Career-Technical Teacher Licensure Certificate

Major Code: (4002)

Learning Outcomes for Certificate in Career Technical Education

The beginning teacher will learn:

• To establish strategies for classroom management that will promote positive relationships, cooperation, and a safe learning environment.
• To use proven researched teaching and learning practices.
• To put into practice a variety of instructional strategies.
• To plan formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate students and the learning process.
• To use a variety of activities, materials and resources to enhance student learning.
• Differences in the ways students learn and perform.
• The areas of exceptionality in student learning, the major challenges in each category, and the major classroom and instructional issues related to each category.
• Approaches for accommodating various learning styles, intelligences and exceptionalities.
• The influences of individual experiences, talents, prior learning, language, culture, and community values on student learning.
• Major legislation related to students’ rights and teacher responsibilities.

The primary purposes of the 27-hour Career-Technical Licensure program are to 1) provide a Licensure Program for Career-Technical teachers, 2) provide professional development opportunities for the certified career-technical teachers, and 3) to evaluate credentials of individuals desiring to become career-technical teachers. The 27-hour In-service Licensure Program for teachers recruited from business and industry requires actual employment in the occupational area for which approval for a teaching licensure is requested. Teachers must be knowledgeable and current in their field and currently employed by a District. The following is the required sequence of courses that must be completed at the University of Rio Grande for an Ohio Career-Technical License in the program for Career-Technical Teachers Recruited from Business and Industry.