Iowa Student Loan Teacher Education Loan Forgiveness Program
Current Iowa Teacher Subject Shortage Areas
To meet the subject-area qualification, teachers must meet both criteria:
- The specific grade level endorsement
- Teaching assignment in the subject-shortage area grade levels
Criteria examples:
| If You Are... |
Then You Will... |
| A teacher with a K – 8 math endorsement, teaching only sixth-grade math in a middle school setting, |
Not qualify. |
| A teacher with a 5 – 12 math endorsement and teaching only sixth-grade math, |
Qualify. |
Qualifying Subject Shortage Areas
The following tables define the qualifying subject shortage areas as designated by the Iowa Department of Education.
| Grade Level |
Teacher Shortage Subject Area |
| K – 12 |
- English language learners
- Talented and gifted
|
K – 8
5 – 12
K – 12
|
|
K – 8
5 – 12
|
|
| 5 – 12 |
- Agriculture
- Family and consumer science
- Foreign languages
- Industrial arts
- Mathematics
- Science (all)
|
| Grade Level |
Special Education Certification |
K – 8
5 – 12 |
- Instructional Strategist I
(Formerly K – 6 & 7 – 12 Multi-Categorical Resource and
K – 6 & 7 – 12 Special Class with Integration) |
|
K – 12
|
- Instructional Strategist II LD-BD
(Formerly K – 6 & 7 – 12 Learning Disabilities and
K – 6 & 7 – 12 Behavior Disorders)
- Instructional Strategist II MD
(Formerly K – 6 & 7 – 12 Mental Disabilities and
K – 12 Moderate/Severe/Profoundly Handicapped)
- Instructional Strategist II PD
(Formerly K – 6 Physically Handicapped) |
| Pk – K |
- Early Childhood Special Education
|
| Birth – 21 |
- Itinerant Hearing Impaired
- Itinerant Visually Impaired
|
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