Trade and Industrial Education
Certification Policies and Procedures
Effective October,1996:
Revised June 6, 2005
Revised August
18, 2006 for beginning teachers holding a Bachelor's degree in a related
field
- A Statement of Qualifications (Form 8)
must be on file
in the Trade and Industrial Education Office for all prospective teachers before any
application can be processed. The state staff will declare whether the prospective teacher
is certifiable.
- Applicants for the license/certificate in this program must receive a recommendation
from the State Program Manager in addition to the recommendation from an institution
approved to offer a Standard Teaching Certificate in Trade and Industrial Education.
APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATION*
- Submit an Application for Oklahoma School Certificate/Endorsement form, (License, Provisional
Level I, Provisional Level II, Standard), or Renewal of Standard form.
- Oklahoma law requires all individuals applying for their first
teaching certificate to have an FBI fingerprint and OSBI criminal
background check on file. More info on background
check/fingerprinting at
http://www.sde.state.ok.us/Teacher/ProfStand/pdf/FingerprintInfo.pdf.
- Submit a check for $10 for License, $30 for initial certificate, and $10 for renewal made
payable to the State Department of Education.
- Submit a current official transcript or official evidence of meeting all listed
requirements (for any initial issue or reissue of certificate).
- Send the above to:
The Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education
Trade and Industrial Education
1500 West Seventh Avenue
Stillwater, OK 74074-4364
*Official documentation must accompany each appropriate application.
Provisional Level I Certificate
- The applicant for this certificate must have earned a high school diploma or passed the
G.E.D. and submit a copy of the diploma/certificate.
- The applicant shall provide evidence of having three (3) years of appropriate
trade experience
(within the five [5] years preceding initial certification) in the field to be taught.
- The issuance of this certificate must be requested by the employing superintendent.
Part III of the application form must be signed by the "District
Superintendent or Official Representative." This signature goes in
the small box inside Part III.
- The applicant must complete the Career and Technology Education Orientation Training
Program (New Teacher Academy) during the first
sixty (60) days of the school year for which the original certificate is issued.
- The applicant must receive a recommendation for the Provisional Level I Certificate from
the State Program Manager as well as a statement from an institution
approved to offer a degree in Trade and Industrial Education that the applicant has an approved plan of
study for the Level II and the Standard Certificate.
- The Provisional Level I Certificate has a one-year (1) term of validity
from July 1 to June 30 of the following year..
- To have the Provisional Level I Certificate initially reissued, the holder must pass an
occupational competency examination approved by the
Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, Trade and
Industrial Education Division. (In many cases, this is one of the National Occupational Competency Testing Institute's
series of Skilled Worker exams, known as
NOCTI exams.)
- Provisional Level I Certificates may be successively reissued upon satisfactory
completion of not less than six (6) semester hours of credit toward standard certification
including the basic Trade and Industrial Education courses during the one year term of
validity. A request by the employing superintendent, a recommendation from the State
Program Administrator, and an official transcript from the institution of higher education
with which the applicant has filed a plan of study, must accompany the application.
- All Provisional I requirements should be completed within five years.
Provisional Level II Certificate
- The applicant must have completed all of the requirements for Level I Certificate.
- The applicant must have completed forty-eight (48) semester hours of approved credit of
which up to twenty-four (24) semester hours may be earned through passing an
occupational competency examination
approved by the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education.
- When submitting the application for the initial Provisional II
certificate, Part II of the form must be completed and
signed by the appropriate university official. Consult with your
T&I teacher educator to determine where the application goes for this
signature.
- The Provisional Level II Certificate has a five-year (5) term of validity.
- The Provisional Level II Certificate may be reissued if the certificate holder has
completed fifteen (15) semester credit hours on approved plan of study during the
five-year (5) term of validity as documented by an official transcript.
Standard Certificate
- The applicant shall be a graduate of an accredited four (4)-year college or university
and shall hold the standard baccalaureate degree.
- The approved program for the Standard Certificate in Trade and Industrial Education
requires forty (40) approved semester hours of credit in the area of specialization.
Twenty-four (24) of these hours may be earned by passing an
occupational competency examination
(NOCTI) approved by the
Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education.
- Specific coursework may count toward completion of requirements in professional
education or specialization; however, no coursework may be counted for both professional
education and specialization.
- The Standard Certificate has a five-year (5) term of validity.
Renewal of Standard Certificate (Effective January, 1989)
The applicant must have three (3) or more years of experience during the life of the
certificate in an accredited school or program approved by the Oklahoma Department of
Career and Technology Education as a teacher, supervisor, administrator, or combination
thereof, and must meet all other requirements.
The director of Teacher Certification of the State Board of Education is authorized to
reissue the Provisional Level I, Provisional Level II, and Standard Certificates when
standards are met and approved by the State Program Manager of Trade and Industrial
Education and the institution of higher education with which the applicant has filed a
plan of study.
Certification and/or Recertification
For certification and/or recertification, in addition to the above
requirements, all teachers must attend the annual Summer Conference and
any other called professional meetings or workshops. A telephone call of explanation
followed by a letter to the T&I office is required if the teacher misses a meeting.
ABSENCES MUST BE APPROVED BY THE T&I STATE PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR.
It is the responsibility of the teacher to keep his/her teaching certificate
current.
It is recommended that the teachers keep themselves up to date in their trades by
working in industry a minimum of one summer during each five-year (5) period.
Effective in 2006: A
teacher holding a bachelor's degree in an area related* to the subject
they teach upon initial application for T&I certification, upon
satisfactory completion of the NOCTI or approved substitute and the
"Basic 15" core T&I hours, being admissible to Teacher Education and
having the recommendation of the University, and being employed teaching
an approved T&I program, may receive a Standard Trade
and Industrial Education Certificate.
*Definition of Related area is
at the sole discretion of the T&I State Program Administrator.
In practice, a degreed teacher should follow the Provisional I plan
until the NOCTI and Basic 15 are complete, then make application through
the University for a standard certificate.
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