Emotional and Behavioral Disorders License

Discover what’s next. In Bethel’s Emotional and Behavioral Disorders License program, you’ll gain the knowledge and skills to effectively help your students succeed. You’ll study research-based strategies and have opportunities to apply evidence-based instruction techniques in the classroom. Your courses will be taught by talented professors who incorporate firsthand knowledge and insights into their teaching, ensuring you receive current practices you can use today.

Program details

Our Emotional and Behavioral Disorders License program prepares you to serve K-12 students who have been identified with mild to severe emotional and behavior disorders.

If you already hold a special education license in one disability category, you can complete this program as an add-on license. By adding the Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities License, you'll be able to work with a wider range of students with disabilities. You will also broaden your opportunities within your district, or it could lead to new possibilities. And additional credits gained through an add-on license help educators move up on the salary scale. You can earn an add-on license in six to nine months. If you are working in an environment in the license category you're pursuing, you'll be able to complete most practicum requirements on the job.

If you're not already a licensed teacher, you will have to complete the Standards of Effective Practice concentration, which meets the Minnesota Standards of Effective Practice, a requirement for every Tier 3 and Tier 4 K-12 licensed teacher in Minnesota.