(a) A professional educator who is employed to devote a substantial portion of his time to instruction in one or more of the following subjects shall be deemed to serve in a special subject tenure area or areas encompassing such subject:

1. (1) art;
2. (2) business education—general;
3. (3) driver education;
4. (4) education of children with handicapping conditions—education of blind and visually handicapped children;
5. (5) education of children with handicapping conditions—education of deaf children;
6. (6) education of children with handicapping conditions—education of speech and hearing handicapped children;
7. (7) education of children with handicapping conditions—general special education tenure area (education of emotionally disturbed children; mentally retarded children; physically handicapped children; multiply handicapped children; and children with specifically defined learning disabilities);
8. (8) health;
9. (9) home economics—general;
10. (10) industrial arts—general;
11. (11) music;
12. (12) physical education and recreation;
13. (13) remedial reading;
14. (14) speech—remedial;
15. (15) English as a second language; and
16. (16) Computer science.

(b) A professional educator employed by a board of education or board of cooperative educational services to devote a substantial portion of his time to the provision of ancillary or supportive educational services in the following positions shall be deemed to serve in a special subject tenure area encompassing the duties of such position:

1. (1) school attendance teacher;
2. (2) school counseling and guidance;
3. (3) school dental hygienist;
4. (4) school media specialist;
5. (5) school media specialist (library);
6. (6) school media specialist (educational communications);
7. (7) school nurse teacher;
8. (8) school psychologist; and
9. (9) school social worker.

(c) A professional educator employed by a board of education or board of cooperative educational services to devote a substantial portion of his time to instruction in one of the following vocational subjects shall be deemed to serve in a special subject tenure area co-extensive with the certificate possessed by the individual at the time of the probationary appointment:

1. (1) agriculture;
2. (2) health occupations;
3. (3) home economics—occupational;
4. (4) occupational business education and distributive occupation subjects;
5. (5) technical subjects; and
6. (6) trade subjects.

(e) A professional educator employed by a board of cooperative educational services to devote a substantial portion of his time to the provision of instructional support services in one of the following areas shall be deemed to serve in one of the following special subject tenure areas encompassing the duties of such subject:

1. (1) instructional support services in mathematics;
2. (2) instructional support services in English language arts and literacy;
3. (3) instructional support services in science;
4. (4) instructional support services in special education;
5. (5) instructional support services in curriculum and differentiated instruction, incorporating the analysis of student performance data;
6. (6) instructional support services in the integration of technology into instructional practices;
7. (7) instructional support services in technical support for bilingual and English as a second language instruction for English language learners; and
8. (8) instructional support services in professional learning.