Licensure Programs
Indiana Teaching Licenses
Preparation Programs for Initial Teaching Licenses
For more information regarding Indiana University initial teaching licenses, please visit the following websites:
- Bloomington: http://education.indiana.edu/license-development/licensing/transition.html
- Indianapolis: http://education.iupui.edu/soe/programs/dual.aspx
Admission to Licensure Programs
Applicants to licensure programs must complete the graduate degree or licensure program application. Students who are currently in a School of Education graduate degree program for less than one year may submit an amended goal statement to apply for a certification program. One may apply for both a certification program and a master’s degree program on the same application. See "Admission to Graduate Programs" for application procedures and criteria.
Students pursuing both licensure and master's degrees will be advised by both the graduate licensure advisor and the assigned faculty advisor of the master's degree program.
Certification Students Applying for a Master's Degree
Students in certification programs who wish to pursue a master's degree must go through the standard process for admission to graduate study. Furthermore, in order to be accepted into any of the School of Education's specialization areas in which a master's degree may be earned, students must be admitted to a master's degree program in one of these specialization areas in the semester prior to the semester in which they intend to graduate and they must be officially registered in the semester in which they graduate.
Credit hours earned by a certification student who has been admitted to a master's degree program may or may not be counted in the student's master's program. The department chair or program head and the associate dean of graduate studies must approve the inclusion of courses taken while the student was earning credits toward certification but was not admitted to a master's degree program. Furthermore, a certification student, who has been admitted to a master's degree program, may use a maximum of 15 credits taken while the student was working on certification but was not admitted to the master's degree program.
Initial, Proficient Practitioner, and Accomplished Practitioner Licenses
REPA licenses became available for candidates completing standards-based, performance-focused programs beginning September 1, 2013. All students completing licensing programs after September 1, 2013 may be issued licensure under REPA.
Applying for a License
Upon completion of all degree and course requirements, state-mandated testing as required, CPR-AED certification, suicide prevention and other application procedures, candidates may submit their application online at the LVIS system: http://www.doe.in.gov/licensing/lvis.
For information regarding applying for a license in Bloomington:
Office of Teacher Education
School of Education, Room 1000
201 North Rose Avenue
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-1006
(812) 856-8500
edhelp@indiana.edu
For information regarding applying for a license in Indianapolis:
Education/Social Work, Room 3131
902 West New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5155
(317) 274-0645