The Computer Science endorsement coursework provides 6th-12th grades teachers with computer application understanding, such as hardware, software, networking, and use of computers in education. Completion of requirements may lead to a subsequent endorsement from the Illinois State Board of Education.
Computer Science Endorsement Scholarship
To qualify for a scholarship, teachers must be employed in McLean County and have one of the following professional educator licenses: grades 6-8, grades 6-12, or grades 9-12.
Requirements
- You must be accepted as a student at UIS with an active NetID and password before applying for the scholarship.
- Not yet a UIS student? Apply to UIS.
- Scholarship applications are open from Nov. 4, 2024 at noon CST through Feb. 14, 2025 at noon CST.
- Access the scholarship application.
Apply for Scholarship
Once you have logged in to the scholarship portal, please make note of the following:
- You will be prompted to complete the entire scholarship application.
- In the personal narrative section, please provide a short essay on your teaching experience and purpose of seeking this endorsement.
- There is a specific question in the application that asks: Are you a teacher in McLean County seeking a Computer Science Endorsement? This is the question that applies to you.
- You will be asked to upload a letter of support for your building or district administrator.
Contact Ryan Williams, Assistant Director of Strategic Initiatives for assistance - rwillia7@uis.edu; 217-206-7516
Degree Opportunity
Add the endorsement courses to a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education, Middle Grades, or a Secondary Education program to earn this as a subsequent endorsement in addition to the teaching license. Current undergraduates students can add endorsement to their program of study.
Coursework enables students to:
- Explore the fundamental concepts of cybersecurity, be informed of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and threats, and practice techniques and gain tools for detecting and defending against cyber-attack.
- Examine file organizations and file access methods, as well as data redundancy.
- Study various data models including relational, heretical, network, and object-oriented.
- Cover topics such as number systems, sets, logic, functions and relations, combinations, permutations, probability, statistics, and discrete structures that are relevant to computer science.
- Learn structured programming techniques, the fundamentals concepts of computer networking with practical applications, and how to model threats to computer systems.
- Gain knowledge in the areas of data communications, networking technologies, OSI model, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP layers and protocols, Internet architecture.
- Meet ISBE’s requirement for earning a subsequent teaching endorsement in computer science.
Required Courses
- TEP 305 Technology for Teaching or EDL 517 Education Technology Leadership
- CSC 302 Discrete Structures
- CSC 501 Graduate Program Practicum
- CSC 470 Computer Science for Educators
- EDL 518 Educational Technology Systems
To reflect the updated requirements for the ISBE Computer Science endorsements, the UIS catalog will be updated for 2024-2025.