Supplementary Authorization
Supplementary authorizations allow the holder to add one or more subjects to his or her teaching credential. There are two types of supplementary authorizations: introductory and specific. The introductory supplementary authorizations may be added to the Single Subject, Standard Secondary, and Special Secondary (in academic subject areas only) Teaching Credentials and authorize the holder to teach the supplementary subject matter content typically included in curriculum guidelines and textbooks for study in grades 9 and below. This allows an employer to assign a teacher with an introductory supplementary authorization to teach a class in which the curriculum is for grades 9 and below but the students in the class may be in grades 10-12. Supplementary authorizations added to a Multiple Subject or Standard Elementary Teaching Credential authorize the holder to teach departmentalized classes related to the supplementary authorization listed on their credential in grades 9 and below. Elementary credentials will list the same subjects but the word “Introductory” is not listed.
The specific supplementary authorizations may be added to Single Subject, Standard Secondary and Special Secondary (academic subject areas only. It authorizes the holder to teach the specific subject in grades preschool, kindergarten-12, and classes organized primarily for adults.
Supplementary Authorizations may be added to:
Single Subject Credentials
Multiple Subject Credentials
Standard Elementary and Secondary Credentials
University Internship Credentials (Multiple and Single Subject only)
Special Secondary Credentials in Academic Subject:
Art, Business Education, Homemaking, Industrial Arts, Music, Physical Education, Speech Arts, and Vocational Agriculture
Supplementary Authorizations may not be added to:
General Kindergarten-Primary, Elementary, Junior High, or Secondary Credentials
District Intern Credentials
Special Secondary Credentials in Non-Academic Subject:
Aviation, Blind, Deaf, Lip Reading, Nursing Education, Partially Sighted Child, Public Safety and Accident Prevention Including Driver Education and Driver Training, Sciences Basic to Medicine, Correction of Speech Defects, and Mentally Retarded
Special Education Credentials (current or previous)
Adult or Vocational Credentials
Career Technical Education Teaching Credentials
Acceptable course work must be:
completed with a grade of "C" or better ("credit," "passing," or "satisfactory" is acceptable),
applicable toward (elective or non-elective) a bachelor's degree or a higher degree (non- remedial),
taken at a regionally accredited institution,
granted regular quarter or semester unit credit, and
from the subject department of the supplementary authorization being sought.
The following course work may be used if it meets the criteria listed above:
community college, correspondence, on-line, or extension course work, or
advanced placement units (requires an official transcript of the course and written verification from the college or university admission or registrar’s office that the units are applicable towards a bachelor's degree and are in the subject category of the requested supplementary authorization).
Unacceptable course work:
course work not applicable toward a bachelor's degree or a higher degree (remedial),
professional development or continuing education units,
in-service training or workshops,
education and education methodology course work unless:
a letter is provided from the chair of the subject area department stating that the course is equivalent to one offered by that department OR
the supplementary subject requested is computer science and applications and if the course work has been used to meet a requirement to earn a clear credential such as Computers in an Educational Setting, and
course work from a department other than that of the supplementary authorization being sought unless a letter is provided from the chair of the subject area department stating that the course is equivalent to one offered by that department.
An applicant will qualify for a supplementary authorization upon the completion of one of the following:
Twenty semester units or ten upper division semester units, or the equivalent quarter units, of non-remedial course work in the subject requested. For introductory subjects, it requires at least one course in each of the content areas listed; the balance of the ten or twenty units may be in any course within the subject category. For specific subjects, the same unit total is required.
A collegiate major from a regionally accredited college or university in a subject directly related to the subject to be listed on the credential.
Supplementary Authorization in Computer Science
Introductory
Computational thinking: involves solving problems and designing systems, using fundamental computing concepts such as decomposition, data representation, generalization/abstraction, and algorithms.
Computing practice and programming: includes expertise in at least one block--- based, visual (drag-and-drop) programming language (e.g., Alice, Blockly, Kodu, Logo, Scratch, Snap!) or a modern, high-level programming language.
Computer and communications devices: covers the major components and functions of digital devices and the computing systems they compose.
Impacts of computing (e.g., social, ethical, legal): includes the social, ethical, and legal issues and impacts of computing, as well as the contributions of computer science to current and future innovations in the arts, business, humanities, medicine, and science. These topics may be included within courses that cover any of the other content areas.
Specific
Computer programming: includes expertise in at least one modern, high-level programming language (e.g., Python, Java, C/C++/C#).
Data structures and algorithms: covers data representation, abstraction, searching and sorting in the context of solving problems using programming and computational tools.
Digital devices, systems and networks: covers computer and communication devices and the systems they compose, including the concepts and abstractions that enable stand-alone, networked, and mobile digital devices to operate and communicate.
Software design: covers the process of planning, engineering and implementing a software system to solve a problem, typically using both a design and a programming methodology, such as object-oriented and functional approaches.
Impacts of computing (e.g., social, ethical, legal): includes the social, ethical, and legal issues and impacts of computing, as well as the contributions of computer science to current and future innovations in the arts, business, humanities, medicine, and science. These topics may be included within courses that cover any of the other content areas.
The balance of the units may be in any course that falls within the academic department for that subject category. Computer classes in the Education Department may be used including a pedagogy course in computer science from either department.
Note: Any individual holding a Mathematics Single Subject credential is automatically allowed to teach computer science classes.
