Section 260. Career and technical education – industrial cooperative training (add-on endorsement)

Endorsement requirements.

1. The candidate must have graduated from an approved teacher preparation program in industrial cooperative training (ICT); or

2. The candidate must have:

a. A Virginia Collegiate Professional or Postgraduate Professional License;

b. Completed two years or more of successful, full-time teaching experience;

c. Completed 15 semester hours in trade and industrial education coursework distributed in the following areas:

(1) Administration and coordination of ICT or equivalent cooperative education course;

(2) Methods and development of competency-based related instructional materials for ICT and implementation of a competency-based (CBE) curriculum;

(3) Vocational student organizations; and

(4) Development and utilization of directly related occupational materials; and

d. In the area of occupational experience, evidence of a minimum of two years or 4,000 hours of acceptable employment in a trade, technical, or industrial education subject area.

Historical Notes

Derived from Volume 23, Issue 25, eff. September 21, 2007.

Statutory Authority

§ 22.1-289.1 of the Code of Virginia.