Teaching is about more than passing on knowledge. It’s about shaping the future.
At Bethel, we send out educators who are passionate about what they do and are ready to jump into a meaningful career serving today’s students. This program is for anyone who does not have a teaching license and is seeking an initial license to teach. We have a variety of focus areas: Business, Math, Communication Arts and Literature, Science, Social Studies, Spanish, French, TESOL, and Visual Arts. Bethel’s Teaching License is designed to meet the needs of working professionals without compromising standards for licensure or for the classroom.
Program Details
Teaching License: Business Education, Grades 5-12
Take your business and organizational skills, experience, and leadership into the classroom with a license that prepares you for state-level exams to teach.
Delivery: Face to Face
Teaching License: Communication Arts & Literature, Grades 5-12
Enhance your english and communication studies with a licensure that prepares you for state-level exams to teach middle or high school courses.
Delivery: Face to Face
Teaching License: General Science, Grades 5-8
Meet the demands in public schools for general science teachers by enhancing your education with a licensure that prepares you to lead today's students.
Delivery: Face to Face
Teaching License: Mathematics, Grades 5-12
Take your passion for mathematics and hone in on your skills through a licensure program that prepares you to meet state standards to teach in today's classroom.
Delivery: Face to Face
Teaching License: Science, Life Science Emphasis, Grades 9-12
Our faculty will model relevant teaching methods, expand on your skills, and prepare you for state exams to teach biology or any middle level science courses.
Delivery: Face to Face
Teaching License: Science, Physics Emphasis, Grades 9-12
Launch your career in physics by enhancing your education with a licensure that prepares you for state standardized testing to teach at the high school level.
Delivery: Face to Face
Teaching License: Social Studies, Grades 5-12
Start your career teaching history, government, and other social studies through a licensure that will prepare you for state-level exams to teach.
Delivery: Face to Face
Teaching License: TESOL, Grades 5-12
Supplement your linguistic and cultural studies with a licensure that prepares you for state exams, and become equipped to teach english to speakers of other languages.
Delivery: Face to Face
Teaching License: Visual Arts, Grades K-12
Hone your skills in a variety of art courses with tenured faculty who will prepare you for the relevant state-level exams to teach.
Delivery: Face to Face
Teaching License: World Languages & Cultures, Grades K-12
Further you language, culture, history, and literature studies with a licensure that prepares you teach successfully in today's classroom.
Delivery: Face to Face
Teacing License: Science, Chemistry Emphasis, Grades 9-12
Combine your chemistry studies with relevant licensure courses that prepare you for state exams to teach in today's classrooms.
Delivery: Face to Face
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Program Highlights
Optional start dates
We offer 2 start dates each year in April and August. Course schedules vary depending on your start date.
Two-track license options
Master’s track: Earn your teaching license as part of the M.A. in Teaching program.
Licensure-only track: Earn only the teaching license (typically 14-17 months).
Cohort model
The Teaching License program is offered through a cohort model where students move through their courses with the same group of peers. Most classes meet on Bethel’s main campus in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate working adults.
Outcomes
The Teaching License program is designed to interact with other future teachers through a cohort model that meets the needs of working professionals and prepares you to meet the requirements for licensure, including applications and exams.
Skills
Learn how to:
- Apply theories and practices of teaching
- Develop the best methods for your specific focus area
- Manage the needs of a diverse classroom of students
- Understand the connection between parent and student involvement
- Prepare your teaching portfolio