TEACH Grant High-Needs Fields
More than half of the classes you will teach during each school year must be in a high-need field. Teacher shortage areas that qualify for TEACH service requirements are identified in the Teacher Shortage Areas annual listing This link will take you to an external website in a new tab.. High-need fields across the nation are in schools that serve low-income students.
For purposes of the TEACH Grant program, high-need fields are:
If you plan to teach in a high-need field included in the Nationwide Listing, that field must be listed for the state where you teach either:
- at the time you begin your qualifying teaching service in that field, even if the field later loses its high-need designation for the state in which you are teaching; or
- at the time you received a TEACH Grant, even if the field is no longer designated as high need for the state where you are teaching at the time you begin your qualifying teaching service in that field.
Note: The Nationwide Listing This link will take you to an external website in a new tab.includes both subject areas and geographic shortage areas. To qualify based on teaching in a high-need field included in the Nationwide Listing, you must teach in a listed subject shortage area, not a geographic shortage area.
For 2018-19, the following are additional California Statewide Academic Disciplines or Subject Matter fields identified in the Nationwide Listing as TEACH Grant-eligible fields:
- English/drama/humanities
- mathematics/computer education
- science
- self-contained class
- special education (including State Special Schools)