30 credits
Initial Practitioner License Requirements
Designed for students who seek a Director of Career and Technical Education license required for administering career programs and facilities. This addresses Indiana REPA license requirements.
Who can qualify?
Candidates must meet the following:
- Hold one (1) of the following licenses:
(A) A Proficient Practitioner license or Accomplished Practitioner license with at least one (1) of the content areas in career and technical education according to the Indiana Standard License Assignment Code.
(B) A Workplace Specialist II license with two (2) years of full-time teaching experience in an accredited vocational school in the grade level and vocational content area listed on the license.
(C) A Proficient or Accomplished Practitioner License in Building Level Administrator, Superintendent, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, or Director of Exceptional Needs.
(D) A Proficient or Accomplished Practitioner license that includes the content area of Business or Technology education.
2. Successfully complete the content for director of career and technical education.
3. Successfully complete a master’s degree.
Also required:
Verified valid CPR/Heimlich Maneuver certification and Suicide Prevention training through a state approved training program. Also, complete a required state criminal background check.
Required Courses
| EDAC 631 | Adult and Community Education | 3 |
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| EDAC 632 | Organizing Adult and Community Education Programs | 3 |
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| EDAD 600 | Introduction to Educational Leadership | 3 |
| EDAD 684 | Educational Finance and Ethics | 3 |
| EDAD 695 | Career/Technical Director Internship | 3 OR 6 |
| SPCE 637 | Special Education Administration and Law | 3 |
6 credits in EDAD 695 are required unless the student previously took an internship for another administrative license, in which case 3 credits may be required pending review.
3 credits from
| BED 625 | Problems and Issues | 3 |
| CTE 568 | Principles and Philosophy of Career and Technical Education | 3 |
| FCED 692 | Family and Consumer Sciences Education Program Implementation | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 3 |
3 credits from
| BED 593 | Philosophy, Organization, and Administration of CTE | 3 |
| CTE 569 | Organization and Coordination of Career and Technical Education | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 3 |
3 credits from
| BED 592 | Managing Work-Based Learning Programs | 3 |
| BED 622 | Instructional Materials and Strategies for Improvement of Instruction | 3 |
| CTE 552 | Strategies and Materials for Career and Technical Education | 3 |
| CTE 696 | Coordinating and Conducting Cooperative Education Programs | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 3 |
3 credits from
| BED 616 | Research Methods | 3 |
| EDPS 640 | Methodology of Educational and Psychological Research | 3 |
| FCS 697 | Research Methods in Family and Consumer Sciences | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 3 |
Total Credit Hours: 30