Workforce Leadership Degree Program - Career & Technical Education Concentration

This certificate program is intended for industrial education instructors in secondary schools.

Students in this concentration prepare to become state-certified in order to maintain their teaching position in a career or technical education school. Applicants must be already employed in the school.

Courses focus on teaching, evaluation and classroom management skills. To qualify, an individual must document 2000 hours of prior work experience in an approved occupation. Three of the qualifying years of work experience must have occurred in the last five years of their work history.

The 64-hour Rank Change program requires 21 hours in the industrial education concentration, 24 hours in the Occupation/Specialization, and 20 hours in general education.

Graduates of this program receive Rank II from the Department of Education by completing the TC-1 form.