N.J. Admin. Code § 6A:9B-9.2 - Authorizations-general

(a) Each teaching endorsement shall be required for the corresponding teaching assignment.

1. Each endorsement shall be valid for preschool through grade 12, with the following exceptions:

i. The elementary school teacher endorsement shall be valid in kindergarten through grade six. Any holder of the former teacher of elementary school kindergarten through grade five (K-5) endorsement now shall be authorized to teach kindergarten through grade six;

ii. The middle school with subject matter specialization endorsement shall be valid in grades five through eight;

iii. The preschool through grade three endorsement shall be valid in preschool through grade three; and

iv. The teacher of supplementary instruction in reading and mathematics, kindergarten through grade eight (K-8) shall be valid in kindergarten through grade eight.

2. Teachers with English endorsements who taught English language arts courses prior to February 1976 may continue to teach the same course(s).

3. Teachers with elementary school endorsements valid in preschool through grade eight issued no later than March 1, 2008, may teach in preschool through grade eight in any employing school district, subject to the qualification for teaching three- and four-year-old children at N.J.A.C. 6A:9B-11.2(b). The teachers shall demonstrate to the school district they have content knowledge appropriate to the subject(s) taught.

i. All elementary school teachers certified to teach in kindergarten through grade five after January 20, 2004, and hired to teach in grades six through eight shall hold either the elementary school with subject-matter specialization or the subject-matter endorsement.

4. Teachers holding the teacher of the blind or partially sighted, teacher of the deaf or hard-of-hearing, and/or the teacher of handicapped endorsements issued prior to September 1, 2008, may teach students with disabilities in preschool through grade 12 if the teachers can demonstrate to the school district content knowledge appropriate to the content and the content level to be taught.

5. Teachers holding endorsements that are no longer issued may continue to teach in the subject areas in which the teacher was authorized to teach under the former rules.

6. Career and technical instructional endorsements issued prior to January 20, 2004, shall remain valid. The teachers may teach in the occupations for which they hold endorsements. A crosswalk of the former certificates that identifies under which new career clusters the teacher's certificate falls is available on the Department's website.

7. Holders of other endorsements may teach computer science, as defined in Standard 8.1 of the NJSLS, until July 1, 2027. After July 1, 2027, a teacher of computer science in preschool through grade 12 shall hold a computer science endorsement issued pursuant to N.J.A.C. 6A:9B-10.15.

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N.J. Admin. Code § 6A:9B-9.2

Amended by R.2004 d.306, effective 8/2/2004.
See: 36 N.J.R. 1636(a), 36 N.J.R. 3526(a).
In (a), inserted "with the exception of approved vocational programs" at the end of 1i, rewrote the first sentence in 8i, added new i and ii and recodified former i and ii as iii and iv in 9.
Amended by R.2005 d.110, effective 4/4/2005.
See: 36 N.J.R. 5044(a), 37 N.J.R. 1060(a).
In (a), inserted "office administration/office systems technology;" in 9i; in (c), added the last sentence.
Amended by R.2006 d.170, effective 5/15/2006.
See: 37 N.J.R. 4612(a), 38 N.J.R. 2126(a).
Rewrote (a)8i; deleted last sentence from (a)9i; added (a)9i(1) through (7), deleted last sentence from (a)9ii; added (a)9ii(1) through (4); added (a)9v; rewrote (b)2ii; recodified (b)2iii as (b)2v, added (b)2iii and iv; made a stylistic change in (b)2v; rewrote (b)4; and added (b)4i-(b)4iv.
Amended by R.2009 d.24, effective 1/5/2009.
See: 40 N.J.R. 4856(a), 41 N.J.R. 128(a).
In (a)1i, (a)1ii, (a)1iv and (a)1v, deleted "with the exception of approved vocational programs" from the end; added new (a)8i, recodified former (a)8i as (a)8ii; added new (a)9iii; recodified former (a)9iii through (a)9v as (a)9iv through (a)9vi; rewrote (a)9iv; in (b)2ii and (b)4ii, inserted ", computer and information literacy," and ", integrating educational technology where appropriate"; added new (b)5; recodified former (b)5 as (b)6; and deleted (c).
Petition for Rulemaking.
See: 42 N.J.R. 956(b), 1252(a), 1911(b).
Amended by R.2013 d.091, effective 7/1/2013.
See: 45 N.J.R. 152(a), 45 N.J.R. 1605(a).
Rewrote the section. Amended and recodified from N.J.A.C. 6A:9B-9.1 by 47 N.J.R. 2989(a), effective 12/7/2015 Amended by 55 N.J.R. 853(a), effective 5/1/2023