NYSED has issued guidance for obtaining emergency certificates in educational leadership services (School Building Leader, School District Leader, School District Business Leader). Please review the NYSED guidance and instructions. Applicants must select the "Emergency COVID-19” as the certificate type during the application process in TEACH.
Instructions and Help
Select the level of the degree you are pursuing from the lists below. If you are seeking undergraduate and graduate program codes, you will be required to obtain student information sheets for both programs.
If you need technical support for the TEACH system, refer to the TEACH Help Documents or contact the Office of Teaching Initiatives. If you need help navigating the system, or you are pursuing an alternate pathway, please contact Career Services for assistance. Questions regarding degree conferral and institutional recommendations may be addressed to Registrar's Office. Please also refer to SUNY Cortland’s Teacher Certification page for additional guidance and support.
Important: There are several "Approved Teacher Preparation Program Pathways" to choose from. If this is your very first teaching certificate application, then choose: "Pathway: Approved Teacher Preparation Program". If you already have an Initial teaching certificate, please choose: "Pathway: Approved Teacher Prep Program – Additional Certificate". If you already have an Initial teaching certificate in this title and are applying for your Professional certificate in the same title, please choose: "Pathway: Approved Teacher Prep Program – Certificate Progression".
Years of Attendance
The TEACH online application requires you to provide your years of attendance and your graduation date. Use this chart to lookup your dates.
Undergraduate Programs
Students are advised to have their transcript available when completing the online TEACH account creation and application process. The listings below are in alphabetical order by title. Where a former program indicates the inactivation date, that is the date the program stopped accepting new students. Students matriculated in these programs may have degree conferral (graduation) dates beyond the listed year.
Active Programs
- BA Adolescence Education: English (22929, BA_AEE/AEN)
- BA Adolescence Education: French (22932, BA_AFR)
- BA Adolescence Education: French and Spanish (30649, BA_AFS)
- BA Adolescence Education: Mathematics (22918, BA_AEM)
- BA Adolescence Education: Physics (22927, BA_APH)
- BA Adolescence Education: Physics and Mathematics (23378, BA_APM)
- BA Adolescence Education: Spanish (22931, BA_ASP)
- BA Adolescence Education: Social Studies (22930, BA_SSA/SST)
- BA Teaching English as a Second Language (29720, BA_ESL_CRT)
- BS Adolescence Education: Biology (22920, BS_ABI)
- BS Adolescence Education: Chemistry (22922, BS_ACH/ACM)
- BS Adolescence Education: Earth Science (22924, BS_AES)
- BS Adolescence Education: Mathematics (22919, BS_AEM)
- BS Adolescence Education: Physics (22928, BS_APH)
- BS Adolescence Education: Physics and Mathematics (23377, BS_APM)
- BS Early Childhood and Childhood Education (23373, BS_ECD)
- BS Inclusive Childhood Education (36629, BS_IEC)
- BS Inclusive Early Childhood Education (23375, BS_ECI)
- BSED Health Education (23375, BSED_HEC)
- BSED Physical Education (23376, BSED_PEM/PEM_ADPE/PEM_OAE)
Former Programs
- BA Childhood Education (23369, BA_CED,Through 2007)
- BA Early Childhood and Childhood Education (23372, BA_ECC, Through 2007)
- BA Early Childhood Education (23371, BA_ECE,Through 2007)
- BS Childhood Education (23370, BS_EDC/CED/CHD, Through 2018)
- BS Early Childhood and Childhood Education (23373, BS_DEC/ECC/EDD, Through 2018)
- BS Early Childhood Education (23374, BS_ECE/ECH/EDE, Through 2018)
- BS Inclusive Special Education 1-6 (BS_ISE, Through 2017)
- BS Special Education and Childhood Education (BS_SPC, Through 2005)
- BS Speech and Language Disabilities (BS_SLD, Through 2017)
- BSED Physical Education (23376, BSED_PEC, Through 2012)
Master's Degree Programs
Students are advised to have their transcript available when completing the online TEACH account creation and application process.
- MAT Adolescence Education Biology (25114, MAT_ABI)
- MAT Adolescence Education Mathematics (25109, MAT_AEM)
- MAT Adolescence English (25106, MAT_AEN)
- MS Communication Science and Disorders (33410, MS_CSD_CERT)
- MSED Adolescence Education Biology With Extension (25121, MSED_ABI)
- MSED Adolescence Education Earth Science With Extension (25116, MSED_AES_MCH)
- MSED Adolescence Mathematics (25118, MSED_AEM )
- MSED Adolescence Mathematics With Extension (25118, MSED_AEM_MCH)
- MSED Adolescence Physics (25120, MSED_APH)
- MSED Childhood Education (25101, MSED_CED)
- MSED Health Education (25113, MSED_HEC)
- MSED in Social Studies (25107, MSED_SSA_GRY/SSA_HIS)
- MSED in Literacy Birth to Grade 12 (25102, MSED_LTE)
- MSED in Physical Education, Initial Certification in Another Area (25110, MSED_PEC)
- MSED in Physical Education, Initial Certification in Physical Education (25110, MSED_PEC/MSED_PEC_COA /MSED_PEC_ADP)
- MSED in Physical Education Leadership (37067, MSED_PEL)
- MSED Second Language Education French 7-12 (25100, MSED_SLED_FR)
- MSED Second Language Education Spanish 7-12 (25100, MSED_SLED_SP)
- MSED Teaching Students with Disabilities 1-6 (26909, MSED_TSD)
- MSED Teaching Students with Disabilities 1-6 with Sev/Mult Annotation (26909, MSED_TSD_SEV)
- MSED Teaching Students with Disabilities 7-12 (36469, MSED_TDA)
- MSED Teaching Students with Disabilities 7-12 with Sev/Mult Annotation (36469, MSED_TDA_SEV)
- MST Childhood Education (22928, MST_CHD)
- MST Health Education Track A (25112, MST_HEA_CRT)
- MST Physical Education (39290, MST_PHE)
Former Programs
- MSED in Literacy Grades 5-12 (43037, MSED_LED_5-12)
- MSED in Literacy Birth to Grade 6 (43037, MSED_LED_B-6)
Certificate of Advanced Study Programs
Students are advised to have their transcript available when completing the online TEACH account creation and application process.
- CAS School Building Leader and School District Leader (29159/29160, CAS_SBL_SDL)
- CAS School District Business Leader (29161, CAS_SDBL)