Life Science: Licensing for Secondary School Teaching (9-12)

Licensing for Secondary School Teaching

Biology majors pursuing a teaching license at the 9-12 level must complete a standard Biology major in addition to the undergraduate education department courses required for a Minnesota teaching license (see Education minor with teaching license). The methods course required for this secondary license is EDU 5740: Teaching Science in the Middle and High Schools (5-12).

To extend this license to include teaching science in grades 5-8 requires two additional courses:

• PHYS 101: Astronomy (to be taken at Augsburg)
• GEOL 150: Dynamic Earth and Global Change (to be taken at Macalester)