Teach Iowa Scholar (TIS) Program

The following fields have been designated by the Iowa Department of Education as shortages in Iowa for the 2022-2023 school year. Teachers who teach in these areas and whose license has the required endorsement and has eligible BEDS codes can qualify for TIS awards. The list below shows the designated shortage areas in order from highest need to lowest need which factors into Awarding Priority:

1. Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Birth to 21
2. Visually Impaired: Birth to 21
3. Instructional Strategist I Mild/Moderate: K-8 and 5-12
4. Instructional Strategist II BD/LD and ID
5. Professional School Counselor: K-8, 5-12
6. Mathematics: 5-12
7. Business - All: 5-12
8. Early Childhood Education
9. Family and Consumer Sciences: 5-12
10. Physical Education
11. World Languages - All
12. Industrial Technology: 5-12
13. Earth Science
14. Physics: 5-12
15. Agriculture
16. All Science: 5-12
17. ELA
18. Music
19. Teacher Librarian: K-8, 5-12, K-12
20. Art
21. All Social Studies
    

Awards will be granted according to the following priority:

1. Teachers from all prior years renewing their TIS award
2. Teachers who graduated from a teacher preparation program during the 2021-22, 2020-21, 2019-20, 2018-19, and 2017-18 school years and who are working full-time in 2022-23, in shortage areas. If all teachers in category 2 can't be funded, teachers will be ranked according to:
1. Shortage area in which they teach
2. Iowa resident status
3. Date of application

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)