Director of Career and Technical Education
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.
Admission requirements
Applicants must meet the admission requirements of the Graduate School
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.
30 credits
Required Courses
| EDAC 631 | Adult and Community Education | 3 |
| | or | |
| EDAC 632 | Organizing Adult and Community Education Programs | 3 |
| 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 |
| BED 593 | Philosophy, Organization, and Administration of CTE | 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 |
| FCED 692 | Family and Consumer Sciences Education Program Implementation | 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 |