Designated Teacher Shortage Areas

Designated teacher shortage areas are identified by the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) on an annual basis. Teacher shortage areas can be a statewide teacher license field, an economic development region within the state or a teacher license field within an economic development region. All teacher shortage areas are identified by the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). For 2017, the teacher shortage areas identified by MDE are:

Economic Development Region Shortage Areas (Map)

• Region 1 - Northwest
• Region 3 - Arrowhead
• Region 5 - North Central
• Region 6E - Southwest Central
• Region 7E - East Central
• Region 8 - Southwest
• Region 9 - South Central
• Region 10 - Southeast

Statewide License Fields Shortage Areas

• Agricultural Education
• Bilingual/Bicultural Education
• Business Education
• Chemistry
• Communication Arts and Literature
• Communication Technology Careers
• Computers/Keyboarding
• Construction Careers
• Dance
• Dance and Theatre
• Deaf or Hard of Hearing
• Driver Education
• Early Childhood Education
• Earth and Space Science
• Elementary Education
• English as a Second Language
• Family and Consumer Science
• Health Education
• Hospitality Service Careers
• Instrumental and Classroom Music
• Library Media Specialist
• Life Sciences
• Manufacturing Careers
• Mathematics
• Medical Careers
• Middle Level Science (Grades 5 - 8)
• Parent and Family Education
• Physical and Health Disabilities
• Physical Education
• Physics
• Pre-Primary
• Reading
• Reading Leader
• Social Studies
• Teacher Coordinator: Work-Based Learning
• Technology Education
• Theatre Arts
• Transportation Careers
• Visual Arts
• Vocal and Classroom Music

Special Education

• Academic and Behavioral Strategist
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Blind or Visually Impaired
• Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Oral-Aural Deaf Education)
• Developmental and Adapted Physical Education
• Developmental Disabilities
• Early Childhood
• Emotional Behavioral Disorders
• Learning Disabilities

World Languages and Cultures

• American Sign Language
• Arabic
• Chinese
• Dakota
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Hmong
• Italian
• Japanese
• Latin
• Norwegian
• Ojibwa
• Polish
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish

License Field Shortage Areas within each Economic Development Region