How do I become a Special Education Teacher?

If you want to become certified to teach Special Education (Students with Disabilities), the GSE offers the following options. 

1. If you already have a NJ Standard Instructional Certificate or a Certificate of Eligibility with Advanced Standing, you can complete our non-degree Special Education Endorsement Program, leading to NJ Teacher of Students with Disabilities Certification. 
2. If you do not hold an initial teaching certification, then you need to apply one of our Post Baccalaureate Master’s with Initial Certification Programs and then complete the non-degree Special Education Endorsement Program, leading to NJ Teacher of Students with Disabilities Certification.  We offer Initial Certification in Biological Science, Elementary Education, English, Foreign Language, Mathematics, Physical Science or Physics, and Social Sciences.  Unfortunately we do not offer initial certification in Special Education.

For more information and program sheets on the Master's and Endorsement programs, please contact the Office of Academic Affairs at 732-932-7496 x8923, teached@rutgers.edu, or GSE / 10 Seminary Place, room 110 / New Brunswick, NJ  08901.