Educator Licensing - Business Core

Business Core
Endorsement/SAEP Application - PDF

Note: Please complete interactive PDF form electronically.  Once completed, print and send in form as outlined in application instructions.

Minimum Endorsement Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, and
• Existing CTE/APP, CTE, or Secondary Education License, and
• Transcripts showing twenty-four (24) semester credits completed from the required course list. See below.

Minimum SAEP Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, and
• Existing CTE/APP, CTE, or Secondary Education License, and
• An assignment that requires the requested endorsement, and
• Transcripts showing a minimum of nine (9) semester hours of completed course work related to the requested endorsement, and
• A plan submitted to and approved by the state specialist outlining all requirements and when/where they will be (or have been) fulfilled.

Required Courses

• Accounting - 3 credits
• Business Law - 3 credits
• Business Writing - 3 credits
• Finance - 3 credits
• Microeconomics - 3 credits
• Macroeconomics - 3 credits
• Management - 3 credits
• Marketing - 3 credits

The Business Core Endorsement allows an educator to teach the following courses:

• Accounting I, II, III, and IV
• Banking and Finance
• Business Communication I and II
• Business Law
• Business Management
• Business Math
• Economics - Business
• Entrepreneurship - Business
• General Financial Literacy - General Core Course
• Leadership Principles
• Personal Finance

Updated September 3, 2009