WAC 181-77-041
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Agency filings affecting this section
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Requirements for candidates seeking career and technical education certification on the basis of business and industry work experience.
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Candidates for certification who have not completed approved programs set forth in WAC
181-82-322 shall complete the following requirements in addition to those set forth in WAC
181-79A-150 (1) and (2) and 181-79A-155 (1) and (2).
(1) Initial.
(a) Candidates for the initial certificate shall provide documentation of paid occupational experience in the specific career and technical education subcategory for which certification is sought.
(i) Three years (six thousand hours) is required.
(ii) One year (two thousand hours) must be within the past six years.
(iii) If all or part of the two thousand hours is more than six years old, an additional three hundred hours of recent (occurring in the last two years) occupational experience is required.
(b) Candidates for the initial certificate shall complete a professional educator standards board approved program under WAC
181-77A-029 in which they demonstrate competence in the general standards for all career and technical education teacher certificate candidates pursuant to WAC
181-77A-165, which include but are not limited to knowledge and skills in the following areas:
(i) General and specific safety;
(ii) Career and technical education teaching methods;
(iii) Occupational analysis;
(iv) Course organization and curriculum design;
(v) Philosophy of vocational education;
(vi) Personal student development and leadership techniques.
(c) Candidates for the initial certificate shall also demonstrate knowledge and skills in the following areas:
(i) School law;
(ii) Issues related to abuse as specified in WAC
181-77A-165(7).
(d) In addition, candidates for initial certification in career choices or coordinator of worksite learning shall demonstrate competency in knowledge and skills described in WAC
181-77A-180.
(2) Initial renewal. Candidates for renewal of the initial certificate must complete three quarter hours of credit or thirty clock hours of career and technical education educator training in the subject matter certified to teach since the initial certificate was issued or renewed.
(3) Continuing.
(a) Candidates for the continuing certificate shall have in addition to the requirements for the initial certificate at least nine quarter hours or ninety clock hours of career and technical education educator training in the career and technical education subject matter to be certified completed subsequent to the issuance of the initial certificate.
(b) Candidates for the continuing certificate shall provide as a condition for the issuance of a continuing certificate documentation of two years of teaching/coordination in the career and technical education subject matter certified to teach with an authorized employer -- i.e., school district(s) or skills center(s).
(4) Continuing certificate renewal.
(a) Candidates for renewal of the continuing certificate shall complete since the previous continuing certificate was issued one of the following:
(i) Six quarter hours or sixty clock hours of career and technical education educator training;
(ii) Three quarter hours or thirty clock hours of career and technical education educator training and three quarter hours or thirty clock hours of technical education/upgrading;
(iii) Three quarter hours or thirty clock hours of career and technical education educator training and three hundred hours of occupational experience.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.410.210. 08-16-004, § 181-77-041, filed 7/23/08, effective 8/23/08; 07-12-001, § 181-77-041, filed 5/23/07, effective 6/23/07; 06-14-010, § 181-77-041, filed 6/22/06, effective 7/23/06. 06-02-051, recodified as § 181-77-041, filed 12/29/05, effective 1/1/06. Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.410.010. 02-18-039, § 180-77-041, filed 8/26/02, effective 9/26/02. Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.410.010 and 28A.305.130 (1) through (4). 02-04-018, § 180-77-041, filed 1/24/02, effective 2/24/02. Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.305.130 (1) and (2),28A.410.010 . 00-18-064, § 180-77-041, filed 9/1/00, effective 10/2/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.410.010. 98-01-026, § 180-77-041, filed 12/8/97, effective 1/8/98; 97-04-085, § 180-77-041, filed 2/5/97, effective 3/8/97; 95-12-056, § 180-77-041, filed 6/2/95, effective 7/3/95.]