Career-Technical Teaching Certificate (30 Hour)

**Program is pending final approval from the Department of Education and is not yet eligible to receive federal financial aid**

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 30-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 or those who will soon be
3. To evaluate credentials and learning goals of individuals desiring to become career-technical teachers. 

The 30-hour program is for teachers and instructors recruited from business and industry. Teachers must be knowledgeable and current in their field and currently employed or seeking employment by a District or other institution of education and learning. This 30-hour certificate builds upon the 9-hour short-term certificate for students wishing to eventually work toward an associate’s and bachelor’s degree.