with the current areas of certification approved by the board. The certificate of license to teach will be an initial professional classification (IPC) or a career continuous professional classification (CCPC), if the applicant possesses four (4) years of DESE approved teaching experience. A comparison of Missouri Areas of Certification to those areas of National board Certification is listed below.

 

National Board Areas of Certification

Missouri Areas of Certification

Subject Area

Age Level

Subject Areas

Grade Level
  • Early Childhood/Generalist

3-8
  • Early Childhood

Birth- 3
  • Middle Childhood/generalist

7-12
  • Elementary

1-6
  • Early through Middle Childhood/Art

3-12
  • Art

K-9
  • Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood/Career & Technical Education

11-18+
  • Art

K-12
  • Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood/Career & Technical Education
11-18+
  • Certificates corresponded to specialty areas clusters:
 
    • Agriculture & Environmental Science

 
    • Agriculture Education

5-9 & 9-12
    • Business/Marketing, Information Management, & Entrepreneurship

 
    • Business Education
      Marketing Education

5-9 & 9-12
9-12
    • Family & Consumer Science

 
    • Family & Consumer Sciences

B-12
    • Technology Education

 
    • Industrial Technology

5-9 & 9-12
  • Early Adolescence/English Language Arts

11-15
  • Language Arts

5-9
  • Adolescence & Young Adulthood/English Language Arts

11-18+
  • English

9-12
  • Early & Middle Childhood/English as a New Language

3-12
  • English for Speaker of Other Languages

K-12
  • Early Adolescence through Young Adult/English as a New Language

11-18+
  • English for Speaker of Other Languages

K-12
  • Early Childhood through Young Adulthood/Exceptional Needs

Birth-21+
  • Certificates correspond to 5 paths:

 
    • Early Childhood

Birth-8
    • Early Childhood Special Education

Birth-3
    • Mild/Moderate

5-21+
    • Mild/Moderate Cross Categorical

K-12
    • Severe/Multiple

5-21+
    • Severely Developmentally Disordered

B-12
    • Visual Impairments

Birth-21+
    • Blind/Partially Sighted

B-12
    • Deaf/Hard of Hearing

Birth-21+
    • Deaf/Hearing Impaired

B-12
  • Early Childhood through Young Adulthood/Library Media

3-18+
  • Library Media Specialist

K-12
  • Early Adolescence/Mathematics

11-15
  • Mathematics

5-9
  • Adolescence & Young Adulthood/Mathematics

11-18+
  • Mathematics

9-12
  • Early & Middle Childhood/Music or Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood/Music
11-18+
  • Certificates correspond to performance perspective:
 
    • Band or Orchestra

 
    • Instrumental Music

K-12
    • Vocal

 
    • Vocal Music

K-12
  • Early & Middle Childhood/Physical Education

3-12
  • Physical Education

K-9
  • Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood/Physical Education

11-18+
  • Physical Education

K-12
  • Early Adolescence/Science

11-15
  • General Science 

5-9
  • Adolescence & Young Adulthood/Science

14-18+
  • General Science

9-12
  • Early Adolescence & Young Adult/Social Studies—History

11-15
  • Social Science

9-12
  • Adolescence & Young Adult/Social Studies—History

11-18+
  • Social Science

9-12
  • Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood/World Languages Other than English

11-18+
  • Certificates correspond to target language:

 
    • French

 
    • French

K-12
    • Spanish

 
    • Spanish

K-12