Health Endorsement

Any Exercise Science & Sport and School of Education students may add the Health Endorsement to a K-12 specialist-teaching license. A minimum of 18 credit hours of specific course work is necessary. The health education content area test must be passed and on file with ISBE in order to be eligible to add the health endorsement to your teaching license.

Specific course work for the endorsement follows:

18 credit hours of coursework with a grade of C- or better in any of the following areas:

• ES 130 - Prevention and Treatment of Athletic Injuries  
• ES 160 - Personal and Community Health 
• ES 200 - Drugs in Our Society 
• ES 206 - Foundations and Theory of Health Behavior and Fitness 
• ES 321 - Health and Pollution  
• ES 324 - Human Sexuality and Family Life  
• ES 325 - Growth and Motor Development  
• ES 328 - Health-Related Nutrition 
• ES 402 - Curriculum Development Methods and Assessment in Health Education  
• ES 415 - Mind Body Health      

Courses that teach the following concepts:

Consumer Health

Disease Prevention

Mental and Emotional Health

School Health

The Director of the School of Exercise Science & Sport may approve additional health and environmental courses.