Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary
Special Requirements
EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
The following types of license endorsements are available for Vocational Teachers:
1) Vocational Education-Agricultural Education
2) Vocational Education-Business Education
3) Vocational Education-Health Occupations Education
4) Vocational Education-Industrial Cooperative Training
5) Vocational Education-Marketing Education
6) Vocational Education-Technology Education
7) Vocational Education-Trade and Industrial Education
8) Vocational Education-Vocational Special Needs
1) The applicant seeking endorsement in VOCATIONAL EDUCATION-AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION must complete a minimum of 39 semester hours of upper - level or graduate course work including at least three semester hours in each of the following: plant science, animal science, agricultural mechanics, agricultural economics and management, forestry/wildlife management, horticulture, and technology/microcomputer applications.
2) The applicant seeking endorsement in VOCATIONAL EDUCATION-BUSINESS EDUCATION must complete a minimum of 39 semester hours of upper - level or graduate course work including 6 semester hours in accounting, 3 semester hours in economics, 12 semester hours in business law, business principles, management, marketing, finance, or insurance, 3 semester hours in communications, 3 semester hours in business systems and procedures, 3 semester hours in computer applications, 3 semester hours in word processing and information systems, 3 semester hours in keyboarding, and 3 semester hours in supervised business experience.
3) The applicant seeking endorsement in VOCATIONAL EDUCATION-INDUSTRIAL COOPERATIVE TRAINING must complete a15 semester hours in trade and industrial education course work distributed in the following areas: administration and coordination of ICT or equivalent cooperative education course, methods and development of competency - based related instructional materials for ICT, vocational student organizations, implementation of a competency - based (CBE) curriculum, and development and utilization of directly related occupational materials.
4) The applicant seeking endorsement in VOCATIONAL EDUCATION-MARKETING EDUCATION must complete 30 semester hours in the following areas: marketing process and management, economics, merchandising and operations, advertising/sales promotion, personal selling, marketing math, communication theory and techniques, business ethics, human resources/training and development, international business/marketing, or marketing technology and a minimum of 1,000 clock hours in a marketing occupation within the last 5 years.
5) The applicant seeking endorsement in VOCATIONAL EDUCATION-TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION must complete a minimum of 39 semester hours of upper - level or graduate course work including 6 semester hours in technology and culture, 12 semester hours in technological foundations, 12 semester hours in technological processes, and 9 semester hours in technological systems OR a bachelors degree in one of the following fields of study: architecture, design, engineering, or physics and completed 18 semester hours of technology education credit course work.
Required Fees:
Praxis Fees
• Exam Fee:
• Out of state (based on the address written on the application form): $75
• License Renewal: $25
• Add or evaluate for an additional endorsement: $25
• Other actions on licenses (adding a degree/ duplicate licenses): $25
• Name change (only request): $25 (for duplicating the license)
• A cap of $50 will be assessed for a request for multiple actions on license.
For More Information, Contact:
Virginia Department Of Education
P.O. Box 2120
Richmond, VA 23218-2120
Phone: 804.225.2022
Phone: 800.292.3820
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/
The data sources for the information displayed here include: Virginia Career VIEW Research. (Using onet28)