Alaska Educator Qualifications (Formerly Highly Qualified)

Alaska no longer requires teachers to be "Highly Qualified" per Alaska regulations and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Under NCLB, teachers had to meet the high qualification requirement which was used for out-of-field. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which is the current authorization of ESEA, has eliminated highly qualified. In Alaska's ESSA State Plan, the required out-of-field definition is being determined.

The Alaska Department of Education & Early Development (DEED) is proposing the following definition:

Out-of-field teacher: A teacher teaching in a subject area that they are not endorsed to teach.

As Alaska transitions to implement ESSA, teachers are encouraged to continue to demonstrate content knowledge in the subject areas that they have teaching assignments. In addition, teachers are able to add endorsements with passing scores on the endorsement-related content area exam and 2 years of teaching experience in the content area. This option is only available where content area exam(s) have been identified and not for elementary, reading or special education.

Visit Alaska Teacher Certification for more information about educator qualification requirements in Alaska.

Find your certification area below to determine which test(s) you need to take. For test prep materials, click the test title. Once you know which tests you should take, schedule your test.

Unless it’s specifically stated that a calculator is permitted or required for a particular test, you can’t use a calculator on any Praxis tests (see Calculator Use).

Score reporting

If you test in Alaska at a test center or at home, and your Praxis profile address is in Alaska, your score report will be sent automatically to the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development.
If you test outside Alaska or your Praxis profile address is not in Alaska, your scores are NOT automatically sent to the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development. To have your scores sent to the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, you must select the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development (state code 7027) as a score recipient when you register.
For all methods of Praxis testing, to request additional score reports you must select the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development (state code 7027) with each additional score report request.

Tests required for specific licensure areas

To Be Certified in	You Need to Take	Test Code	Qualifying Score
Elementary Developmental K–8	Elementary Education: Content Knowledge (On-screen scientific calculator provided)	5018	163
	or
	Elementary Education: Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment	5017	153
	or
	Elementary Education Assessment (On-screen calculator provided)	5006	¹
	Mathematics and Science Subtest	5008	158
	Reading and Language Arts & Social Studies Subtest	5007	160
	1 To pass the Elementary Education Assessment test you must receive a passing score on each subtest. If you wish to take both subtests (5007, 5008) at the same time, select Elementary Education Assessment (5006) when registering. If you wish to take or retake an individual subtest, you may register to take just that subtest.
	or
	Elementary Education: Multiple Subjects (On-screen scientific calculator provided)	5001	²
	Reading and Language Arts Subtest	5002	157
	Mathematics Subtest (On-screen scientific calculator provided)	5003	157
	Social Studies Subtest	5004	155
	Science Subtest (On-screen scientific calculator provided)	5005	159
	2 To pass the Elementary Education: Multiple Subjects test you must receive a passing score on each subtest. If you wish to take all four subtests (5002, 5003, 5004, 5005) at the same time, select Elementary Education: Multiple Subjects (5001) when registering. If you wish to take or retake an individual subtest, you may register to take just that subtest.
	or
	Elementary Education: Content Knowledge for Teaching (On-screen scientific calculator provided)	7811	³
	Reading and Language Arts CKT Subtest	7812	161
	Mathematics CKT Subtest (On-screen scientific calculator provided)	7813	150
	Science CKT Subtest	7814	154
	Social Studies CKT Subtest	7815	159
	3 To pass the Elementary Education: Content Knowledge for Teaching test you must receive a passing score on each subtest. If you wish to take all four subtests (7812, 7813, 7814, 7815) at the same time, select Elementary Education: Content Knowledge for Teaching (7811) when registering. If you wish to take or retake an individual subtest, you may register to take just that subtest.
Elementary Math Specialist	Elementary Education: Math Specialist (On-screen four-function calculator provided)	5037	153

To Be Certified in	You Need to Take	Test Code	Qualifying Score
Middle School 6–8	Middle School: Content Knowledge (Calculator allowed)	5146	140
Middle School English Language Arts 6–8	Middle School English Language Arts	5047	164
Middle School Mathematics 6–8	Middle School Mathematics (On-screen graphing calculator provided)	5164	157
Middle School Science 6–8	Middle School Science	5442	152

To Be Certified in	You Need to Take	Test Code	Qualifying Score
Art	Art: Content Knowledge	5134	158
Biology	Biology	5236	154
Chemistry	Chemistry	5246	146
Earth Science	Earth and Space Sciences	5572	154
Economics	Economics	5911	150
English	English Language Arts: Content Knowledge	5038	167
	or
	English Language Arts: Content and Analysis	5039	168
General Science	General Science	5436	141
Geography	Geography	5921	149
Geometry	Geometry (On-screen graphing calculator provided)	5163	148
Government and Political Science	Government/Political Science	5931	149
History	World and U.S. History: Content Knowledge	5941	141
Mathematics	Mathematics (On-screen graphing calculator provided)	5165	159
Music	Music: Content Knowledge	5113	154
Physical Education	Physical Education: Content Knowledge	5091	146
Physical Science	Physical Science	5485	157
	or
	Chemistry	5246	146
	or
	General Science	5436	141
	or
	Physics	5266	145
Physics	Physics	5266	145
Social Studies	Social Studies: Content Knowledge	5081	152
Speech Communication	Speech Communication: Content Knowledge	5221	146
Theatre	Theatre	5641	157

To Be Certified in	You Need to Take	Test Code	Qualifing Score
Health Occupations	Health Occupations	5052	152
Reading Specialist	Reading Specialist	5302	165
School Counselor	School Counselor	5422	159
School Librarian	School Librarian	5312	154
School Psychologist	School Psychologist	5403	155

To Be Certified in	You Need to Take	Test Code	Qualifying Score
Japanese	Japanese: World Language	5661	156
French	French: World Language	5174	162
German	German: World Language	5183	163
Russian	Russian: World Language	5671	130
Spanish	Spanish: World Language	5195	168

TBA: To Be Announced. All TBA scores will be available once the test is required.

Visit Alaska Teacher Certification for more information about educator certification requirements in Alaska.

This page is a supplement to The Praxis^® Tests Information Bulletin (PDF).

Alaska Educator Qualifications (Formerly Highly Qualified)

Score reporting

Tests required for specific licensure areas

Early Childhood and Elementary Education

Middle School Education

Secondary Education

All Grades

World Languages