Licensure and Endorsements

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individuals at UO COE Education Career Fair 2023

Initial Educator Preparation

The College of Education offers educator preparation programs leading to an Oregon preliminary teaching license. Pre-service programs offer preparation in the following endorsement areas:

Elementary – Multiple Subjects (includes Embedded ESOL Endorsement)

Music Education (K-12)

Secondary/MidHigh (includes Embedded ESOL Endorsement)

MEd in K12 Physical Education (includes Embedded ESOL Endorsement)

Special Education – Early Intervention and Early Childhood

Special Education – Generalist (K-12)


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Advanced Educator Preparation

The College of Education offers programs allowing educators to add credentials or endorsements to their preliminary teaching license, and/or prepare for new professional roles. Students in these programs already hold a preliminary teaching license. Some programs have *online options.

Administrator Programs:

Elementary – Multiple Subjects

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)

Single Subject Endorsements in the areas of:

  • English Language Arts
  • Math (Advanced or Foundational)
  • Science (Integrated Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics)
  • Social Science
  • World Language (French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, or Spanish)

Special Education: Early Intervention and Early Childhood

Special Education: Generalist (K-12)

Special Education: Reading Intervention


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Other School Professionals

School Psychology: The School Psychology program offers a master’s (specialist-level) program and a 5-year doctoral program in School Psychology, with both programs leading to state PreK-12 licensure and national certification as a school psychologist.

Speech Language Pathology: Graduates of the master's program become accredited speech language pathologists and most work directly with children, adolescents, or adults with a variety of speech, language, communication, cognition, and swallowing disorders.